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OK, lets be fair here. If my dd became pregnant in high school I wouldn't jump for joy. And lets face it....teenage parenthood is kinda like a punishment. Life is harder, the chances of going to college gets slimmer, marrying the boy jumps the chances of divorce, but more likely then not the boy skates and the girl is stuck with all the responsibility. To take what obama said on this any other way is to make a mountain over a mole hill.
There are two people I am very close to who can tell you it is not punishment, and for two very different reasons.
First, my best friend in high school, Cathy. She got pregnant our junior year. She wasn't a "sl*t", she was severely misguided, as a lot of 17 year olds are. She had a baby, who is now 19 and is the light of her life. Was it hard? Yes. Would she change it? No. She is so proud of her daughter and she loves her life just as it is.
The second example would be my sister. She had an abortion at 17. She is now 40 and unable to have children. She is reminded of this every time she sees my two beautiful girls and it breaks her heart.
These are the decisions we make in life; who is to say Bristol's will be horrible as a result of hers? No one can. You work with the values you have to create a life that is perfect for you, and that is what she is doing. Punishment? Hardly. That Obama jumps the gun and automatically sees childbirth and babies as punishment in a teenager tells me a lot about his values.
OK, lets be fair here. If my dd became pregnant in high school I wouldn't jump for joy. And lets face it....teenage parenthood is kinda like a punishment. Life is harder, the chances of going to college gets slimmer, marrying the boy jumps the chances of divorce, but more likely then not the boy skates and the girl is stuck with all the responsibility. To take what obama said on this any other way is to make a mountain over a mole hill.
Clearly he was advocating sex education, including abstinence as well as contraception....had he been talking about abortion it would sound more as OP wishes us to hear.
I see your point too, that the risks and odds are just stacked up against teen moms, especially those without a very strong family support system.
What I want to know is why we aren't hearing more about the adoption option? You may not be able to stop teen pregnancy but you can stop some of these young girls (and their babies) from becoming statistics.
You may not be able to stop teen pregnancy but you can stop some of these young girls (and their babies) from becoming statistics.
Then the children become statistics. Our school system limits education on sex, behavior and parenting. Our media does not, nor do the television programs that are allowed to air. Maybe a reversal needs to be accomplished to eliminate the tv programming and ultimate education sources in school.
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