If This Is a Nanny State, Why Is Having Children so Difficult?
Scotland on Sunday › September 28, 2004
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Summary
TIMES have changed right enough. It used to be that the greatest thing you could do for your country was to die for it. Today women are being urged to breed for it. Propagation is nothing less than our civic duty, according to Trade Secretary Patricia Hewitt, who last week came over all Lord Kitchener and proclaimed: "Shag for Britain: Your Country Needs You".
I'm paraphrasing, of course, but that was the gist of her speech to the CBI. In the nanny state, apparently, having large families is no longer a matter of personal choice, it is "crucial for the economic and social success of the nation".See the full content of this document
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If This Is a Nanny State, Why Is Having Children so Difficult?
In Blairite Britain, children are not individuals whose strengths and weaknesses are to be cherished, they are future recruits for the army of taxpayers that is required to solve the pensions crisis.
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