[Tax-chick]

The question I want answered is how do we go about re-stigmatizing ANYTHING in the era of self-esteem, where there are no winners or losers and everyone gets a trophy for participation?

I'd like to know that, too. In my opinion, a start would be to attached the financial consequences of behavior to the persons engaging in the behavior. It might not be "moral stigma," but it would be "getting hungry and need to pay some rent."

[allmendream]

LOL!

Yeah, nothing like subsidizing unwed motherhood.

Talk about a cultural thing!

They used to send preggers to the bad kid school. Then someone sued, and a lib judge decided they could stay.

Pregnancy is culturally contagious. One preggers gal roaming the High School halls and suddenly all the gals of her culture are thinking “why not me?”.

When I went to High School there were a few gals who got pregnant (and didn't abort).

During my sisters time at the same High School some twelve and fourteen years later, they were the ONLY ones from their region (about 20-30 gals) who DIDN'T get pregnant and have a kid while in or just out of High School.

Thanks judge!