Even a law requiring schools to teach sex ed is falling short in a state with one of the highest teen pregnancy rates in the U.S.TUNICA, Miss. - Marie Barnard was delighted when, after decades of silence on the topic, Mississippi passed a law requiring school districts to teach sex education. But the lesson involving the Peppermint Pattie wasn't
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And they wonder why I never want to visit.
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My mom told us outright she didn't care about being a 'grandma', and if she never was, it was fine with her. Two of us have had one kid (and both late in life), and the other two none, and she's happy as a clam.
It's not like the human race is going to die out or anything.
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Oh, but there's plenty of bellyaching about having more mouths to feed. They're just so much in love with the idea of babies and so distanced from the reality, even the elders who have raised a couple generations. Every time I talk to them my tubes shrivel a little more.
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Ugh.
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No one came out of a sense of "wow that's great!" but my dad. My mom showed up, when she heard there were snacks, but no one else came.
A few months later, when my cousin had her 4th baby, by a fourth different man (who they were "oh so in love, he's so good for her!") who split a few weeks after the kid was born was attended by almost every member of my extended family.
When my brother graduated college, three years ago, it was the same story, just parents, grandparents (when we bought them tickets) and a few extended relatives who were within 20 minutes drive showed up. "After all, it's not like you're getting married or having a baby."
The only events that seem to matter. -___-
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It blows my mind that spreading one's legs is somehow considered to be a praiseworthy accomplishment--because for the average pregnant teenage girl that's what getting pregnant boils down to. (For some, including myself, pregnancy is a hard won goal that takes years of actual EFFORT--but not for the kids we're talking about here.)
A teenage pregnancy a miracle from God? Yeah, no. Freaking N-O NO.
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Thanks for the congrats :) In all honesty the only approval I needed was from my father, who got to see me get my hood a few months before he died. Made up for all those years of crap grades and him being more and more convinced my life was going nowhere.
So far I have one female cousin who's now in her twenties and managed to avoid the whole teen pregnancy thing, and she seems to have no interest in popping them out, so there might be hope yet.
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