So my premise is that we are to look at the sustainability and sufficiency of parents going forward.
You bring up your father (past) and the Spanish Flu (past) which bears no relevance to forward sustainability of the poor or ill minded junkies we, as society, continue to prop up.
Can you tell me what your thought process is? In other words, what does your father or the Spanish Flu have to do "with the price of tea in China"? ...as they'd say.
It had to do with exactly how poor they were. It was in the bottom 5%.
I have to think he would have been a prime candidate for castration based on a teenage mother as poor as a human can be and a husband who was 18 at the time according to your logic.
He later died in 1919 when my dad was 4 from the Spanish flu.
I think his situation would have fit right into your theory.
I think we both know that trying to find a practical solution while having religion against birth control is a no win situation.
My idea? It goes against what many people are taught through religion and culture.
I think people should be offered the opportunity to not have children and be paid for it by being formally educated for free. And not some liberal arts BS but a real sustainable education. It would be a choice. It would cost much less and the long term result would be much cheaper for a multitude of reasons.
Religion would go crazy though. People would scream and swear it was racist but it would slow down being born into deep poverty and be for all races.
Even pay people to only have 1 kid or not have children until they were old enough to be able to take care of that kid financially. I would make men just as financially responsible as women for a pregnancy through formal education age. About 23/24 years old. That would never fly but …last time I checked, they were just as responsible as women were.
There are things that can be done but there are too many people with self interest that will cry foul.
Without proper education none of this goes away. There cannot be a hood or discrimination. But good luck with that.
Too much greed to ever do what’s right for people that have only a fractional chance to thrive.
I was lucky. Many are not.