rant
I don't care if people have sex. Everyone is entitled to do what they want with their body.
Some people wait. Fine. Some people don't. That's fine too.
HOWEVER, if you are going to have sex, you need to be able to accept the responsibility of a baby. This is because *big shock* PREGNANCY can result from sexual intercourse. Bottom line.
I work with 3 pregnant people (but only 2 I am going to discuss because they actually work in the pharmacy part with me, the other is up in the front store). The 2 that work in the back with me think that they are entitled to sit around and do nothing simply because they are pregnant. And it pisses me off. The one is about 10 weeks and isn't even showing yet. The other is almost 5 months. So they are not even big yet. It just sucks because they sit and take break after break after break, leaving the other 1 or 2 people trying to pick up their slack.
This leads me to another point: WELFARE.
For whatever reason, the girls of SVHS as well as many recent graduates have decided that having a baby while still in high school (or soon after graduation) is a spendid idea. I have news for you. IT'S NOT.
I understand that the pill doesn't always work. I understand that condoms sometimes break. I understand that accidents happen. I'm not referring to that, because statistically, that should, does, and will happen to some people. So that doesn't bother me, because the effort to be careful is there. These people will generally try to continue with their life and try to be something. They will go back to school and get married. The pregnancy was just another hurdle of life.
What bothers me is the dumbasses in pseudo-serious relationships that quit taking the pill on purpose or poke holes in the condoms because they think it would be a ton of fun to be a teenage parent. These are the people that generally spend their lives working in fast food chains (and the like), throwing their bastard child around to whoever has a spare second to watch over it, and depend on the state to pay for all of their shit. Why? Because they wanted to be a mommy.
I work in a pharmacy and every single day I see people abusing Medicaid. I have no problem with people having it when they need it or having it until they can get back on their feet or whatever as long as the need is actually there. Too often though I see people who come in on 10/15/20 different things and pay a total of 5 bucks for all of it and I know that they are making no effort whatso ever to change their "unforunate" situation.
Anyway, I just don't think that purposely being a mommy at age 16/17/18/19 qualifies for anything other than a bitch slap across the face.
Some people wait. Fine. Some people don't. That's fine too.
HOWEVER, if you are going to have sex, you need to be able to accept the responsibility of a baby. This is because *big shock* PREGNANCY can result from sexual intercourse. Bottom line.
I work with 3 pregnant people (but only 2 I am going to discuss because they actually work in the pharmacy part with me, the other is up in the front store). The 2 that work in the back with me think that they are entitled to sit around and do nothing simply because they are pregnant. And it pisses me off. The one is about 10 weeks and isn't even showing yet. The other is almost 5 months. So they are not even big yet. It just sucks because they sit and take break after break after break, leaving the other 1 or 2 people trying to pick up their slack.
This leads me to another point: WELFARE.
For whatever reason, the girls of SVHS as well as many recent graduates have decided that having a baby while still in high school (or soon after graduation) is a spendid idea. I have news for you. IT'S NOT.
I understand that the pill doesn't always work. I understand that condoms sometimes break. I understand that accidents happen. I'm not referring to that, because statistically, that should, does, and will happen to some people. So that doesn't bother me, because the effort to be careful is there. These people will generally try to continue with their life and try to be something. They will go back to school and get married. The pregnancy was just another hurdle of life.
What bothers me is the dumbasses in pseudo-serious relationships that quit taking the pill on purpose or poke holes in the condoms because they think it would be a ton of fun to be a teenage parent. These are the people that generally spend their lives working in fast food chains (and the like), throwing their bastard child around to whoever has a spare second to watch over it, and depend on the state to pay for all of their shit. Why? Because they wanted to be a mommy.
I work in a pharmacy and every single day I see people abusing Medicaid. I have no problem with people having it when they need it or having it until they can get back on their feet or whatever as long as the need is actually there. Too often though I see people who come in on 10/15/20 different things and pay a total of 5 bucks for all of it and I know that they are making no effort whatso ever to change their "unforunate" situation.
Anyway, I just don't think that purposely being a mommy at age 16/17/18/19 qualifies for anything other than a bitch slap across the face.