Parent Trap.

The welfare agencies and care groups think that young mothers should be treated with respect, have access to education and training, be provided with appropriate services such as crèches, are entitled to an income that will sustain them, and have equal rights to those of the rest of humanity. Their values affect the norms of societies more accepting, “left wing” people. Those that are already support various charities’ actions and would in most cases accept a single mother as a person rather than a housing list queue jumper. Their norms become accordingly more accepting to the mothers’ so allowing more opportunity for success in life, with more support.

The single mothers values are generally that their child is important, that for whatever reason abortion is unacceptable and that they should be allowed/able to bring their own child up without losing respect from society. These values are altruistic and not those you would link with a “stupid queue jumping slag”, so this would sway the general view of society, so that its norms would become more accepting and supportive, giving the mothers more of a chance. However this could only happen on a relatively small scale due to the fact that each person only has a limited sphere of contact with other people, for example I do not actually know any young single mothers.

Campaigns such as the YWCA have always had a certain amount of success simply through advertising the fact that there is a problem, and with a more active approach to the political angle there is even more opportunity for success. The website itself has a charter which can be signed easily, however from the whole of the world the online charter only has 50 visible names. I believe that this campaign can and will build on the successes of earlier groups, but will not be the last such campaign as the work is never over. I wish them luck.