We need to do something about women like Rebecca Stevenson, we need to do it fast and we need the assistance and co-operation of the only people in society who can do something that will actually make a difference…men.

That’s right – men. Rebecca Stevenson is one of an all too common breed that blights our community these days – deadbeat women who have multiple children to multiple men and then drag them up in a haze of squalor and rank irresponsible immorality. Rebecca Stevenson is 22, has four kids to three men and one night not long ago locked all four of those kids in her dingy council-owned flat and went out binging on alcohol and drugs for 24 hours. The ages of those children ranged from 12 weeks to four years and they were discovered in the most chaotic state after the four year old leaned out of the window crying for her mother.

The children were found filthy, dehydrated, starving and – though unbelievably – alive. The baby was in the worst condition having not been fed since the day before, police found heartbreaking evidence that the four year old had climbed a ladder to reach a tin of milk formula placed out of reach on a high cupboard so that she could try and feed her baby brother. The children were filthy and extremely distressed, the flat was a pigsty and had not been cleaned for what appeared to be a long time. This woman, Stevenson, turned up hung over and out of it, 24 hours later – by which time her children could very well have been dead had the little girls screams not been heard.

Just what does it take to get through to women like this…? certainly no court because a magistrate has just handed her a 20 week suspended sentence with an 8 week night time curfew – why was this woman not given a custodial sentence…? she deliberately placed her children in a dangerous and potentially tragic situation as well as from the clear evidence that showed the children were malnourished and in a neglected state of welfare. Let’s not make any excuses for women like this – four children under four with the two youngest born within a period of 15 months suggests a lifestyle of sexual irresponsibility and the complete inability to care for herself let alone those children.

The parenting course she is being made to undertake is a joke – some women are just not cut out for motherhood or the intelligence to deal with the consequences that go with having unprotected sex with a variety of men. Taking these children off them is one start, mandatory sterilisation is another option though find one politician with the courage to even raise the issue. Call me simplistic, even naive, but are there any men out there willing to take a lot more responsibility for the children they help to create with women like Rebecca Stevenson?

Not  merely in a financial or emotional sense, but by simply avoiding sleeping with women such as her like the plague!