>>>Are you familiar with Theodore Dalrymple?
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>"Beyond and above all other nations in the world, Britain is the place where all the evils summarised above are most clearly manifest"
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>so how come US has higher teen pregnancy rates?
We try harder?
Don't know much about teen pregnancy rates but I do know political demagoguery has traditionally excoriated anyone within minority communities who has had the temerity to suggest that "fatherless families" are not a good strategy for upward mobility as "blaming the victim"
The Moynihan Report of 1965 was followed by years of social programs that certainly made the situation far worse than what even he predicted
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Negro_Family:_The_Case_For_National_ActionShould also be noted that despite poverty levels, horrendous racial inequality and other pathologies the Black community in the US had teen pregnancy and out of wedlock birthrates in the 40s and 50 quite comparable to any other population subgroup.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
