Incentive not to get pregnant

[AndyD]

Yep - I felt the same way at first, but take a close look - it has changed behaviour. Significantly!

Working on the symptom has managed to influence the root cause. It has turned into an elegant (and surprisingly effective) form of regulation.

If you consider littering as the root cause then it influence the cause. If the plastic bags legislation was rescinded tomorrow I think we'd be back to square one in no time so I wouldn't say littering was the root cause.

I was thinking more along the lines of lack of pride in your neighbourhood or even country and lack of concern for fellow citizens being the root cause. This hasn't been addressed.

[tec0]

I don’t blame technologies but I do feel that pornography, movies and sex-education may have a significant role to play when it comes to violence against women and general behaviour. Fact is to most young people intimate relations have boiled down to 1 night stands and just basic reflex function.

Safe-sex dulls the sensation and perhaps again I feel that pornography had a really big role to play in these decisions. Then the close second is group-pressure. Lastly is rape and sexual abuse. All these horrible aspects must be understood before we say “what happen to “be faithful� and “marriage�.

Perhaps we must introduce stronger laws to uphold morality. Secondly allow the youth to grow up naturally and not this haste to be an adult all the time. See this problem exist now because of decisions that were made in the past to fight HIV and all the other bad things that can be connected to the subject at hand.

Perhaps we need to look at what the youth is exposed to in these modern times before we say “get a education first story�

[Dave A]

When it comes to shaping social behaviour and setting norms, it really comes down to leadership and role models. Yes, there's peer pressure, but what chance does a youngster have to buck that if there are no great role models to look to.

So maybe that's the problem - no healthy role models, so we have to resort to that old fall-back, hard cash!

What a wonderful lesson for our youth

[tec0]

I would agree with you under normal circumstances. Sadly I cannot. Humans are fallible and right now our morality structure has come to the point where the youth is downright exploited. Yes jumping in bed with someone and endorsing unsafe sexual behaviour is becoming the norm. However look at why. We cannot ignore the facts that technology have “spidered� into basically every aspect of our lives. There are simply no control.

Now I know of a lot of people that have lost their children due to bad breakups and even know of a few that is not with us anymore because they basically lost control over their lives. The truth is control systems and proper laws will be the only way to stop this from happening.

The money thing gets me a bit. As you know “I do help out on occasion� at the local care-village and it simply broke me to see all those tiny small children growing up not knowing who they are because mom is a drunk and dad is gone and because of money BS.

Prevention is better than cure and sometimes Prevention needs intervention. And I strongly belief that Intervention is key here.