Why is there not a movement for the parents of teenage mothers to sue the teenage father’s for child support and force them to take joint custody? In the cities, most people don’t have the money for a lawyer, so that I understand, but it’s not just minority girls getting pregnant. There are teen mothers everywhere, and something like 6 out of 10 teen fathers disappearing. Being a minor shouldn’t preclude you from taking care of your child. That certainly doesn’t work with the mothers. If it were more difficult for the fathers, if they actually had to give something up, they might think twice about not using protction or having premarital sex.
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There are times when I disagree with you, and times when I just think about you and what you advocate. There are also times when I wish I had written this post, I agree with it so much. I have actually spent time and money (in futility) trying to make such a law come to pass. Amen sister, Amen!!!!!
Nice to have you back, suing is not teh way forward, maybe in America but forced responsibility is a nice idea but hard to work in practice, esp. with young fathers having no money.
Daniel – I with there was a way to make people feel social responsibility without legality, but I’m not sure it exists here.
Three Score – I have so many students who end up on their own and in poverty for years because they got pregnant at a young age. That is a problem in itself, and one that is not solved with abstinence education, but they boys seem to go on and have normal lives doing pretty much whatever they please while the girls struggle for years in a variety of ways. I’ve had 18 year olds on the verge of breakdowns because they can’t get their child’s father to even buy diapers. Besides that, it adds to the cultural norm of these girls not feeling like they can rely on anyone.
I suppose that’s my point, forced good acts are just that, the real challenge is to educate and raise the bar but fundementally, the amjority of teenage parents are from poor backgrounds, poverty breeds a certain level of ignorance, hopelessness and sexual attitudes that are bound up in self-esteem issues and ideas of belonging.
The legal bit is the plaster on the sucking chest wound.
Let’s deal with the chest wound.
So long as you force the girl to have the child if the father insists.
What?