17 Pregnant Girls and a Soccer Ball

This piece comes to me by way of a friend who adamantly agrees with the "America is Decaying" mantra.

He writes:

Here’s more evidence of the decline of America as we know it.  Did you read the story of the 17 school girls, none of whom was over the age of 16,  in Gloucester Massachusetts who made a pact to get pregnant and raise their babies together.  Children having children.  Back in the day … the age of innocence … there was a certain amount of shame associated with a high school girl getting pregnant.  A girl who was “in a family way”  was usually spirited off in the night to give birth and the baby was put up for adoption.  Now I’m not saying that we haven’t progressed as a society and we should feel some compassion for a young girl who gets pregnant because her parents failed to tell her how her reproductive organs work but a premeditated pregnancy pact. And to add insult to injury, one of the fathers is a 24 year old homeless guy.  Now that’s improving the gene pool, not to mention that little statutory rape thing.  And where do we find the Geneses of a bunch of children who don’t even know enough not to fry bacon in the nude making a pregnancy pact?  How about the Murphy Brown celebration of having a child out of wedlock … about the same time that a bunch of liberal leaning parents decided that soccer should be the sport of choice for our children.  We no longer have any concept of consequences of our behavior or respect for our fellow human beings, or other peoples’ property or ourselves for that matter.  Stop the world, I want off!!!  

Thank you my friend, well said.

We pondered yesterday about when all of this mess began with the downfall of America.  I was blind to think it started with the Clinton's and Political Correctness.  However, my friend pointed out that it all began with the Soccer Ball.

Yes, the Soccer Ball and the Soccer Mom and the philosophy that the great American sport of FOOTBAL was too rough and too hard for little Johnie.  And worse, Football left poor little Suzie in a mini-skirt and pom-poms cheering from the sidelines.

The revolution of Soccer in America began in the '80s.  And, the parents of those Soccer kids needed to boost their child's ego by enrolling them in a sport where winning and losing didn't matter any more. 

Well, let me tell you, one of the first things I taught my son when he stepped onto the Soccer field in 1999 at the ripe age of 5, was to take a run at the goalie every chance he could!

I was chastised by my now ex-wife, but there was no way I was going to let my son grow up to be a Soccer Sissy when his father was a local football over-achiever 30 years prior!

I played football, just as many others in this area did.  Names like Montana, Ditka, Kotar, Marino, Kelley, and Unitas are names that line the walls of local high schools here in Pittsburgh.  My son would never have the chance to be a football great, because knee pants football in this area was dead and buried by the black and white (or pink and blue) soccer ball.

But, as I dwelled on our conversation yesterday, it hit me later that evening that I could take the fall of America back even further.  The parents of those 80's soccer kids were the product of or participants in Woodstock and the hippie movement where love and peace prevailed over war and common sense.  It was those hippies that would grow up to raise these little soccer champs to believe that they don't need to win to have fun, but rather just playing where we wont keep score is what matters.

Freaking Hippies!

So, the Decay of the American Society can be traced back to Kent State, LSD, and Jane Fonda.  Can you perhaps take it back even further?

What's Wrong America?  Freaking Hippies is what's wrong!