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I continue to be both amused and furious about the fact that I live in the country with the worst teenage pregnancy rate in the whole of Europe. It annoys me that so many kids are so happy to throw their lives away before they've even begun to live them. It infuriates me because everyone knows how to stop them doing it, but no-one is willing to enforce the solution.

Statutory rape. That's a crime you commit every time you have sex with someone below the legal age of sexual consent. Why isn't there a number of people up on this charge at least equivalent to the number of under-age girls that are getting pregnant? Probably because nobody really cares.

There are any number of fixes to the teenage pregnancy issue (and I'll list a few of them in a second), but unfortunately, we all know that the introduction of any one of them will have the Daily Mail reading, Big Brother watching, tax sapping masses frothing at the mouth and wielding their pitchforks screaming civil injustice, discrimination, communism and other words they don't quite understand, and only use because they read them in a tabloid column after some ambitious journalist had decided to punch above his weight by dropping some big, clever words into his story to make it sound smarter.

The bottom line is that the national good should come before the wants of the people themselves. I don't care if people want to live in squalor, spawn children they are intellectually and financially incapable of supporting and lean on the state (and by proxy, the entire tax paying public) to give them an easy life. I don't care if they don't like the idea of having the mana torn from their self-serving fingers.

The state aids these reprobates through misguided pity. I say that their pity is misplaced. I say pity the working class man who struggles to pay his own bills, and is obliged to pay taxes which go towards houses for which everything is provided. Houses populated by unkempt families consisting of a 20-something woman, who showers herself with designer clothes and enough jewelry to burden the necks of an entire Brooklyn ghetto and her seven fatherless, unguided and poorly clothed children.

The children will ultimately grow with the mind that working is not necessary, as the state can provide all. They will perpetuate the problem, as will their children after them.

Where is the justice there for the hard-working, tax-paying public? The tax-paying public that cannot afford to own their own homes, that live under a burden of debt forced on them by an over-zealous and increasingly expensive economy.

No. The system as it stands is failing those who contribute the most to the government's coffers. This must not be allowed to continue.

But what do you change, to make a change for the better? At which point do you assault the problem? No government can solve a social issue and expect to be gifted another term in office. Democracy is flawed enough to ensure that truly beneficial change guarantees political suicide. But someone has to take the fall. Someone has to make the change for the greater good. No matter the cost.

Elminate child benefits for having more than one child. Having one could be a mistake, and through it, one can learnt he cost to one's life and finances. A second is either premeditated or just stupid. Neither should be rewarded with cash. A third child, and any benefits still being paid out for the first child should be revoked. Further children should incur tax penalties for the added burden on the NHS and public school systems.

Prosecute anyone found to have committed statutory rape. Offer rewards for forwarding cases if necessary. The message must get out. If you have sex with someone not old enough to consent to it, you will be punished. That goes for both male and female offenders.

Communicate that the burden of sex education lies with the parents, not the schools. Spot test children at appropriate ages for the required knowledge, and fine parents that have not passed on the required level of education. Consequent under-age sex offences and/or underage pregnancy should then result in full culpability falling onto the parents, who should be fined, permanently tax-burdened and added to a poor-parenting blacklist, preventing them from caring for other people's children or having more children of their own.

Ban anyone under the age of 17 from having children. Compulsory abortion and heavy fines for anyone under this age falling pregnant. There's an invasion of human rights for you, and I really don't give a damn.

Force prospective parents to undergo specialist parental training. Anyone wishing to have a child must complete and pass a course in basic child psychology, and good rearing. A pass allows for a child licence, which allows one to have a child, or care for someone elses. Logistical nightmare? Perhaps. Invasion of human rights? Most certainly. Provision to stop idiot, uncaring parents from inadvertently creating the next Ted Bundy? Fucking too right.

The cycle must end. People need to take responsibility, and be held accountable for their actions. And if they don't want to play ball, then they should be made to pay.

There can be no softly, softly approach here. Mark my words. The idiot masses can only evolve into an acceptable and value-adding portion of society if the supply of their bastard offspring and the handouts that feed them are cut off. Abruptly.



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Copyright Insane Bartender 2005-05-31 1:52 p.m.

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