Tuesday, May 24, 2005

welcome home...

Arriving back in the country from a short holiday, I was greeted by the front page of the Sun depicting 3 children, all of whom had children of their own. The scandal here, according to Murdoch's rag, was that "we" are paying about 31,000pounds a year for these children. Hmmm. That's about 10,000pounds per child. I don't have children, and, if all my planning and precautions hold out, never will. However 10,000pounds doesn't sound like a huge amount to raise a child for a year. What does the Sun expect - that these children (the babies as well as the child mothers) should starve?
There are greater scandals here. Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation has been raking in huge profits, yet, thanks to imaginative accounting which is, sadly, still legal, hasn't paid tax in years. He has robbed the country of well over 1million pounds. Isn't that a bigger scandal than people claiming benefits to survive?
And what of these under-age mothers? Quite clearly they didn't understand what they were doing, and didn't appreciate the consequences. If the fathers were of a similar age, the same can be said of them. But we live in a society in which children seem to be sexualised at an early age. One of the main offenders here is the Sun newspaper - always willing to print pictures of scantily clad teenage girls to titillate their borderline-paedophile readership, who then demand blood when anyone is caught acting on this.
So what's the answer? Better sex education, better social support. Nothing easy. Nothing the Sun would like.

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