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.
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.
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”.