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No, bringing a child into poverty when you are 14 is a poor lifestyle choice.
Of course it is. Someone needs to explain that to the fourteen year old who's mother was also 14 when she did it. And if you live in the darkest deepest hood, lifestyle "choice" is not a given when you're a minor.
I've thought about this controversial issue for quite sometime.
I'm a black American woman that simply can not understand why so many poor urban women continue to have children, without any male support. Obviously, the overall rapid decay of vast urban communities, seem to prove that single parent homes are ineffective. Sadly, the children almost always end up either dead or in jail.
Given the grim circumstances, why do urban women continue to have out of wedlock children, without any male assistance or help from their male partners?
Of course it is. Someone needs to explain that to a the fourteen year old who's mother was also 14 when she did it. And if you live in the darkest deepest hood, lifestyle "choice" is not a given when you're a minor.
I know, but we are making progress. Teen pregnancy is at an all time low.
Being a 14 year old born into poverty is a "poor lifestyle choice"?
Obviously it is. It requires parents -- or make that parent that cannot figure out how to set a curfew or monitor what a young daughter is doing or who she's spending her time with, or who is using her for sex. It requires lack of parenting in teaching a daughter why she should learn to say "no".
It's not something that just happens, it is a lifestyle choice. Just like marriage, deciding that a life partner to help raise and support a child is also a lifestyle choice.
Obviously it is. It requires parents -- or make that parent that cannot figure out how to set a curfew or monitor what a young daughter is doing or who she's spending her time with, or who is using her for sex. It requires lack of parenting in teaching a daughter why she should learn to say "no".
It's not something that just happens, it is a lifestyle choice. Just like marriage, deciding that a life partner to help raise and support a child is also a lifestyle choice.
Meh, I knocked up my ex when she was 13. She had two parents, went to church, and went to private school. My friend had sex with the preacher's daughter when she was 14. My first threesome was with a girl that had a mom working for a Lutheran church.
Sex is a normal human interaction. That's why abstinence programs don't work.
Kind of like how your side doesn't know the difference between science and theology, no?
Kind of like LWNJ's deflecting constantly when they lose an argument on here.....
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