by Johanna Kaschke in Children, Education, Health, Socio-economic Tags: Children, Europe, family, Housing, youth

This is a significant step in our society to publicly advertise on television abortion services and this is hotly contested by pro-life campaigners. There is nothing more sensitive than talking about how to stop overcrowding of our planet as it is bound to upset someone.

Yet it is a factor that cannot be overlooked, ignored or pushed off till later, because later we have an even bigger problem. What is the question though is how to educate people to restrain themselves rather than making it either too easy or use too restrictive solutions like the one-child policy in China for example.

One way is of course to legalize homosexuality, which in itself does not produce any children, another is to offer abortions, still further to offer women equal rights in the work place.

But what about the sexual side of the coin. I prefer if people are taught a bigger sexual conscience, that we embrace the Catholic teachings and see sex as something to make children with and not just as lust. Being lusty is just as easy as being hungry and we play around with our bodies with either of the two.

Many people find it very easy to engage in sex, it doesn’t need any skills, many find it equally or even more easy to over eat.

What we need to teach children from an early age is to be conscientious of their bodies and how they can learn to cope with their bodies in a healthy and responsible way. Abortions and overweight are not acceptable and for others homosexuality isn’t, as we’ve just seen in Africa (Uganda, plans the death penalty) but in Europe it is legal. When I was younger talking about sex was completely taboo and we children did not develop the sexual conscience that children have today and we did not get involved in sex early either. There was no sex on TV or the media. We were not stimulated into it. Today sex is brought into young children’s minds very early, too early for my liking.

The ability to cope with our bodies’ sexual desires should be a very important point in every person’s life and when it was usually left to the family, but due to the smaller amount of time children actually spend with their families schools have taken over the role of sex education, to the point where young female pupils are offered abortions without their parents consent.

Yet the teachings of the Catholic church on sex are perfectly easy to understand and to follow, but the Islam religion doesn’t seem to encourage abstinence but encourages the wearing of lots of clothes for women to stem sexual desire and lust. (I have to read up on that)

We need a world-wide consensual approach, that all we can do to help ourselves in the oncoming period of earth warming, when the living space of the planet will be considerably reduced by flooding, that we get ready for that by having less children each. That this will be explained to people and not just indicated by putting young mothers on work programs.

In practice social housing policies only work for young girls who got themselves pregnant and have a child, the whole attitude is geared towards having babies but not towards encouraging young people to engage in sensible relationships and put having children off till the family is settled financially. Because this very important point is constantly forgotten the UK has the highest teenage pregnancy rate in Europe.

Even I myself was tempted to have children when I arrived in the UK in 1977 even though I didn’t want to have children ever before I came here. the wages were abhorrent low for women and the council flats, benefits and furniture easy to get. The stimulation to get pregnant is very high here in the UK. It is not fair on the average citizen to allow them to think that having children is just a way of life, we need to educate people in morals and social conscience much more than we do now and start that process by reducing sexual content in advertising. Mary Whitehouse was a great supporter of that. We need a replacement for Mary Whitehouse now with plenty of media support.

If we cannot manage overpopulation now and within the next 75 years, we see a lot of problems coming our way when sea levels rise and earth warming sets in to push people away from the shores and inland when housing there is not as plentiful.