Yeah, I was about to say something about how some kind of ad campaign going "I got pregnant by accident (at [age]), but/and now I'm going to be a competent, loving and awesome mom to my baby," along with links to things like employment assistance, parenting education, support groups, counseling, and all the other stuff that might help a young mother stay in school, go to college, provide for herself and her child, and otherwise attain financial success while being a young and likely single parent, might be a really good way of fighting the extent to which teen motherhood can be a path to poverty (and the stigma attached to it, and young women's feelings of helplessness/shame/hopelessness/etc), but then . . . oh.
(moar OT: my parents turned on the TV and woke me up this morning (we were in a hotel room) and it was Fox News pundits complaining about a proposed law about not being able to make arrests based on race, ethnicity, et cetera, and whining that this would somehow make it impossible for police to arrest anyone and violent crime would go up. I think I set a new record bolting for the bathroom.)
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(moar OT: my parents turned on the TV and woke me up this morning (we were in a hotel room) and it was Fox News pundits complaining about a proposed law about not being able to make arrests based on race, ethnicity, et cetera, and whining that this would somehow make it impossible for police to arrest anyone and violent crime would go up. I think I set a new record bolting for the bathroom.)
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Lol, I'm /so/ glad Fox News doesn't exist in the UK, I can't believe people take them seriously, they're so OTT extreme in everything.
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