So it will be the policy of New York City to publicly shame teenage mothers, and this is a good thing, writes
Richard Reeves of Brookings in today’s
New York Times. I don’t want to argue with a professional moralist, being a mere amateur myself, but wouldn’t this make more sense in a world of parthenogenesis? I mean, there are
guys involved somewhere, right? And, last time I looked, we still lived in a society in which sex was not exactly a realm of pure equality and equally shared responsibility.
What if young girls are creating life in a quest for unconditional love? How could shaming them for seeking it be interpreted as anything but cruel?
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