Posted on 01/25/2006 3:35:20 PM PST by grundle
Both were in love with the same young man and they had allowed him to get them both pregnant.
.....some young people still are trading the innocence of carefree youth for the awesome responsibility of raising babies.
Some make the trade willingly and without the kind of stigma that used to isolate many pregnant teens.
"I already knew I was going to have one eventually, so it wasn't a surprise," said Ashley Pitts, 19, of Duquesne, who became pregnant at 15. "There's no shame in getting pregnant. There's a lot of people who have kids. There are 17-year-olds with two kids."
Some fell in love and wanted to get pregnant. Others didn't want a baby but didn't take precautions or were careless.
Ms. Pitts, 19, took a home pregnancy test at age 15 and found out she was pregnant. She was not practicing birth control at the time.
Many boys don't take precautions, either, she said.
Most of the teen moms in the support group do not work.....
Ms. Wilson moved into her own apartment on her 18th birthday.
Many of the teen mothers wear their babies' first names tattooed on their arms, shoulders, legs or chests. They often dress their infants and toddlers in designer clothing and outfit them with 14-karat gold earrings, necklaces, bracelets and finger rings.
(Excerpt) Read more at post-gazette.com ...
Who says kids are not learning anything in schools. They are sure learning how to live off the welfare teet!
Yes, there is. Disgusting we have no morals today.
There should be.
Oh, yeah and nevermind that this poor child has no daddy in it's life or what it learns from having a mommy thats too friggin lazy to work or what it's like to grow up in poverty.
Sad that a child is just a mere toy to these morons.
Great and when there kids grow up guess what? They will be the ones on welfare and robbing people. What a great system (sarcastic)
"You ARE the father!"
My Lord, what a load of idiotic emotional twaddle.
I haven't seen this much estrogen on display in a male writer since I stopped reading Andrew Sullivan.
Hell they do this at 14 in Canada... cause momma and pappa don't love them...
Did you hear the one about FEMA putting those Katrina evacuees up in motels for months at taxpayer expense? Oh - the pounding those mattresses must be taking.
What nation on earth is as stupid as the United States of America?
So what's new?It's called generation's of welfare,and what's sad is we keep on giving more and more.
All the preaching about responsibility and "safe sex" is falling on deaf ears I guess. Teen girls have children they cant afford and enter into a life of poverty. Then we hear the media, the elites, and the race baiters scream that poverty and lack of opportunity is caused by white society. Or of course, it's Bush's fault!
Did this article say they were not white?
This happens quite often in white families too. They say you know you're in East Texas when you sit down with a family for dinner, and the father lets his 12 year old daughter smoke at the dinner table in front of her kids.
Admitedly, the odds are good the subjects of this article are black.
They can't be too poor; "They often dress their infants and toddlers in designer clothing and outfit them with 14-karat gold earrings, necklaces, bracelets and finger rings."
I shop for my kids at second-hand stores, and have never been on any government program; guess I'm the stupid one...
They're proud to be welfare whores.
parasite=One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return
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