Sir, Since he seems to believe that the largesse paid by the State to unmarried mothers ends up in pubs, what would your correspondent, Michael MacCoisdealbh, think of contraceptives in the beer as a solution to this problem? Mightn't do a lot for the "pattern of immorality in which these young girls engage" (where have all the young men gone?), but perhaps we could for get about that if it stopped hitting us in our bank balances.
Then again a simpler solution might be a return to the "good old days" when we exported this type of "problem" to America and the cost was largely in human misery rather than taxpayers' cash. Yours, etc., Oulton Road, Clontarf Dublin 3.