One of the woes of getting older is that your memory isn't what is used to be. But didn't I recall an old slogan from my youth: "Every child a wanted child"? This was the war cry of the proponents of birth control and, by extension, abortion. The only children born after a few years (or decades) of free contraception and abortion would be genuinely loved and cared for by parents who had deliberately chosen to have them. Well, unfortunately, there seem to have been a few hiccups along the way. One of the most recent and extreme examples concerned a particularly unlucky 9 year old girl from Yorkshire. Shannon Matthews was one of 7 children who her "mother" had conceived by 5 men. So far, so normal British underclass. What made this unusual was that her "mother" cooked up a particularly ludicrous plot to have her daughter kidnapped and then "discovered" in return for a large reward. She and her dim witted accomplice now face long prison sentences. Somehow the message of only having children you really want fails to penetrate all parts of British and American society......
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Ah the examples this reminds me of. Here in the States there are all kinds of examples of the kids that are slain by parents or the kids that are extreme problems and are dumped off at one place or another. Recently, Nebraska passed a law so that new born babies could be dropped off at hospitals without the parents getting into trouble for abandoning them. Well, what happened was that parents from other states started to take advantage of it. But not just with newborns, but with teenagers. After months of this the Neb. legislature changed the law.
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