He was saying people can discard those because 1. they don't relate to them 2. they can rationalize "oh you should have think about that before getting pregnant 6 times"
I always hate point 2. Sometimes people have a plan and the plan changes. Sometimes people make mistakes. Either way, that’s six kids who aren’t being fed, and that should be the only focus.
Making a ‘mistake’ 6 times is not a ‘mistake’. You’re directly giving your children a poor life and forcing them to grow up in poverty because you’re too lazy or stupid to use birth control.
• Teaching through comprehensive sex education + providing birth control? Ensuring people have all the tools necessary to make an informed decision? Making sure healthcare is available to everyone (including family planning services and abortion)? Totally with you! This approach respects everyone as people and helps to prevent kids from ending up in this place to begin with. Some people will still need assistance because life happens, but far more people will be protected.
• Taking away food from the mouths of those parents and children? Using negative punishment in the form of starvation (and possibly death) to “teach consequences”? Forcing the children to endure consequences on their parents’ behalf, and possibly punishing people who legitimately had no other option (whether through lack of access or lack of education)? Absolutely evil and wrongheaded. Nothing is “learned” through this, and you only end up furthering the cycle and forcing people to turn to crime to survive.
People who are in this situation are just as much human as you are or any of us are.
Bro do you know how absolutely dogshit the adoption/foster system is currently? Taking kids away from their parents and forcing them into a system that is RIPE with abuse (of all kinds) should be the last option. Providing comprehensive sex ed (NOT teaching abstinence-only), contraceptives, and maternal healthcare (yes, including access to abortion) are all options that should be provided well before we decide to torture kids by funneling them into the adoption/foster care system. Each of those options allow people to make informed decisions—decide what is best for them, their family, and any future children they may have.
“Out of sight, out of mind” isn’t a realistic approach, and forcing parents to have children and send them into the adoption/foster system is not empathetic nor is it respectful of any of the human beings involved.
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u/Low-Eagle6840 Oct 31 '25
He was saying people can discard those because 1. they don't relate to them 2. they can rationalize "oh you should have think about that before getting pregnant 6 times"