Originally Posted by Tam

I do think, however, that mental capacity should be a measure of whether one should be put on mandatory birth control though. I know of one girl right now, her parents are both pretty well off but that girl can't even boil water or take care of herself on ANY level.... where a lower income class will tend to teach their kids SOME skill levels to help their kids survive in the world. My oldest son's ex-girlfriend will be 19 in one month, she is in college and that kid can't even boil water, she can't function at all on her own.... not even for a minute. Her parents put careers and church ahead of her all of her life. She has to label her food in her own home so her parents don't eat her food and if her name isn't on it, she isn't allowed to eat it. She is now living on her own and she is into so many drugs and drinking that she doesn't even know she can't boil water or feed herself because she stays so zoned out she doesn't know where she's at half the time. And this is from an upper middle income class home. She once called her dad an asshole and they put her in "Jesus Jail" for three days..... this consisted of being put in the basement for 24 hours at a time and no food or anything, and told to pray for forgiveness for disrespecting her father... once she would confess that she has repented, she was only then allowed out of Jesus Jail. She was 7 at this time.