What is it with these poor families?
They can't afford to feed themselves so they have another baby?
You see them out there, those kids, the 2 year-olds are being babysat by the 5 year-olds who might be watched sometimes by an 8 year-old,
meantime the 14 year-olds are busy tearing the door off your neighbor's house.
Where are the parents?
Oh wait, I think I heard one, it's like the call of the loon echoing over a summer lake only it's profanity from a drunken mouth.
We can't do anything because they're parents and parenthood is sacred.
Everyone has a government sanctioned right to experiment with the minds of their own genetic effluent even if they aren't willing to put any effort into it.
Of course that's all well and fine, you get them the first 20 years and we get them for the next 60! Gee thanks.
Can anyone say "sterilization"?
I mean if we put half the effort into finding safe reversible sterilization procedures that we put into viagra, what couldn't we do?
Just imagine, mandatory temporary sterilization for everyone, either at puberty or maybe after they've spawned one carpet crawler already?
Make them earn the right to pop babies, take courses, earn a living, pass some damn tests!
The way it is, smart people choose to limit their breeding while stupid and deranged people are popping off children like thief factories in full production.
You see these houses, doors and windows askew, siding peeling, dirt and trash for a lawn, one pathetic shrub struggling to grace the rotting picket fences. Out the doors stream an endless run of snot nosed, profanity spewing, fist raising youth who tromp in their runners and boots all over the city screaming that they've been cheated and they have a right to take from the hard working folks around them and where will that take us?
Is this evolution of the species?
Natural selection?
Stupidity used to be fatal!
It's criminal to bring new people into the world in poverty and being too screwed up to properly parent them. I realize there are plenty of impoverished parents who can and do properly parent their children but these are not people who had kids just to improve their welfare allowance. There are poor people who had kids by accident or in spite of being poor, or who were not poor when they had children but fell on hard times but the women who are single and on welfare and deliberately bring a child into the world primarily to enhance their income are to my mind no less criminal than people who abuse children. If I had my druthers women who are on welfare (and men if they come up with it) would have to take the monthly birth control shot in order to receive their cheque unless a doctor can either verify they're sterile (like tubal ligation or otherwise) or a doctor recommends against it due to health reasons. Of course then we'd see girls going off it for a couple months to get the birth control out of their system, living on what they could probably live on if they wanted to, getting pregnant and then going back on it, but still I think it would reduce the numbers of mindless baby factories that turn out hungry little thieves who grow up to be drug addicts!