Aug 25, 2009 21:56
I hope this does not come out as me being heartless...
I do not understand humans.
There is someone in another community I belong to defending public healthcare by stating all that is wrong with her. Yes, I do have a heart and believe everyone who is a citizen should get proper health care. But in her ramblings about her poor health and her depression that makes her cause harm to herself and others, and her living under the poverty level she comes out with how she is expecting a child in a couple months?
Uhh.. Hello??? McFly!
1. She states she can not afford to live.
THEN WHY BRING AN INNOCENT CHILD INTO THIS?
2. She states she HARMS herself and others.
WTF?? Great place for a baby to be.
I did not post a reply to this person. Yet.
But it has bothered me all day thinking there are so many people in this world who live life this way. Serious, why have a child if you are so poor you can't make ends meet? Why burden this gift of life with such heartache from the get go? Life is hard. Why start a babies life if you can not pay to make it as wonderful as possible?
YES.. I understand accidents happen, but shit, in this day and age they shouldn't. If you can not afford a condom, you sure as hell will not be able to afford a child.
And if you do wind up knocked up with money issues, and medical issues and mental issues, wouldn't it be in the child's best interest to be raised by someone who CAN afford them, and is stable enough not to harm them?
Yea, yea, yea... poor people should be allowed to have children too.. I suppose. But I do not understand why someone would willingly bring a child into poverty, excepting the tax dollar to pay for them.
I can see aiding a family with food stamps, WIC, and even subsidized daycare for families or single women trying to earn a living. But if you are completely unable to provide anything for your child, why is it be everyone else owes it to you?