My daughter is now taller than I am. She looks like quite the woman- but she is only 14, and knows very little of the world. She doesn't even date yet; we suggested she not even think about that until 16- but that she didn't even have to at 16 if she wasn't ready. Now what if some older boy, or even man, predated upon my daughter- and what if her hormones induced her to have sex with someone- because her body is the body of an adult, even though she is still very much a child emotionally- why would I, her mother, who loves her, make her have that child? I would LOVE to have another baby- and I would be happy to raise her child- but I would never want to force that on her, knowing what I know about having a child.
I do not think the government has a right to make my 14 year old, or anyone else, have a baby; it also does not have the right to make anyone have an abortion. Having a child is such an intimate decision- it affects who we are, and what we will be, and it should only be made by the people involved, imo. Without the freedom to control how many children you have, and when you have them, women have very little freedom- which is probably what many men subconsciously want- and that's probably wired into them. Men like to see women pregnant and servile- it's probably wired into them. It's so prevalent I think it must be- just as women, even if only subconsciously, like dominant aggressive men (or at the very least like them at certain times of the month- when they are likely to conceive- at least according to the latest research). But just because something worked, when we were running around naked and wild (that does represent the majority of the time we've spent evolving, after all)- it does not mean those desires work out in the highly civilized world of today- which, let's face it, many people are NOT evolved for. |
