One can walk down the hallway of any high school in the country and see one of them. They giggle and glow as they waddle their way to classes, people instinctively making way for the round figure, the swollen stomach, the unmistakable sway that comes with their burden. Marking their binders, backpacks and wallets are the badges of ultrasound photos and they carry in hand – like street-corner prophets with Bibles – baby-naming books, nonchalantly asking strangers to give their opinions on the title for their spawn. The shame that once melded into one and the same with even the thought of the premature act now shrinks back in submission to the tyranny of politically correctness. Like animals, the youth of today act upon their base, instinctual impulses without second-thought to the consequences of their actions and nine months later another mouth is born to be fed by tax dollars that could be going to education, cancer research or other such important endeavors.

In the face of the increasing turmoil of unashamed acts, a proposal must be made as to how the nation can contain such a – quite literally – growing problem in our society. The promiscuity in our youth must be ended with militant speed and precision and so, with haste in mind, we modestly propose immediate lockdown of all public schools until preparations for our improvements are made.

First of all students, both male and female, will be made to wear ill-fitting, unflattering, long-sleeved white jumpsuits with only their last name, first initial printed on a gray label as any sort of indicator as to their identity. They will all wear gray orthopedic shoes and all vestiges of vanity – cosmetics, cologne, flattering clothes, jewelry, hair products, and the like – will be forcibly purged from each and every household in our nation. Hair will be chopped into short buzz cuts and nails will be trimmed to a respectable length.

Of course just making all of them look nearly the same could not even begin to squelch these heathens’ wanton acts of self-indulgence. At puberty – when the first voice cracks and the first spots appear on a pair of government-sanctioned panties – contraceptives will be dealt out immediately. Birth-control pills will be taught to seem like a daily candy (no longer a burden, but a welcome necessity) and condoms like shoes that you cannot imagine leaving the house without. Each morning, after white school buses pick male and female students up separately for school, they will arrive and eat mandatory breakfast where each and every female student will have a Plan B pill placed in their food. Every Monday, mandatory pregnancy tests will be administered as well as classes for the males on alternative means to quench their sexual thirst that do not involve physical contact with any of the females.

If ever a girl were actually able to get pregnant, she would be sought out by dogs bred to sniff out the smells of conception and directly placed inside a cage where she will be paraded in front of the student body and town to a government facility to wait out the full time of her pregnancy. DNA tests will be done to determine the father of the child and he will be castrated straight away in an open arena. Upon the birth of the child, the father would be required to raise it and the mother would be sent to a convent where she would have no more contact with males for the rest of her life.

You may find our ideas to be a bit extreme but you cannot talk to us as though you have any ideas that are as effective as the many that we have proposed before this. Since no one seems to want to talk about this touchy subject and how we would not have any need to venture to such lengths if more were done every day to curtail the rampant promiscuity. You can say that maybe we could try to bring shame back with teachings of morality, the sanctity of virginity and marriage, of Godly fear of damnation and hellfire, but no one has yet to ever act on these ideas. We continue to flit around the subject and allow girls to walk around with their pregnant bellies as though they were something to be proud of rather than think of it as something they should hide for the shame it brings to their family and themselves. So just try to come up with a better solution than ours and we will see how far it can go in this politically correct nation.

Imagine a world where you walk into a Wal-Mart and instead of seeing the cute little tank tops you are used to in the juniors section, you find yourself facing rack after rack of maternity clothes. As if the congestion of our stores by their loose attire were not enough, all of their children will learn to ride piggy-back on the food stamps and welfare train. None of these children will receive the education they deserve as American citizens because they will be burdened by the history of their parents and their early childhood will be marred by absentee parents who go to school or work, leaving them at home with relatives or strangers day after day. This need for attention will translate into an overall behavior issue throughout their adolescence and eventually lead to juvenile delinquency or teen pregnancy just like their parents before them. If this endless cycle is not stopped, how soon will it be before we are overpopulated by malnourished, under-educated, government-dependent miscreants who taint society with their ever present tug on the wallets of the middle class. Our modest proposal must be taken into serious consideration as we face a growing population of complacency and promiscuity.