Reply #21: The leaders don't want people having sex. [View All]

[JDPriestly]

But the people want to have sex but no abortions. I think the original post has a very good idea. Mothers need help with medical problems and with providing for their babies' most basic needs. They get that help in other civilized countries. I know. I've lived there. New mothers and fathers especially first time mothers and fathers need the advice of pediatricians and psychologists on how to raise their new babies. They need to be told from the get-go that you should not leave a baby to cry for long periods, that you should never whip a child or slap a child or do a lot of other physically abusive things to a child, that you should not neglect children, that you must praise a child in order to develop the child's self-esteem. You would be shocked at how many American parents abuse their children because they really don't know better. Their parents abused them, and they think it is normal. We need universal healthcare in some form at least for children to the age of 18 in order to handle these issues. The appropriate people to give sex education are parents and doctors, not schoolteachers. Doctors should be talking to kids in early adolescence about the dangers of sex out of marriage or committed relationships, about young pregnancies, etc. Kids without insurance only see a doctor when they are really sick or injured. Every child who is born in the U.S. should see a doctor at regular intervals in the child's life. Other countries, including most of, if not all of, our NATO allies provide this kind of care. Let's reduce the number of abortions. While we are out it, let's go back to providing a guaranteed minimal income for each child so that no woman has an abortion because she feels she just can't afford to take care of a child or can't take care of a child on her own.