Lizzie

In a perfect world everything that you say makes a lot of sense. Unfortunately we live in the real world, where the money to put into practice your ideas is NEVER going to be made available, no matter how much we want it, as governments will always find other ways to use it and the general population will squeal if they have to pay more taxes to get it.

We live in a world where you have to pass a test to drive a car but where anyone, regardless of their suitability, can have a child and raise it and where, unless you really do go over the top with neglect or cruelty, no-one is going to interfere with the raising of that child. Can you imagine the outcry if we had to prove that we could be good parents before being allowed to procreate?

This is not a new phenomenon. We have slightly more safety nets now than was the case in earlier centuries, but there are always going to be the unfortunates who will not have good parental guides and who will, for whatever reason, find themselves in a situation where selling their bodies seems to be the only option that they have. I wish it were not so, but wishing won't make it so. In those circumstances it would surely be preferable that the working conditions for these people were made as safe and secure as was possible.

That doesn't interfere with your dream - it just makes reality a little bit safer for those who need it.