Another crackpot Labour initiative attacks family values
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Dear Chris Bryant,
Evidently the desire to release stupid initiatives is spreading like a nasty virus through the Labour Party. It now seems that you honestly believe giving sex education to 9-year-olds is a good idea – a truly chilling thought.
It is quite clear that the Labour government has no idea how to prevent teenage pregnancies. If you think that your approach to sex education is the correct one, surely the statistics would make you think twice. Up to 20 teenagers are pregnant at any one time in some schools, which is a shocking assessment of the Government’s woeful decisions about how to tackle this issue. Even though you admit that teenage pregnancy leads to “vicious cycle of under-achievement, benefit dependency, ill health, lack of aspiration, poor parenting and child poverty”, you still react in a classic Labour fashion and throw money at a problem while releasing a pointless initiative aimed at telling 9-year-olds about sex, which is far more likely to increase teenage pregnancy than to reduce it.
Your lack of respect for the newborn children caught up in this vicious cycle makes me sick. You are destroying children’s lives before they have even had a change to begin. For once, why don’t you deal with the causes of the issue – family breakdown, a failing benefits system, and tolerance of this behaviour when it should be shamed, not supported.
In disgust,
A.Tory
Witanagemot Blogs
Why don’t they highlight the dangers and the disadvantages of getting pregnant? We live in a celebrity driven society – even more so for a teenage girl. Celebrities are shown popping out kids and having no effect on the figure and certainly not on the salary.
This gives kids no idea of the true costs: physical, emotional or financial, of having a child. Perhaps more concentration on stretch marks, figure loss and other less appealing factors of pregnancy might just influence teenagers that have been brought up in such a vanity obsessed culture.
Failing that: compulsory chastity belts for girls and a similarly uncomfortable contraption for boys too!
Can’t see the Labour government following your lead on chastity belts, but it might just work.
Compulsary chastity belts will never be introduced – it would break about fifty billion human rights…