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Topic: Teen Pregnancy
Lynann's photo
Fri 09/05/08 09:35 AM
I am all for showing pregnant teens compassion but not the way compassionate conservatives do.

What would I do about teen pregnancy if I had the chance to address it? Here are a few things I would do just to start. There's more too.

* Sex education programs
* Medical care for pregnant teens
* Mentoring programs that show kids what is possiable if they wait to have sex or reproduce
* Free contraception available to all
* Programs that encourage young fathers to stay with the mother of their children.
* Workfare not welfare
* Provide safe and reliable child care so people can work

You can post a story about how teen pregnancy has worked out positively for you. That's great but it is the exception to the rule that the numbers clearly show. I don't want to condemn teen mothers. I want their stories to turn out like the good ones some of you have posted here instead of turning out badly, as the facts prove most do.

I am not an idealist or a moralist. I am not condemning anyone except maybe the people who want babies born but who don't seem to care if they are healthy or if they have a future.

I would like to see everyone do a lot less judging and much more hands on work to make the lives of both teen parents and their off-spring better.


TJN's photo
Fri 09/05/08 10:37 AM

I am all for showing pregnant teens compassion but not the way compassionate conservatives do.

What would I do about teen pregnancy if I had the chance to address it? Here are a few things I would do just to start. There's more too.

* Sex education programs
* Medical care for pregnant teens
* Mentoring programs that show kids what is possiable if they wait to have sex or reproduce
* Free contraception available to all
* Programs that encourage young fathers to stay with the mother of their children.
* Workfare not welfare
* Provide safe and reliable child care so people can work

You can post a story about how teen pregnancy has worked out positively for you. That's great but it is the exception to the rule that the numbers clearly show. I don't want to condemn teen mothers. I want their stories to turn out like the good ones some of you have posted here instead of turning out badly, as the facts prove most do.

I am not an idealist or a moralist. I am not condemning anyone except maybe the people who want babies born but who don't seem to care if they are healthy or if they have a future.

I would like to see everyone do a lot less judging and much more hands on work to make the lives of both teen parents and their off-spring better.


They do have programs its a matter if people are willing to take the time to use them

TJN's photo
Fri 09/05/08 10:38 AM


I'm a father of 2. divorced after 8 years of marriage does that mean I have no chace of having a fullfilling life and my children have no chance to make something of themselves?



Lmao, if you think it means that for you well I've been divorced for 17 years with 2 kids what does that say for me.:laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

Ohh by the way mine are grown and yes my son and his g/f had a little girl by the time they were 18. Not only have they taken responsibility and taken care of her. Not ever having to go on the system due to other family members helping out including myself they lived with me for 2 years. Yes they are no longer together but......Kaitlynn comes first. And I have never regretted having a loving grand daughter come into my life.

In the first place this Topic started off about Teen pregnancy. Then with a sly part of paste and copy had to throw in what Paline's daughter's b/f said on his myspace. Humm not sure who has kids here and which ones have myspace. But some should look at them before they point fingers. All this just to tear another down for their actions. I can't say that no one in this life is without fault in what we did when we were young nor as we got older. By the words we spew out at times and then regret later.grumble noway

This is a typical 17 year old boy with a myspace that the News Median wants to hash apart just for a bit of news.

Shshs there are millions of 17 year olds with the same attitude. The kid was just saying what he felt which is not always the way we want things to come across.noway slaphead

Teen pregnancy is not something new this has been going on for 100's of years. Kids that are born to teeagers are not always the ones on the system nor abused or neglected. There are plenty of them that are well taken care of for other family members step in.

I have seen older couples that fall to take care of their kids while the younger ones were struggling to try to do the best they could.

Which would others want them to do have the child or abort them? At least they took the responsibility and bucked up for their mistakes and made the best of it that they could.

Instead of always finding fault with what a teenager does maybe just maybe if we put more effort into teaching instead of putting them down. And show them a little more compassion for the ones that are successful we would be able to make others see to take all precautions out there. But that when that don't work then to step forward and do the best they can with the situation in hand.bigsmile
Amenflowerforyou

catwoman96's photo
Fri 09/05/08 11:30 AM


I'm a father of 2. divorced after 8 years of marriage does that mean I have no chace of having a fullfilling life and my children have no chance to make something of themselves?



Lmao, if you think it means that for you well I've been divorced for 17 years with 2 kids what does that say for me.:laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

Ohh by the way mine are grown and yes my son and his g/f had a little girl by the time they were 18. Not only have they taken responsibility and taken care of her. Not ever having to go on the system due to other family members helping out including myself they lived with me for 2 years. Yes they are no longer together but......Kaitlynn comes first. And I have never regretted having a loving grand daughter come into my life.

In the first place this Topic started off about Teen pregnancy. Then with a sly part of paste and copy had to throw in what Paline's daughter's b/f said on his myspace. Humm not sure who has kids here and which ones have myspace. But some should look at them before they point fingers. All this just to tear another down for their actions. I can't say that no one in this life is without fault in what we did when we were young nor as we got older. By the words we spew out at times and then regret later.grumble noway

This is a typical 17 year old boy with a myspace that the News Median wants to hash apart just for a bit of news.

Shshs there are millions of 17 year olds with the same attitude. The kid was just saying what he felt which is not always the way we want things to come across.noway slaphead

Teen pregnancy is not something new this has been going on for 100's of years. Kids that are born to teeagers are not always the ones on the system nor abused or neglected. There are plenty of them that are well taken care of for other family members step in.

I have seen older couples that fall to take care of their kids while the younger ones were struggling to try to do the best they could.

Which would others want them to do have the child or abort them? At least they took the responsibility and bucked up for their mistakes and made the best of it that they could.

Instead of always finding fault with what a teenager does maybe just maybe if we put more effort into teaching instead of putting them down. And show them a little more compassion for the ones that are successful we would be able to make others see to take all precautions out there. But that when that don't work then to step forward and do the best they can with the situation in hand.bigsmile


excellent words

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