tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12452759.post116231643505069892..comments2024-03-22T07:12:47.560-07:00Comments on Pitchpull: Ants, Grasshoppers, and Pregnancy At 13Greybeardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11919862790973521778noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12452759.post-1162838358056405042006-11-06T10:39:00.000-08:002006-11-06T10:39:00.000-08:00This makes me laugh, because when I was exactly th...This makes me laugh, because when I was exactly thirteen I had a grade eight English teacher who was only a couple of years from retirement and would sometimes not really feel like exerting the effort required to instill in us an appreciation of Shakespeare, or gerunds, or the semi-colon. He would ask the class if he had read us the story of the Grasshopper and the Ant.<BR/><BR/>We would shake our heads 'no' with deceitful eagerness, even if he had just read us the story the previous week. <BR/><BR/>I don't believe any of the girls in my English class got pregnant that year, but I think we generally had better choices available.Aviatrixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13634111275860140084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12452759.post-1162825638698102152006-11-06T07:07:00.000-08:002006-11-06T07:07:00.000-08:00Right on. My dear friend from college who double-...Right on. My dear friend from college who double-majored with one major in women's studies is a very intelligent yet very liberal gal. For several years we had an ongoing debate about young mothers. <BR/><BR/>Her viewpoint was based on women's health and choice: that easier access to birth control, use of the morning-after pill and legalized abortion were how to break the cycle; give the girls choices for how to deal with their bad decisions so they won't propagate.<BR/><BR/>My viewpoint was based on social reconstruction: simply to teach them to make good decisions and let them live with the consequences if they don't. (Funnily, her response to this is that the ones making the bad decisions are too dumb to be taught otherwise!)<BR/><BR/>Neither works on a broad social scale.<BR/><BR/>Whatever happened to the idea of mandatory sterilization for repeat offenders?khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00997550162470542460noreply@blogger.com