Teenage mums: all rights and no responsibilities

AS a veteran socialist/liberal commentator, Fergus Finlay (Irish Examiner, February 15) not surprisingly chooses to concentrate on the micro issues regarding lone parenthood — usually motherhood — in his take on Kevin Myers’ “disgusting article” in the Irish Times.

Teenage mums: all rights and no responsibilities

The option of "creating more choices" for such "poverty-stricken mums" is all fine and well: those choices as suggested by Finlay, however, will apply to all lone parents and will invariably be paid for out of the taxpayer's wallet.

Why is it that such socialist agitators only get excited about more 'rights' for less fortunate citizens but rarely allude to the quid pro quo of responsibility from those sometimes irresponsible groupings.

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