Guilty before your born!

The Prime Minister’s suggestion that menace children can be identified before they are born (read it here) sounds outrages, however I can see where he is coming from. The PM uses teenage mothers as his example, saying that mothers who are not in a stable relationship provide a “difficult set of circumstances” for their child to grow up in, making it more likely they will become a ”menace to society.”

I’m sure we all know what he is referring to and have witnessed the type of family for ourselves, but stating that a child growing up in these circumstances will become a menace, is to give a child a guilty title before they are born!

Surely what the PM should be saying is that help should be given to support these families and to indentify why they are in these circumstances in the first place. Not to take over their lives because they are. The very suggestion of sanctions for parents who refused to take advice, is a clear example of the Government’s desire to impose a nanny state.

Although credit should be given to the PM for his attempt to try and tackle the “causes of crime” which he promised to do all those years ago, even if he has gone over the top to do it.

I would expect what the PM has said to be presented in a different way or totally forgotten in coming weeks.