A debate which was mediatised on FB (perhaps elsewhere too) had Lydia Taylor Davis engage with someone from University of Kentucky who made the following argument:
"90 % of these people are not fit to be parents, wouldn't you guys agree? If you think you are fit to be parents, and your parents are paying your rent, your car bill, paying your f*** bills, you can't raise a kid. So, that's what I have to say ..."
When she left after a few more words of politesse, Lydia Taylor Davis responded, "if you are not fit to be parents, don't engage in acts that make parents" ...
Fair enough, as far as it goes.
But Lydia Taylor Davis never challenged the idea that a person whose parents are paying the bills is ipso facto unfit to be a parent.
For one. Parents can like the idea of becoming grandparents. Indeed, royals back in the day tended to marry fairly early, while their parents (or grandparents) were, at the cost of taxation or feudal incomes, paying their bills.
For another. Getting a job is far harder for young people than it was decades ago. I'm offering an opportunity, which some Capitalistic crooks (like Lydia Taylor Davis' debater) are stopping by presenting me as someone "not fit to be a parent" ...
For a third. Some guys like to stay in power over young people (I've seen that plenty enough in the Capitalistic crooks alluded to) and therefore to exploit a de facto economic dependence as a reason to classify someone as immature.
And that no man might buy or sell, but he that hath the character, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name
[Apocalypse (Revelation) 13:17]
One way of taking either that mark or at least something similarily evil, would be to condone this kind of reasoning.
I've taken the debate back when I actually had a job, as I recall. I said "teens can be mothers, so teens should be able to marry" and I got the reply "back in they day they were getting a job at 15 or 16."
And back in the day, men with a job used to have sufficient money to have a wife without a paid full time job.
Since that day, teen marriages and teen pregnancies have been banned, children have been aborted, teen mothers (with living or especially with dead children or soon to die children) have been infantilised by this Capitalistic prejudice.
One solution is, girls of 14 can, with parental consent, marry, usually someone over 21 (Austria back when Dummrath wrote his anthropology). But what if the actual dad of the baby is an age peer? How awkward to leave the father for a man older than self and leman? Yeah, back in the day, boys and girls were not educated in the same schools after a typical age of puberty. My mother was happy in a form of school known as girls' school and that was not just for the kingdom of Sweden, that also existed in the Third Republic in France. And most certainly in Austria. And boys, tough luck, one had to wait to 21, but at least you were not shown enticements to not waiting every single school day.
So, as I have stated myself as being against Capitalism, some might presume as a kneejerk reaction I'm Communist or Anarchist. No. I tend to present myself as Fascist, making myself deaf to East Europeans hearing "National Socialist" (which I'm not) and just got reminded that Italians themselves might misunderstand because of my own ignorance of Italy, namely just after the war. Not only does it not mean I endorse the Salò Republic (or even the just previous years), it does not mean I distance myself from Gasperi or Pella or Sturzo either. I had forgotten that a deep quarrel between Fascists and Partito Populare Italiano to some means that calling myself a Fascist can come off as taking a distance from Gasperi. I think I'd have followed the recommendations of Don Camillo to not vote Peppone and that would usually not have meant voting MSI. But more than either of these, I'm a nostalgic of times before 1914 or 1789 or 1534 or 1520 (Austria, France, England, Sweden).
What is the solution then? 1) Make young marriages licit again, 2) decrease incitements (like coeducation) to premarital sex), 3) ban abortions. AND stop treating a de facto economic dependance as a sign of immaturity. It's in fact a sign of the last times.
Hans Georg Lundahl
Nanterre UL
Ember Friday of Pentecost
29.V.2026
