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Monday, August 11, 2008
The high cost of free sex
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The head of the Center for Law and Religion at Emory University writes that children born out of wedlock in this country cost taxpayers $112 billion a year. It’s time, says Professor John Witte, that single parents take responsibility for the children they bring into the world.
Private sex is a protected activity, Witte points out, but the protection ends with the act itself. Why shouldn’t it extend to the child that results from nonmarital sex? Why shouldn’t the parents be held responsible for the children they produce?
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