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Originally posted by techweenie
Some of you guys are talking like Dr. Laura, the antichrist.
Take a deep breath and think, for one minute, if you possibly can, about the child. Imagine how damaging to the child it would be for his/her only parent to be "shunned."
These sound to me more like Islamic fundamentalist values being spouted, not Christian values. The child needs the support of any and all near. The mother does not need to be 'shunned' but assisted. But what do I know? I'm just an atheist.
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Weenie, I share your sentiments, but consider the following: A society passes along its value system in part by stigmatizing bad behavior. The reason that teenage pregnancy was not a serious problem prior to the 60's, for example, was because unwed teenage girls were harshly stigmatized for getting knocked-up. Once the 60's revolution made it "no big deal" to get pregnant out of wedlock, it became an epidemic, particularly in the inner cities, where the rate among african american girls is over 50%. If society's response to teenage pregnancy and single-women sperm bank partons is "ok, that's a nice life choice. How can we help?", then we, as a society, are going to get
much more of the behavior we don't necessarily want to encourage.