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1. Single parenhood. (Factual that by and large, children do better with a natural father and mother.)
Children need a loving, stable home-life. The number and biological
relationship of the parents has negligable effect in comparison.
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2. Unwanted babies and supposed need to kill the unborn.
Hardly a new phenomenon. Young girls were routinely locked
up in asylums for simply falling pregnant out of wed-lock ...
or stoned to death.
And babies have been abandoned and left to die for centuries.
Even Romulus and Remus were left unwanted on the hillside
(fiction, yes, but a common practice in ancient times).
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3. Divorce, legal hassles clooging up the legal system etc.
There are more divorces becuase it is easier to do (legally),
and that it has been made easier to do implies a recognition
of the need.
Which is worse, being stuck in a miserable life with the wrong
person, or being able to admit the mistake and start afresh?
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4. Rise of need for social welfare resulting in higher taxes.
What is social welfare? Doesn't sound like something that
could be all that bad to me.
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5. Decline in discipline and behaviour of children.
How is this linked to moral decline?
Bad parenting has always happened ... perhaps we should question
modern parenting advice rather than blame wholesale moral decline.
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6. Sexual disease, the worse being aids. Again more tax dollars and social problems.
And syphilis wasn't much a problem before it could be cured?
How many died because of this disease, and countless other
SDT's, prior to the emergence of adequate control and treatment?
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7. Incidence of drugs, crime and all the ramifications of these.
Crime rates fluctuate, and would be expected to increase with
increasing population density (because there us more opportunity
for crime if there are more people tightly packed). Crime
rates in victorian London were
excessively high by modern standards and yet the face of
victorian society was strict and rigid christain morality.
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8. Need for more prisons, policemen and other enforcement personel.
The need for more prisons most likely has much more to do
with abolition or delay of capital punishment (not making
ANY comment on the rights and wrongs of that simply
on the consequences).
In former times certain crimes were swiftly punished by
execution. Now they require either very long prison sentences
of extended time on death row. Consequence -- more prison
spaces required.
Simplified version, yes, indication of more crime, no.
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9. Rise in incidence of suicide.
Not sure that this is true either.
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10. Increase in corporate, government and social corruption leading to all kinds of problems and causing financial ruin to many.
Government officials in the 30's weren't corrupt?
Power attracts the corruptible.
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