(June 9, 2017 at 12:09 am)Nymphadora Wrote:(June 8, 2017 at 11:58 pm)Sterben Wrote: I was trying so hard not to laugh, sorry for the censored address. I don't tell anyone outside of commence on the internet where I live, I hope you understand. I was kind of confused on what message planned parenthood is trying to promote. If their trying to say don't have children, they don't need group actives. All they need to do is have some teenage mothers and fathers speak on stage. That will scare some sense into them and maybe avoid the harsh lesson, that having children very early life will ruin your life.bold mine.
This isn't necessarily always the case. Rob's mom had him when she was 14. She stayed in school as long as she could, worked two jobs, married the father of her son and continued to work hard to give him a good life. She raised a good guy. He's not always the most romantic guy, but he's hard working and he always signs up for overtime at work. She divorced his dad when Rob was little, but that's not to say that she did a terrible job at raising him. And before anyone asks - her mom helped some, but Rob was always his own mother's responsibility.
I'm not for promoting teen pregnancy at all, mind you, but there are cases in which the children who are born to teens, turn out just fine. A young parent isn't always a shitty parent and I know plenty of parents who waited until later in life and they turned out to be shitty parents.
Shitty parents are just shitty people, and age isn't a primary factor there, but raising children is a huge responsibility and children shouldn't be burdened with such pressure (yes, 14 is a child as far as I am concerned). The parent might do a good job raising the child, but in order to do so, they most often end up sacrificing their own lives.
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