Reply #150

Boy, it's as though every guy and gal who end up getting pregnant had NO idea about birth control, were NEVER told a thing about it from anyone, and had sex having NO idea a baby could happen!

I agree with the posters who say that the female has the final say, but let me tell you the reality I see where I live.

I provide early intervention services, so I'm in a lot of homes of young parents and young kids. The vast majority of kids I serve are in households with one parent, usually the mother. Dad is either one of many fathers, or not around. Mom has no job, pubic housing or assistance for housing, food stamps (EBT), WIC, and the child has Medicaid. The child I see may or may not be the only child. Mom knows she can't support one child because she doesn't have a job, and Dad just lost his job, or maybe never had one, or perhaps is incarcerated, so there's no money coming in. Mom obviously knows that she got pregnant because she didn't use birth control, she knows that she needs public assistance to keep going, but whoops!

Pregnant again.

Too bad her parents didn't have a frank talk with her.

My dilemma is that I'm a bleeding heart liberal, but even I get a little sick of the lack of personal responsibility after a while.