>>Gosh, that last paragraph would seem to overlap with the notion of raising youngsters to incorporate a thought process into their decisions.
OK, but then why are American parents so bad at raising youngsters to do this?
>>You won't hear me say anything to deny that the U.S. has a bad pregnancy rate.
Precisely. So how come, and what (if anything) can be emulated to achieve a better result?
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
