Another triumph for choice
Liberal distopians must be delighted with the latest successes to have emerged from their glorious campaign against feminity, marriage, family, self-restraint, self-reliance et al.
Three sisters have each had children while still at school, the youngest at the age of 12.
Jemma, Jade and Natasha Williams, who receive benefits totalling more than £31,000 a year, are raising their babies alone after they became pregnant within three months of each other.
The sisters, aged 12, 14 and 16 when they gave birth, live in Derby with their twice-divorced mother, who holds the education system responsible for their plight ...
Jemma said: “I didn’t tell anyone because I was too scared and didn’t know what to do. I only told my boyfriend, who was 14 at the time, but I didn’t want to have an abortion.
“He was my first love. He was great to start with, but he’s got a new girlfriend now” ...
Jade said she had been determined not to do the same, after seeing all the dirty nappies and her sister enduring sleepless nights. But she became pregnant after “a one-night stand”.
She said: “It was just one of those things really. I wasn’t using contraception and I suppose I just thought it wouldn’t happen to me” ...
Natasha said her pregnancy, while unplanned, had pleased her. “I don’t really want to be anything but a full-time mum,” she said.
The father, 38, came to see the child “from time to time”, but “he’s Asian and still lives with his parents, so they don’t know about me or Amani”.
How, then, do we get out of this mess?
Posted by Phil Peterson on Mon, 23 May 2005 14:10 | #
It seems clear to me that Britain’s underclass is in far worse shape than similarly placed classes in almost any nation on the Continent (depsite the fact that almost every nation on the Continent has a more generous welfare state).
I believe the fundamental process which many have missed is the manner in which Britain’s lower classes degraded under the influence of breakdown of the codes that were once imposed by Britain’s elite. Once that imposition of codes of behaviour came to be associated with “oppression”, there was nothing left to replace it with. And with the left preaching “free love”, the lower orders degenerated to a point where one has to rub one’s eyes in disbelief to see what is happening.
Ultimately, there is no substitute for Christianity. The slow death of Christianity in this country has brought us to this sorry pass.