This is crazy! Who will raise the unwanted? [msn.com]
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.The real question isn't - who will raise the unwanted - the real question is - do we want them to?
SLBushway
Level 7
Jan 8, 2019
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What are you saying? If a child is allowed to continue it's life then someone has to raise it. It would be nice if some one with a good value system does it instead of a possibly drug addicted or mentally unstable parent.
@IAJO163 Before I answer your question - answer mine - have you been through the foster care system? Do you know the average age of a child that becomes a ward of the state? Do you know what is required to be a foster parent? Do you know the age that a child reaches where he/she becomes undesirable? You don't likely know the answers to any of this and so yeah, the question becomes should we trust the state when the parents fail? In a majority of the cases - it was best to leave them with the dysfunctional parents - it's better than nothing at all.
@SLBushway Actually I know the system quite well as many of my relatives were foster children. I wasn't referring to the state caring for them. I was referring to young irresponsible and possibly addicted mothers being forced to raise children that they don't want. The result is these gun toting thugs that are being raised without fathers and proper guidance in life, shooting each other up and creating havoc in their communities.
One variation to the song "Ain't We Got Fun" (1921) includes the lyric, "The rich get richer and the poor get children" (if I remember correctly, that variation is in the novel "The Great Gatsby", which seems even more relevant today than it was prescient in 1925). That pattern seems to have held for 100 years. The rich have the means to quietly get abortions, even if they have to fly to another state. The poor have fewer to zero options. (I'm still resentful that my Catholic grandmother had 11 children she really had no chance of taking proper care of, simply because she was Catholic. My mom and a couple of her brothers mostly made it despite those circumstances. The rest did not, and most of their children did not either. The poverty cycle is crippling.)
greyeyed123
Level 7
Jan 6, 2019
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I tell people that the easiest to do in the world is have sex. Anyone can do it so there will always be children. Raising them is the challenge.
These kinds of laws are unconscionable.
Why would you force someone to carry to term? The harm that can come to the potential resulting child is enormous.
Why would you force someone to carry to term? The harm to the full grown, fully actualized human being is real, potentially deadly, and ridiculous that anyone thinks they have a right to tell a mentally competent adult what to do with their body.
CommonHuman
Level 7
Jan 6, 2019
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There seems to be a plethora of young thug-like unwanted children in the world that were raised by parents that didn't know how to raise them or didn't want to raise them and they perpetuate a religious reason to validate anti abortion without a solution for the outcome? God will fix it? When has that ever worked?
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