The claim, now heard in UK social services, that teenage pregnancy and dropping from school are merely alternative life choices, and must not be frowned upon by society can be categorized as nothing but BS. Not all life choices are equal. Every society must decide which life choices are acceptable and which are not.
Claiming that all life choices are equal takes away from the concept of progress. Can anyone claim that our society is not preferred to the 9th Century UK, pre-Magna Carta, pre-human rights? Is a serial killer life choice acceptable? Without a a moral compass, with definition of the desirable, acceptable, punishable there is no society only chaos. Chaos, in turn, limits life choices to survival. So, while teen-age mothers need support, let's agree that education as desirable in our society, and anything that stops it as not.
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