@KatawaGrey Ok, fair enough. Until this right to decide person has a baby they cannot afford to feed and are unable to care for it properly and set it up with all the dynamics that cre linked to criminal behaviour. If you can find it, I’d recommend that you read Dr. David Lykken and his ideas. he has the numbers and infromation, but the bottom line if that single parents, even good ones, cannot provide all the needs os a child, partly by having to work and beig gone so much, and partly because part of the equation is missing: the other parent in a loving, financially stable relationship. Lets just be up front about this, ok? A teenage child should NOT have a baby. She is not equipped emotionally, mentally, or financially. Period. The baby now becomes a burden of the state. The state does NOT see to the care of the baby personally, it gives minimal assistance to the mother who, let’s face it, has not grown up, may or may not have some support system in place, has not finished her basic education, cannot support the child….oh, I can’t get into all this.
Please know that I do not make frivolous or off the cuff statements here. I say what I say after having looked, thought, studied and researched.
That said, I welcome your differing opinion, as always.