Full Circle
What kind of scumbag refuses to
support his child? (JW 3/9) The kind who has grown up hearing that a child
should not doom anyone to months, much less years, of suffering his presence. Only someone educated in the school of me-ism
divorced from notions of moral obligation to other human beings could possibly
be so selfish. Who do we have to thank
for the new men’s ‘rights’ thinking now threatening a child welfare crisis
unmatched in history? Well, ask yourself
who is saying, “I had a right to play sexual games and not let worry about possible consequences spoil the fun. Surely my rights trump those of this kid I
can’t even see. Society has no investment in my private life. How dare anyone condemn me to responsibility
and un-fun for a kid I don’t even want?”
We all pay when anyone with
responsibility for the weak and helpless abdicates and throws the burden upon
‘society’. We all pay when the calculus
of life makes murder a possible solution to our discomfort. We all pay when the next generation takes its
miseducation to its obvious, if horrific, logical
conclusions. I’d like to tell these young men there is no ‘right’ to
irresponsible sex; that no child should be punished for their own selfish,
ignorant, immaturity and that they will be more manly, more noble, more human
for facing up to the obligations life imposes.
But all around me women who need their support are telling them the
opposite is true.
Charlotte
Ostermann