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Originally Posted by Icansavedaily  Get real. Babies are created the same way at all ages. The article does not say that all low birth weight babies are born to teenage mothers.
There have ALWAYS been teenage mothers and fathers and there always will be. What I don't understand is the statement that they all seem happy, is there a problem with that? Are they to wear sack cloth and ashes and cry woe is me?
We all know that these girls have a hard time and would have had an easier time of it if they started their families under different circumstances but who has a trouble free life? For every pregnant girl there is a guy involved. Some times the guy has multiple girls pregnant at the same time. Where are the articles on that?
These are human beings in a human situation and while maybe not to your liking for them it is a reality. If you can help them, help them, if they repulse you just walk around them and keep going. Don't kick people when they are down. We have done that long enough. |
Wow - I don't think that my post really deserved that response. I never said that anything repulsed me - where in the heck did you get that?
As for myself, when I was a teenager, I would not have been at all happy to be pregnant or having a baby. I would be "woe is me" because it would mean that it would have been extremely difficult to meet the goals I had for myself and also that my parents, extended family, teachers, and family friends would have been quite disappointed in me. We would have made choices and made the best of them, but it would not have been a cake walk.
My personal opinion is that many, not all, but many, of these girls get pregnant on purpose as they are looking for love any way that they can get it - and sometimes that's in the form of a baby. And yes, I believe that's a tragedy.....and that teenage pregnancy is on the rise, after many years of falling, is troubling to me.
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P.S. for Catherine the lucylover, missing the "n" in Palin was a typo.....which I make every now and then. I have a really high incidence of flipping my n and g when I type too fast also. But I think that, by and large, my posts are readable by the majority of the audience here. That's to say that I don't have a lot of people expressing grief over them. Sometimes when many people point out the same thing, it's time to step back and realize that there might be some truth to what they're saying. The choice is yours as to what to do with it.....but I would be taking a long hard look at myself if I were you.