You can stop reading there. It started out like it was going to be a feel-good story about a girl overcoming her environment to succeed in life. But when you are 17 and pregnant and the father is nowhere to be found, you know that the story is not going to have a happy ending.
Title is misleading. The college trap?
What college trap?
Every reputable study has shown that if you avoid having irresponsible sex, don’t get pregnant and marry later in life, you have a good chance to escape poverty.
But liberals think its ok for young people to mess up their lives and there should be no consequences for it and moreover the taxpayers should be expected to ratify their wrong choices with their money.
Next thing we’ll hear is they need a free college education. I can just see the pitch coming.
IIRC, she was of two minds - great for the girl, but does society really want to cheer on a unmarried, not yet legally an adult that can be taken as an example of it being an "okay" practice among the yet to graduate student populace?
Nothing about what the future holds for those that will be tripped up by a more than likely poverty predictor.