Reply #11: Just heartbreaking...

[Withywindle]

...and so many overprotective white upper-middle-class fundie parents freak out if their kids "lose their innocence" by a glimpse of porn on the Internet or something. So many kids out there never got a chance to have any innocence in the first place.

I was much more fortunate with my family, but I grew up in an isolated rural place too and knew a lot of kids who had nothing at home -- and nowhere else to go. It's easy to say teens are being melodramatic when they say they have no hope, but lots of 'em feel it for real and aren't wrong.

Thanks for posting that. It needed to be heard.