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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One thing that baffles me in this thread is a repeated complaint that the woman "allowed" her developmentally disabled daughter to get pregnant.

Are we forgetting how much we as a society "allow" access to family planning be cut off to large swaths of the population - paricularly the poor?

I can't get over the way the focus has been on critiquing the life choices of people with very few options, say nothing of decision-making which is a learned skill they haven't been taught. Then that dearth of very basic life skills are passed down to the next generation, who likely face trauma-filled childhoods followed by adulthods dependent on public assistance and very likely substance abuse.

At what point do we stop moralizing about bad decisions and start looking at policy that can break this cycle? For the most part, our culture and politics are to blame. Provide free and ample access to birth control. Teach life skills in every school curriculum. Provide pre- and post-natal care as a minimum-level requirement for pregnant women.

We're just creating zombies. [/quote]

Please.

The mother had every chance to keep her daughter from getting pregnant int he first place, and failed.

Does it hurt to take so little personal responsibility for your bad parenting decisions?[/quote]

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