Protecting young girls a small cost

LAST week I posed the question of ‘why’ do we have little children being abused?
I was relating my comment to children abused beyond the levels of human endurance and by people who for some reason cannot see the damage they are inflicting, the pain they cause, or just don’t care. Many of these children die.
This is not about children being given a hard time by an illtempered parent or guardian, but horribly abused by other socalled ‘humans’ who for some reason have moved into their zones.
These are people, male and female, who gain gratification from all manner of cruelty to children or who simply lose control. I wish I could speak with one or two of them to hear why they do it, and whether or not they have remorse?
They inflict on defenceless children fear, pain and psychological suffering.
Soon after last week’s My view, I heard clinical midwife specialist at Monash Medical Centre Shirley Floyd tell the Narre Warren North Red Cross Unit annual meeting that many young single women in trouble had ‘most unhelpful partners’. Children being born were now the third generation of parents who had never worked in gainful employment.
This culture of ‘it’s okay for young single girls to have babies’, sometimes two and three to different fathers, is destroying our social fabric and creating intolerable community problems.
Ms Floyd said mothers were devoid of partner support and children were not receiving a male role model.
Her concerns echo those I am hearing across the board and I have seen the result of a 17yearold pregnant girl being punched in the stomach when she was eight months pregnant. Why was she punched?
I took some interest in the case only to find the same girl was killed in a car accident before the baby was born. Why did that car accident happen?
There is a desperate need for the government to reverse the reasoning behind maternal payments. The government needs to compensate young girls by paying them not to have babies.
This money could go to young girls under adult age, even to those in employment and education.
Children are being born to intellectually handicapped mothers and case histories at Windermere show young children looking after parents in a reversal of responsibility.
Also, children are being born to young girls who should know better.
I hear stories of girls wanting to have a baby because they will then have someone to love them, yet the most unloved baby is one born to give love rather than born to receive love.
I hear stories of girls wanting a baby in order to obtain a pension and cheap housing, but ultimately life becomes much more difficult.
Because, as Ms Floyd said, their partners are most unhelpful and often they don’t stay around.
Drug and alcoholaffected parents bring children into a world that is hell from day one.
The cost to the community is escalating in cash terms, but in human terms it is a devastation of baby life. These young girls should be making a pathway for themselves and not be locked away in a cheap flat or caravan with a baby.
Despite what churches may say or civil rights people may say or the morals of what I say, nothing sinks so low as the stories I hear about the abuse of children in a society from which most of us are protected.
The cost of a preventative pension to young girls could be a major investment in human kind for this country.
The alternative cost of half repairing the damage of allowing this syndrome to continue will escalate a thousand fold and children will continue to bear the pain in growing numbers.