Having children is a privilege

Should the second possibility also be identified as an option? We cannot answer this question if we cannot even begin to talk about it. After receiving the Wood Report into child abuse on November 24, 2008, the New South Wales government promised early intervention. But, no one in government or the law dares to mention the earliest of possible interventions - sterilisation.

Popular opinion does not concur. When I have suggested to my friends and relatives that some people should be sterilised, everyone has agreed - and yet it is a timid agreement - as if someone may be listening. The establishment (parliament and the media) has deemed that all discussion on sterilisation to be off limits.

Science supports the opinion of the silent majority

How many of us have idiosyncrasies we cannot get on top of because our mothers were highly stressed while pregnant? Science is only starting to move into this study. However, we do know that a fetus exposed to low oxygen or toxic substances due to irresponsible pre-natal care can have a life ahead of it which will be at a physical or mental disadvantage in a competitive society.

We also know with almost certainty that subconscious memories begin to be laid down from birth. Signals coming up from that hidden stratum will influence an individual’s behaviour for life. (Even not being picked up enough in the first year of life can create life-long problems.)

There is a critical stage in the growth of a child when the brain is very plastic. An area called the nucleus basalis is permanently switched on enabling effortless learning (due to extraordinarily enhanced powers of attention). That critical first decade is the most important period of our lives.

Mandatory sterilisation recognises that the abuse can begin from conception. Even if not battered to death, the mental and physical damage to a surviving child can be permanent.

The plastic brain molded within a chaotic environment

We have citizens who are balancing on the dividing line between civilisation and the jungle. They are males with self-control problems who are almost permanently living on welfare. The mothers of their children are women who are stuck at a low socio-economic level and who go from one hopeless relationship to another in a fruitless search for commitment and support.

Our culture permits people who cannot manage their own lives the freedom to take on the greatest responsibility any person can undertake; the bringing of another human being into the world. It is a freedom to take the plastic mind of an infant and hard-wire into it neural networks which will generate life-long emotional dysfunction. It is a freedom to release one’s fury in not being able to cope with life’s stresses by battering a defenseless human body as if it was an inanimate object.

While “our leaders” spend decades intellectualising social problems in some academic stratosphere, the misery continues to occur unabated at ground level. Then our courts finally pass down sanctimonious judgments “in the best interests of the child” after the damage has become irreparable.

Behavioural scientists tell us that the great majority of long-term inmates in our multi-billion dollar prison system would not be there if they had not been abused as children. In other words; the inmates committed crimes against society because society had previously allowed crimes to be committed against them.

Implementing the radical move to mandatory sterilisation may not be as difficult as it may first appear. Men who tend to live from day to day typically have no concept of long-term consequences of actions. Consequently, a monetary compensation for a mandatory vasectomy may result in little resistance to it. Mandatory tubule ligation of women (such as drug-addicts) who clearly cannot provide a secure environment for a child would not be necessary as it is the high-risk man who almost invariably cause such women to become pregnant.

Summary

We are living with uncontrollable child abuse, as we have not set a bottom line. Once a genuine bottom line is set, then, by the definition of “bottom line”, whatever means it takes to keep from stepping over that line must be taken.