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Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: delalluvia on November 30, 2007, 10:20:40 pm ---She talks about her daughter getting on welfare and having her baby on the public dole at a community hospital as perfectly fine and normal.
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Unfortunately I think this sort of attitude isn't exactly rare. I mean, I've read about young women in certain communities whose goal--goal--was to graduate from high school and go on welfare (at least they wanted to graduate from high school).
And about others who think that having a baby before they are old enough to have a driver's license gives them status in their community.
I mean, WTF? ??? :P
injest:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on November 30, 2007, 11:23:25 pm ---Unfortunately I think this sort of attitude isn't exactly rare. I mean, I've read about young women in certain communities whose goal--goal--was to graduate from high school and go on welfare (at least they wanted to graduate from high school).
And about others who think that having a baby before they are old enough to have a driver's license gives them status in their community.
I mean, WTF? ??? :P
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I have a friend that worked in a Kmart.....she said a couple of teenage girls (both with babies and one pregnant) came in and got mad cause they couldn't return their crap and were sneering at her and one told the other..."We may be on welfare but at least we aren't working at KMART!!"
OY!!
so being on welfare is better than working for a living....
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: injest on November 30, 2007, 11:53:15 pm ---"We may be on welfare but at least we aren't working at KMART!!"
OY!!
so being on welfare is better than working for a living....
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Geez. ... :-\ Sigh. ... :(
delalluvia:
If something terrible has happened in one's life and one needs the parachute of welfare and community hospitalization - that's one thing.
But this isn't that sort of thing. The daughter's situation was COMPLETELY preventable.
She is just displaying the irresponsibility, selfishness and complete lack of ability to learn anything from experience - my friend was widowed young. Her daughter certainly remembers how hard it was trying to live on a single woman's salary.
And what does she do? Get herself knocked up when she has no job, no money, no stable relationship with the father, has not finished her degree, has no real job skills, no means by which to raise a child properly much less pay for the pre-natal care required for a healthy baby. She has shown none of the foresight, planning and maturity that raising a child is going to demand.
I've no idea why her mother is optimistic about her daughter's ability to raise a child and make her relationship with her boyfriend 'work'. ::)
injest:
can you say "Denial"??
I think most people do live in a fantasy world half the time
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