[pinochet]

Interestingly, the South Korean government, which actively encourages prejudice against single mothers, is often complaining that the birth rate in South Korea is too low, and is calling on its people to have more children. South Korea has a lower birthrate than White Americans and most European countries.

I believe that morality and family values are important. But we must not be too harsh in judging people who fall short of our moral ideals.

[SaraJohnson]

If you are willing to research the results of single motherhood, you might decide the answer is to encourage families to be bigger rather than to encourage the rabbit breeding of mindless, amoral sluts.

South Korea could offer benefits to large families if they want a larger population.

[spintreebob]

Incomplete data results in bogus logic.
Even 100% of 2% is less than 50% of 40%.
The estimates are that in the US there is 1 abortion for every 2 illegitimacies. So the correlation is just opposite of what the author claims.

In short, we are presented with bad data and then given a bogus choice based on that bad data.

Next, the author will tell us that gay couples produce no illegitimate births and no abortions and therefore they are superior.

[montag813]

What ever happened to the Bob Grant Mandatory Sterilization Act? Seemed to be a modest proposal that could have worked.

[Yaelle]

Abortion is far worse. There are no illegitimate children, only unfit parents.

Infertility, even among people in their 30s, is at an all time high. The reproductive system seems to be one of the most sensitive to environmental conditions, and things are not good lately.

Babies conceived should be born and given for adoption. So many infertile couples want them.

[Wuli]

We should NOT accept that we can only choose between greater acceptance of ‘illegitimate’ births OR abortions, as our ONLY choice.

Believing that is our only choice, refusing to accept discouragement of either as a valid choice, makes the only two options given in that choice dual self-fulfilling prophecies - more illegitimate births AND more abortions, not less of one and more of the other.

On the other side, ALL children deserve the same respect of THEIR innocence and born to a single mother or not, THEY deserve to be treated no differently than their peers. That means that whatever discouragement towards out-of-wedlock births is socially appropriate, those policies should not morph into "discouragement" towards the child.

[donna]

So you’re saying women murder their unborn out of shame?

Doesn’t the example of the USA prove you wrong?

Women murder their unborn to spite the fathers or just for convenience.

[Chickensoup]

Both are terrible for our society.

Women alone bringing up children is a pathology on the culture.

Babies killed through abortion strikes the moral fabric of the culture.

Keeping procreation within marriage and keeping the other two options beyond the pale, with adoption as an alternative is probably the best way to handle a difficult situation.

The other more foundational issue is the culture the young people are swimming in. Without a moral and strict culture that does not treat people like meat none of the above converstion means anything,

[Melas]

There is even more to it than you may at first imagine. If we’re going to have this conversation, we’re also going to have to understand that the suicide rate in South Korea is 10% higher for men than the USA and 500% what it is for women in the USA.

Rigid societies like you see in South Korea, Singapore, Japan etc, take a heavy toll in more ways than one. We as a country, as a culture, do not want to emulate them.