What Goudinoff's hope is, of course, is to force some daddies of babies to take responsibility. He's struggling, like everyone else, with how to manage the funding and life-draining problems of teenage pregnancy. But while trying to call men's attention to a law making it an offense to have sex with a minor, the retiring senator wants an offensive label placed on the wrong sex. I went to a central high school where grades seven through 12 were in one school. Goudinoff thinks prosecuting these men is one way to reduce teen pregnancy.
Teenagers are reluctant to talk about the who, what, where and why of everything.
Naming names and teenagers don't go together. And if we were able to prosecute guys, some of whom are no doubt under the age of consent themselves, we better ask the governor to allocate a lot more money for juvenile beds than he's getting ready to ask the legislature for. Keep in mind that we prosecute people all the time for crimes like murder and child abuse and those rates continue to increase. Teenagers are not going to stop having sex. Goudinoff has been quoted as saying that brochures stating that a person can be prosecuted for having sex with a minor should be put on the desk of every junior high and high school boy.