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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Libs don’t believe parents should have any responsibility.

Do they ever hold parents responsible? No.[/quote]

How would you hold parents responsible? I'm seriously curious and open to ideas. Parents [i]should [/i]be responsible, but I'm not sure how best to do it.

Get child welfare involved? As the article says, that was the plan. The Child and Family Services Agency was supposed to investigate, which seems appropriate. But that "child welfare staff [said] parents were skeptical about cooperating with an agency that had the power to pry their children from them ... It’s like the police showing up.” So maybe it would be better to start with school staff?

Would threatening to throw parents in jail work? In a few cases, yes, but again parents would do their best not to help, and mostly kids would be worse off if their parents actually went to jail.

What are the "tough" options that would actually help?[/quote]

Mandatory parenting classes and finally putting parents in jail. [/quote]

For me, it’s two pronged: provide free contraceptives mailed in to all the addresses of low income families where there are 9yo girls and older; 2) stop indirect benefits to parents that are tied to the number of kids. Feed the kids, take them away from parents if they are homeless but don’t provide housing vouchers or monetary help 
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Just to buttress this, the Colorado program that provided free contraception at high schools cut unplanned pregnancies by something like 80%[/quote]

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