WHERE SHALL ALL THE CHILDREN GO?

While we are getting people to think about the plight or rather what should be the plight of prisoners we need to take a look at why there are so many prisoners in the first place.
The number one reason that we have so many prisoners is because there are too many women having too many children who are not taken care of properly. They are raised without proper guidance and many times without a father figure in the house. I would say home, but a home is more than just a place to live. It is a place where you learn morals and the way to behave to fit into society in general and without that you only have your own wits and intelligence to decide how you should live. We all know that if children have no regulation they will go to extremes and like a wild beast they will turn wild and do whatever they want.
We pretend that having children is very important and yet it is one of the few areas of our lives where there is no experience or testing required to have a child. We license people to drive autos, own handguns, fly planes, and yet for the most important feature of humanity, childbirth and rearing, there is nothing more than being able to procreate.
We live in a disposable society where appliances last but a few years, as are autos, televisions, pretty much anything that humans make is created with built in obsolescence. In a way this is true of children as well as we are determined to let anyone have children, but we really do not care what happens to them after they are born. True there are some human services related programs, but really other than some programs that feed them; that is unless the food stamps and WIC coupons are sold for something else, they are pretty much left to the discretion of their parents, usually a single mother to do everything else for them. We allow the “father” and I do use this term facetiously, as most of these worthless bastards would be hard pressed to provide anything for their children. I have met men who think it is a great burden to pay $150 to $200 for child support. Wow and they really think that these few dollars will provide food, shelter, clothing and education for their children, and these are the few who do pay. We see everyday the huge number of men who do not pay anything and do whatever they can to avoid paying at all costs, even to the point of taking cash “under the table” to avoid paying. These are not men, but merely sperm donors who should be castrated if they produce more than one of these children for “us” to pay with our tax dollars.
I find it offensive that there are so many people who feel that it is their right to produce children that they cannot or will not take care of and when we suggest that they are irresponsible, then we are the bad guys. Well I for one am tired of being expected to let this type of behavior just continue without saying a word. These young men and women who do not know any better should be allowed their one mistake, but after that if they choose to receive any assistance from my government they will have to work for it and learn to be responsible with sterility the consequence if they choose to provide us with more of their children without our consent. I do not care what they do on their own time and in their own homes, but when it affects me they will be held accountable and they will pay the price, even if that means that they lose the privacy to their lives, bodies, and futures.
We must teach and make sure that young men and women understand how important it is to bring a child into this world, which is creaking under the strain of so many people right now. Perhaps we can hope that they will get some sense before it is too late, but the past has shown that this has not been the case and we are rapidly running out of time to make it so!
Daniel Carvel Kepler