"a girl is locked up longer and in a more restrictive facility than a boy even if the girl commits the same offense"

What they are surprised? There are numberous studies that adult women are given much large sentences then males with the same crime/history. The country has issues with females committing violent crimes, it makes them uncomfortable. Yes women commit fewer crimes, but people need to wake up to the fact that women can commit every crime a guy can - and that the sentencing should be equal regardless of gender - attitude problems of the judge aside.

It was also pointed out in several studies that since women's prisons are less crowded, women tend to server their full sentence, but in crowded male prisons - males can be released early due to crowding, which makes the difference in male/female time in prison for the same crime even more off. She has a longer sentence , and will serve all of it, the guy with the same crime will have a shorter sentence and depending where he is in the country may not serve all of his time.

This is non-news, there have been studies on this for the last 20+ years. Is it just news because now they are doing a report on juveniles?

The people adopting these kids, know they were black market - ie stolen from someone. People like that shouldn't be parents. What are they going to tell the kids when they get older, in the day of DNA - no way can they keep the secret forever, and the kids are going to know they were stolen.

But then what about people who buy eggs? The drugs used to ovulate are not FDA approved for that use, and frequently due permant harm to the young women who took 1000$ to do it. In some rare cases it has caused death --- but this unregulated industry doesn't keep track of health problems of donors, and it is not required by law to do so, so it is hard to know how many have been harmed. (Not talking about folks using their own eggs or know the donor personally )

Or people who go to India for a surrogate mom from the lower caste. 5000$US They can have a poor woman carry their kid. Do you think a women in a culture where she is property really has a say in the matter?

What do these 3 things have in common? Desperate people who want to be parents, who would do anything to be parents, who lie to themselves that they are not harming anyone , or the child would be better off with them.

In each case they are harming a 3rd party - and they are not fit to be parents. Parents who haven't really thought through what they are going to say to the kid when they are older.

Does anybody know what the fertility rate is like among the Roma? Bulgaria's population is decreasing in general, but I don't know about that particular group.

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In this article and other ones about the topic, it mentioned the ages of the saved women, they were all in their early 20's. I doubt very much the Roma are more fertile than other groups, but other groups like the Greek couples buying stolen baby's probably waited until they were past 30 to try and have their first kid (lets face it, modern people can't afford to start before then) and hit a biological fact, their fertility was declining. Now if they'd tried in their early 20's odds are they'd of gotten pregnant the old fashion way.

This article and the other ones kind of mention that Roma's don't really part-take in the modern economy and live in ghetto like poverty. There is no incentive to wait to have kids later, if it makes no difference to your way of life, like it does to mainstream couples.

How convent to have a group of people having babies who live in terrible poverty, so the people buying their babies can justify to themselves that they are doing the babies a favor raising them in their nice middle class homes.

(aside - wasn't the old wives-tale that it was the gypsies that stole babies, not the other way around?)

If a very young girl gets pregnant (and it is not stranger rape) - there is probably something wrong with that family to start with, and to require their support for an abortion, is just double victimizing the young girl.

Not to mention the danger to the life of a young girl - 11,12,13 having a baby, unlike a fully grown woman, the odds of going full term, killing the girl are way higher than the general population, then the same parents whose young daughter got pregnant will be raising their orphaned grandchild, want to bet they don't get it right the second time either?

Crap like this just makes me sick. Also what about foster kids? These kids were taken from their biological parents for good reason, bet the law is not well thought out, and doesn't spell out how kids not in parental care can get medical care leaving the case worker or foster parent up a creek - worried about jail time. What a joke. No one really cares about the kids in cases like this, it is just a bunch of religious crazed adults, up in arms over non-issues - (oh my god they are going to take my guns, and the baby my girl was having with her bother, they are going to abort - those terrible "THEY").

Healthy normal folks, have kids that talk to them about problems, and young women in healthy families if they are getting pregnant are probably closer to legal age, and intelligent enough to know their own mind and trust their parents with these problems. Then the young girls who will be victimized by this law. If your kids don't come to you with a problem this big, what kind of a parent are you????