I read once there is a link between preceived safety in a country and the average age of marriage and pregnancy. The safer a country the later people marry and have kids, the less safe a country the earlier. For example, in a time of war people marry earlier. That’s her male timetable link.

There is also a similar correlation with female education. The better educated the female population the later they marry and have sprogs.

These both explain why the UK has such an abysmal teenage pregnancy rate: violent, unsafe society and a dumbed down education system.

Brown’s Britain

I was 20 when I married, my wife 17. Had our first sprog 3 years later, she’s now left home (uni) and I’m still only in my early 40′s. And no worries about becoming a grandfather because she feels safe and is well educated. It’s great.

I could have run a household containing children when I was 14. What am I talking about, I did. But it wasn’t much fun, which is why I hotfooted out of the door as soon as I was legally allowed to.

Very droll.

Girls having children at 14 is not really a problem. The State making everyone else pay for it is. Sharing the responsibility across everyone else means that the teenage mothers do not see it as a mistake until it has already happened.

It doesn’t help that to some people the value of a child has been diminished by the State’s actions. They are a means to a council flat. They are a source of income. They are a fashion accessory. A pet. A punchbag. A plaything.

The Fabian mentality of everything being ‘right’ because they say so has put a lot of children into misery and because they are so wedded to procedures and processes they have no intention or ability to end this. Worse, those lives blighted by the welfare culture serve as ever greater justification for the State trying to muscle into every avenue of our lives.

Who would have paid Hilarity Mantel’s bills when she was 14? It was her choice to be ‘educated well into her twenties’ at a time when a lot of people weren’t, and there was nothing to stop her seeking to adopt children.

Take heart, you will be amazed how much you will have learned by the time she is in her mid twenties.

I wasn’t that well equipped emotionally to deal with kids in my late 20s, let alone my teens. I did better than most at coping, even when dealing with a disabled child, but parenthood is never, ever easy.

The 14 year old of your acquaintance will doubtless ‘graduate’ school with fistfuls of A* GCSE’s and a chip on both shoulders.

Its surely proper that we support infants totally, and then slowly removing that support as the child grows while hopefully becoming more independent. I think anyone would recognise this statement as parenting?

And yet, the State flips this around almost. Supplying ever greater intervention, benefits and ‘help’ as the child matures. Is it any surprise therefore that many grow-up to believe that a council house, kid and young persons pension (benefits) are the pinnacles of achievement?

What do you call a 30 year-old woman in a shellsuit?

Granny.

And house them.