People should need a license to have children

[newParadigm]

Originally posted by: JLGatsby

Originally posted by: waggy
wow 80-90% of poorkids turn out bad?

Perhaps higher. In most urban areas, about 80% of all children are born out of wedlock, and high school graduation rates at usually no higher than 70% (30% dropping out). Then you have crime, drug use, and more. Mix them all together, 90% of them will be victim of one or more of those situations.

I agree with you almost completley, except for drug abuse. I go to a predominantly wealthy school (public, but in a very upper middle class area), and surveys show over 70% of students have used Marijuana more than once, 50% have engaged in intercourse, and there's other stuff, I agree that it is a factor, but drug use is still there, just under more proper conditions (drugs aren't inherintly bad).

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[JLGatsby]

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: JLGatsby

Originally posted by: DAGTA

Originally posted by: JLGatsby
I have obsessive compulsive disorder and this prevents me from discussing in detail my personal background. As far as I'm concerned, the person who lived then no longer exists. So I will not discuss "me."

mmm, can you describe this OCD for me? I've not encoutered an OCD that prevented someone from discussing in detail his personal background.

Please refer to the sentence: As far as I'm concerned, the person who lived then no longer exists.

I refuse to document the life of the person who controlled my consciousness on these forums because I do not wish to pollute the person who lives now (myself).

The connections are severed. This is a new person speaking and knows nothing of the troubles which came before him. Different life, different name, different world, just as Jay Gatsby did with his when he reinvented himself.

And now you probably think I'm a mental patient who somehow escaped the "home" 😛 , but this is the best way to describe it.

Correction, now we know that you are a mental patient.