Posted on 03/17/2010 1:22:26 PM PDT by Niuhuru
Children who have sex under the age of 16 should be prosecuted for breaking the law, a senior Tory has said. Shadow children's minister Tim Loughton held out the prospect of criminalising teenage mothers as he warned there were now no consequences for those who had irresponsible underage sex.
'[It is] against the law to get pregnant at 14. How many kids get prosecuted for having underage sex? Virtually none.
'Where are the consequences of breaking the law and having irresponsible underage sex? There aren't any.' Asked if was advocating more prosecutions, Mr Loughton said: 'We need to be tougher. Without sounding horribly judgmental, it is not a good idea to be a mum at 14. 'You are too young, throwing away your childhood and prospects of developing a career.'
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Their culture encourages it every other way, maybe they need to start trying to undo that idiotic cultural rot first.
I’ve got a better idea. Quit subsidizing(welfare). If you want more of something, subsidize it. If you want less, tax it.
If it's tough love they want, they could start by rolling back the extremely generous welfare entitlements that practically encourage teenage motherhood in Britain as a lucrative career choice.
“... throwing away your childhood and prospects of developing a career.”
What if you don’t want a career? What if the thing you want to do is get pregnant?
Or should we ask the government what it is we should want out of life?
Criminalizing pregnancy will never be the right thing to do.
This will never happen. The Feminists will go absolutely ape doody if this is tried.
The Leftists and Muslims want to lower the age of consent and sexualize girls at younger and younger ages.
The UN Rights of the Child convention could be used to criminalize any parent who tries to prevent their daughter(s) from being sexually promiscuous at any age. And Muslims could use it to liberalize the laws for consent and marriage at younger and younger ages.
And then there is the big businesses of Planned Parenthood and associated industries who stand to make even more money off the aborted babies that will result from the increased promiscuity.
And neither will robbing third parties by force to pay for it.
It doesn’t appear that an increased incidence of cervical cancer among women who “start” young is scaring them. Maybe make Mom & Dad support the grandchild...no woofer for anyone under 21.
Well, it’s either increase the birth rate or increase immigration into Britain.
Pick your poison.
“make Mom & Dad support the grandchild...no woofer for anyone under 21”
That might actually end up eliminating teen pregnancies or motherhood for that matter.
I know I'm reading your reply incorrectly...are you implying that welfare is a requirement to motherhood? That would be news to the vast majority of people I know.
Gee, whatever happened to “show me your license; a drivers license is your learners permit, but 15’ll get me 20?”
Went the same way as Barbara Billingsley or Donna Reed “sleeping” in twin beds, instead of in the same bed as their TV “husbands”.
No, what I meant is that make it so the parents of the pregnant teens have to support the kid financially or otherwise. Then the parents will start making SURE their sons and daughters aren’t screwing around, monogomously or otherwise.
“And neither will robbing third parties by force to pay for it.”
On that we agree.
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