Challenging Labour's decades-long silence on school-age mothers, he wrote: 'It's time to stop worrying about how people's feelings might be hurt if we question the choices they've made. Because very often, those choices are wrong. And it's about time we said so.
So, some in the Labor Party (sorry, I'm an American, I can't type that extra "u", even if I should in this case) are coming to the realization that it might not be good for British society as a whole to reward poor choices. Teens are irresponsible by nature, short-term thinkers, and they like to screw each other. Turns out, if you create a system that gives money to teen mums, those teens may not entirely think about the opportunities they'll be missing by taking those assistance checks, instead they'll just see that they're getting paid to be a mother, and life on the dole isn't all that miserable, and they can probably dump the wee ones on their own mothers (who odds are were unmarried teen moms, themselves) if they decide they want to go out for a night of carousing.
