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Originally Posted by host
This is not a simple problem. It is a national disgrace and conservatism sermonizing in a right wing financial publication does not provide a satisfactory or a fair explanation to inequality of wealth in America.
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The articles you reference have many good points. I think the following has a lot to do with the problem:
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After all this time, we still need to learn to value women for who they are. To help women to realize that value, to find routes to self-esteem besides reproduction. Women need to be able to be sexual on their own terms, even to discover what those terms are. And they need freedom from judgment for being sexual, but choosing not to be mothers just yet.
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As long as young women and men continue to want to have babies with no way to support them the problem will continue. Access to abortion and birth control will have little effect if they want to reproduce. Somehow society has to try to convince/enable them to feel self-esteem and that having babies is not in their best interest.
What is it that makes young men/boys want to impregnate young women/girls when they have no intention of supporting their babies? What is it that makes young women/girls want to give birth under these circumstances?