There are so many teenagers and young adults having babies. Whether they are having them by accident, because they think they're in love or they think it's going to keep their significant other. The young ladies may not know how to care for the child due to no one showing them how to raise one. Once the child is born and they are released from the hospital, they are own their own. More recently the number of women trying or seeking the available programs has declined. This is because the tedious forms, documentation requirements, participation requirements and long processing periods discourage them from trying. Young ladies with babies and young children may not put them in school for fear of not being able to keep them clean, up to date with activities or feed them. The system is said to be designed to help them. Yet, I see young girls homeless with babies. Also, I see children not in school because the mother doesn't know the first thing about registering them in a school. How does that mother make a living for herself and her family completing all required classes or roller coaster rides the system puts her through and still pick her child up from school on time? The bus is a reliable source of transportation, but this lower to poor class can barely survive consistently, let a lone starting off.
The opposite of the above is what we see on social media and television. Where all is easily fixed with a magic wand, loaner from a parent, borrowing from a bank, cashing in some jewelry, making an appearance on a show, releasing a new video/song or some other unattainable thing by the average person. The single mother on these outlets only let the glory of motherhood show. Most of the shows have the mothers seem as if they never have a care in the world with their babies and they never had to struggle financially. Even if that were the truth, how do they make the lifestyles they are living a reachable goal for the young mothers in the above paragraph? Direction, help guidance and yes, possibly walking them hand by hand through the entire beginning process of raising and seeking assistance for babies. Once again, our children are our future and we need to give them all the opportunities available to them.
Peace & Love
The opposite of the above is what we see on social media and television. Where all is easily fixed with a magic wand, loaner from a parent, borrowing from a bank, cashing in some jewelry, making an appearance on a show, releasing a new video/song or some other unattainable thing by the average person. The single mother on these outlets only let the glory of motherhood show. Most of the shows have the mothers seem as if they never have a care in the world with their babies and they never had to struggle financially. Even if that were the truth, how do they make the lifestyles they are living a reachable goal for the young mothers in the above paragraph? Direction, help guidance and yes, possibly walking them hand by hand through the entire beginning process of raising and seeking assistance for babies. Once again, our children are our future and we need to give them all the opportunities available to them.
Peace & Love
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