You took the words right out of my mouth!!!!!!!!!! Where I teach we are having a baby shower for a teacher assistant this week.... she is having her 3rd child w/ a third different man.
Last week at the table in the cafeteria a little girl said,”Mrs...., My baby brother’s daddy has 12 kids and two on the way!” She is 7 & as sweet and innocent as they come. My face froze in a smile/grimace & I mumbled something lame.
She was so proud.
We live in the state w/ the highest number of single parent/ teen births in the country. I’m a big proponent of birth control, but it seems that only responsible people are using it.
No end in sight, no end in sight.
Is that what they call a tautology?
You have to live in WA state. We are the single parent capital of the country.
My partner got mixed up with a woman that actually finds men, dates them, has sex with them in order to get pregnant, and then has the kid.
The father finds out if a) he’s got money and can pay child support, or b) never finds out if he doesn’t.
This lady’s got three, just got pregnant, and is now about to ‘marry’ some loser to do it all over again.
One of the best paralegals there is. She’s brilliant, actually, and very, very sick. A real predator.
You have to look at things economically. There is a set supply and demand that naturally occurs, then when you introduce birth control, you only change one of the factors. You still have a woman wanting to nurture and rear a child, and her desire for a strong man who is capable of providing, but you have removed the price restriction on sex, and now it's cheap, and untied from childbearing.
The result is an imbalance of factors that are further imbalanced by government programs looking to put a band-aid on the problem (subsidizing single motherhood). I heard that we doubled the percentage of out of wedlock births in the last 15 years even while teen birth rates are down.