Well said card, I also have strong views on this but my brain was too frazzled to reply to this post yesterday. The goverment, People and capitalism in general are allways looking for people to blame for what is wrong with society. If its not teen mothers it will be gays or blacks or some other minority group. While we concentrate on what is supposedly wrong with these groups we are not looking at what the goverment is doing wrong. Its good to see someone of youre age posting such intelegant observations most of the young people I know are too busy editing their profiles on b bo. If youre interested there is an amazing film about teenage pregnancy called "juno" Its an American indie film which has been a big hit in this country, Itll make you laugh a lot too.
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Card you will make friends when you meet the right people. I used to feel quite lonely and isolated when i was growing up, I had all these thaughts feelings and opinions that I didnt know how to deal with or how to relate to other people. I just found that being honest with myself and others got me there in the end. Just keep it real and be true to youself and you will have more be bo friends requests than you can shake a stick at(though im sure someone like you will want more from life somehow)
Ps do you know how I send a friends request on here
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Its just under the avatar picture "Add [username] to Your Buddy List"
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Rubbish! How can you learn about life by having a baby?! There's no way a 16 year old is emotionally mature enough to cope with bringing up a child. And what about the cost of raising a baby? Very few teen mums work, so it's us that ends up covering the cost.
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The topic of teenage/single mothers is always a contentious one and there are one or two things which bother me about it.
Young, single mothers are subjected to scorn, ridicule and insults, whereas nobody seems to have anything to say about the feckless b#st#rds who get them pregnant in the first place and then just disappear, shirking all responsibility as they go.
It saddens me that so many teenager girls are left to bring up babies before they've had the chance to do something with their lives. The fact is that historically, a woman's lot in life revolved around housekeeping and child rearing, so early and multiple pregnancies were commonplace. All that was supposed to have changed long ago.
I think that the prospect of having a child would make you grow up pretty quickly, but that doesn't mean you would necessarily be mature enough to handle it. Real maturity comes with age and life experience; you can't just think your way into it.
Even the most level-headed or physically mature teenagers are still kids in so many ways that the thought having kids of their own shouldn't even be on the horizon until they're in their twenties.
However, things are different in reality, and it's about time that society stopped treating them as the scapegoat for all it's woes.
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