Agenda For America, by Haley Barbour: on Families & Children


Newt Gingrich: No society can survive with 12-year-olds having babies

Think of the major cultural indicators: rising crime, teen pregnancy, millions of abortions, and low levels of achievement in schools across the nation. Many of these problems are 5 times worse than they were just a generation ago. Taken in total, those statistics threaten us all. As Speaker Gingrich noted in a 1994 speech on Capitol Hill:

"No society can survive, no civilization can survive with 12-year-olds having babies, with 15-year-olds killing each other, with 17-year-olds dying of AIDS, & with 18-year-olds getting diplomas they can't read."

More have noted that the decline of morality in our society has occurred since 1960, during the most aggressively antireligion activity by "reformers." It is troubling enough that all these indicators are so much worse than they were 35 years ago. What is even more troubling for those who love America is that society now is not different just in degree but almost in kind from the America of 1960.

Source: Agenda For America, by Haley Barbour, p.157-158 Apr 25, 1996

  • The above quotations are from The Agenda for America
    A Republican Direction for the Future
    by Gov. Haley Barbour (R, MS).
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