"It would not be unreasonable, by analogy with a motor vehicle licence, that a permit to reproduce should also be needed with a minimum age of, for example, twenty-five, and a proof required that the parents are of sufficient maturity and financial resource to take proper care of the child. Young, sexually active, but emotionally immature teenagers would need help." | by: | |
Source: | Too Many People (London and New York: Calder Publications and Riverrun Press, 1994), p.113. |
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