How To Keep the Prisons Empty
Life starts, when it can exist independently outside the womb. Until then, an embryo is just a bunch of biological matter, and if not wanted, there is no rational difference between an embryo and a tumor as something to be removed.
Having something unwantedly growing in the womb is not a justification to require, demand or coerce a person to raise it.
Given the availability of contraception, the availability of unlimited abortion during the first three months and the availability of a legal way of depositing unwanted children anonymously for adoption, it is justified to protect children from the moment of their birth on. But these are the rational requirements to allow a woman to prevent the situation to have the raising of an unwanted child forced upon her.
The deity delusion includes the fatal claim, that every life is very precious, because it is a gift of the deity. If the life is unhappy or if it becomes a hazard to others is of no importance to the deity. Rationally seen, considering a newborn as having the same value as an adult is a depreciation of the sacrifices of the caregivers.
Statistics have clearly shown, that unwanted children are a high risk to become criminals, the population of jails consists in a high proportion of unwanted children. They are at risk, if they are raised by unwilling caregivers, but also when they grow up in orphanages.
Therefore, there should not be unwanted children. Every unwanted child is one too many. The decision for or against an abortion is unfortunately distorted many times by the delusion of depriving the deity of her gift. But rationally seen, an abortion does not make a change, it merely reinstates the baseline, which is the empty womb, just as it was before the pregnancy. To get pregnant again, if a child is wanted later, is usually easier than to even get an abortion. Without the deity delusion, an abortion could therefore be the standard procedure, not only, when the pregnancy is not wanted, but even, when there is any doubt. Dealing with an unwanted child is so much more problematic then getting pregnant again.
Since there is the abortion pill, it is a simple way to do it, if the pill would be sold freely. It is scandalous, that this pill is controlled under the financial and political power of those, whose own judgment is disabled by the deity delusion.
Thus, abortion is the first step in the prevention of crime.
A newborn baby is only a form of raw material. What converts it into an healthy, independent, decent citizen is the investment of time and money by the caregivers.
There is no way to prevent people from producing more raw material than is good.
But the focus of society should be on the quality of the children and not on the quantity, and that is the second step of prevention.
It is obvious that good education from early on in kindergarten and school is important, but this is not sufficient. The focus should be on the parents. There is a training and a licence required for nearly everything, driving is an example. Driving lessons are to protect others from being injured by an unable driver.
People, who want to raise children, should get some training too, instead of being allowed to raise children to become a hazard to others.
The first step could be obligatory courses at high school, not only in how to handle babies, but also in communication and other aspects of education. During pregnancy, there could be a course offered, which ends with a licence of basic parental training, which could then be accompanied by regular additional courses in accordance with the age of the child.
Since nobody can stop people from breeding like rabbits, the only way to make them undergo parenting training, are some substantial incentives. The incentive could be a monthly payments from the government and a reward, when the child reaches a given age, maybe 21, and has not become a criminal and a burden to society.
That reward could be a sum for the child towards further education, starting a business, buying a house, and an additional sum to the retirement pay of the parents.
The money saved on institutions for unwanted children, juvenile delinquents, jails and the damage done by the criminals would be sufficient to pay the parental training and incentives.
