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"This is a social catastrophe"

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Dick Whitman, Feb 25, 2012.

  1. YGBFKM

    YGBFKM Guest

    How about personal responsibility across the board? Or is that too conservative?
     
  2. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    For sure. But how do we set policy to facilitate it?
     
  3. YGBFKM

    YGBFKM Guest

    We don't. I was mocking the idea that we should pick sides when it comes to promoting something so fundamental.
     
  4. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    We don't?

    And trust ... what exactly, to stop this allegedly corrosive trend? Magic?
     
  5. dooley_womack1

    dooley_womack1 Well-Known Member

    Single parenthood cuts across all strata. And all strata could stand to receive a better foundation of the most prudent, responsible way to live life. That's the only solution. And "use a condom" or "take your birth control pills as directed" can be as prudent as "don't have sex"
     
  6. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    Until evolution changes it, the condition of the girl being the one getting pregnant renders this argument pretty much irrelevant. You can teach it to your own kids and you can even emphasize it on a grand societal scale, and that's great, but the high school guy is never going to experience the situation as the high school girl would. It isn't his life that gets physically put on hold for a year.
     
  7. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    Tailor the message to the audience?
     
  8. dooley_womack1

    dooley_womack1 Well-Known Member

    It's a household-to-household, hand-to-hand task.
     
  9. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    So live and let live? That's not working.
     
  10. waterytart

    waterytart Active Member

    Ages, also. I wouldn't expect the reasons a single, pregnant 16/26/36-year-old keeps the baby to be the same.
     
  11. YGBFKM

    YGBFKM Guest

    It would help if talking about personal responsibility wasn't repeatedly shouted down as partisan and obtrusive. Personal responsibility wasn't always such a divisive issue. But we live in a society in which a lot of people who have the power to promote it benefit greatly from its absence.
     
  12. dooley_womack1

    dooley_womack1 Well-Known Member

    Only way it's gonna work. Not that the birth of a human should necessarily be something to revile; the emphasis is on people having the values to raise the child right. And that goes for double-parent households as well. Hard to say that those type of households are necessarily doing a bang-up job in absolute terms.
     
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