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Unfortunately nothing will stop some sections of society endlessly producing children to further their living conditions at the expense of the state. The fact that we have to fork out for them is a price we have to pay in a civilised society.
It happens in the third-world all the time - theoretically more children and lack of (or unwilling to use) contraception means more children to go out and work. However, resources and food can't stretch to feeding them and they become victims of their own population boom. Thomas Malthus warned about this two hundred years ago. That's why pumping money into Africa will never work in the long-term in alleviating poverty, starvation and death.
The difference here in the first world is that we can provide and support. Quite honestly, what is the alternative? Hoards of dispossessed families and starving children wandering the street?
Councillor Ward should have thought before opening his mouth. A retraction would have sufficed, but a resignation is going too far.
For interest, this is what Councillor Ward wrote on his internet blog, not that he was not advocating sterilisation for the unemployed, only those on benefits with two or more children:
"This is yet another example of 'Breakdown Britain', much of which stems from the Government-encouraged change away from the hard-working and decent family structure to an increasingly self-indulgent immoral and state-funded lazy lifestyle.
"Children become just a means toward that end, and are of themselves of little if any further significance in this new society.
"I think there is an increasingly strong case for compulsory sterilisation of all those who have had a second (or third, or whatever) child while living off state handouts.
"It would clearly take a lot of social pressures off all concerned, thus protecting the youngsters themselves to some degree, and remove the incentive to 'breed for greed' - i.e. for more public subsidy of their lifestyle (a well-known dodge, worth ever greater amounts to countless thousands of professional spongers).
"With over-population being the root cause of so much that negatively impacts Planet Earth, the very last thing the world needs is to encourage excessive breeding."
