The problem with teen pregnancy definately needs to be dealt with, but there are some college educated adults that also need counseling about unwed pregnancies and STD's. There is a girl at my school who has a baby with a guy. She always talks about all of the places that she and this guy go to and all of the things that they do together. So all this time, I'm thinking that "It's good to finally meet a girl who speaks positively of her child's father and it seems like they have a good relationship." Okay, so the other day, I asked her what she was doing for lunch and she said that she was going out to eat with her child's father. Later on I asked her about her lunch date and she was like, "Oh, we just sat in the car and ate because he had his other baby with him." My response was, "Oh, so he had a baby with another girl before you met him?" She says, "No, this is his newborn."
I ask her, (regardless of whether it was my business or not) "Why does your boyfriend have a newborn baby, when your child is two years old and he has been your boyfriend since the birth of your child?"
She says, "Oh well everybody makes mistakes."
Okay, fine everybody does make mistakes. I let the issue go and went on to talk about something else. No sooner than we finished talking about that drama, she told me, "I need a new job because babies are so expensive and I want another one." My question, "Who are planning on having another baby with?" (I wanted to ask why she wanted "another baby" and not "the first" husband, but I try to mind my business sometimes!)
She said that she wanted to have another baby with the father of her first child.
I wanted to tell her so bad that it seems to me as though your child's father seems to have his hands full with his brand new baby and that since you just took him to court for child support LAST WEEK, you probably shouldn't even want to get involved again. If he was the least bit interested in taking care of the kids that he keeps helping to make, he wouldn't need the courts to make him pay some measly amount of child support. He would volunteer to make substantial payments for the support of his child. Ooops, I meant kids, because eventually the new "baby-mama" is going to have to drag his tired behind into the same court to collect her funds. How stupid is this whole situation? So, I say that some grown women need to sit in on that same Sex Ed class that the teenagers attend.
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