Should The Government Pay Students Not To Fornicate?
06.24.09 (4:26 pm) [edit]
A state-sponsored pregnancy prevention program at the University of North Carolina is paying girls $1.00 a day not to get pregnant.
Since it takes two to make a baby, shouldn't young men be getting this WELFARE also?
If it was reversed, wouldn't NOW nags be crying discrimination?
Some will argue there really isn't anyway to prove boys are complying with the program.
But the same is true with girls up until the time they either have the baby or one notices the bulge in the belly.
So, when this happens, will program administrators subtract back to around the time when the contract was broken and demand any compensation from that point forward be returned to the program's coffers?
How about, instead of handing out money, scaring both boys and girls into keeping their pants on and legs together by emphasizing what will happen to them should they catch an incurable disease or the hardship that will result from having a baby before they get married?
Contrary to the headshrinkers, fear can be a good motivator.
by Frederick Meekins
Since it takes two to make a baby, shouldn't young men be getting this WELFARE also?
If it was reversed, wouldn't NOW nags be crying discrimination?
Some will argue there really isn't anyway to prove boys are complying with the program.
But the same is true with girls up until the time they either have the baby or one notices the bulge in the belly.
So, when this happens, will program administrators subtract back to around the time when the contract was broken and demand any compensation from that point forward be returned to the program's coffers?
How about, instead of handing out money, scaring both boys and girls into keeping their pants on and legs together by emphasizing what will happen to them should they catch an incurable disease or the hardship that will result from having a baby before they get married?
Contrary to the headshrinkers, fear can be a good motivator.
by Frederick Meekins
posted by: PastorDave (reply)
post date: 06.29.09 (12:25 pm)
Sure, there is a place for a good dose of fear . But, even knowing the adverse consequences, a lot of teens will engage in unprotexted sex. It's a sad reality. These guys paying not to do it- its a desperate attempt by some well-meaning group. Appealing to greed to stop fornication- if it works, it would be a worthy investment. I'm just not sure there is a simple solution. Attitudes about sex need to be adjusted, but the message is so strongly enforced in the media and culture. Accessible birth control may be part of the answer. Abstinence education works, in my opinion, at least as well as any of these other liberal solutions.
A quarter between the knees? Teaching teenage boys to be scared of girls? I don't know. As a pastor, in my church I make an appeal to the higher nature of teenagers, and dare them to not let the media and peer pressure force them into a lifestyle they know to be second-rate when Christ offers something better. Some follow, and I believe to be better because of it.
