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Originally posted by futuregreek
somebody said: "I think, for me, this would be the issue. If i were in an undergraduate chapter how are 18, 19 and 20 years olds who are at college to get an education suppose to relate to someone who has a baby and has to deal with (ie illness, other stuff). "
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just curious, let's say a PNM had a serious illness...just because others can't relate to that, does that make her less of a candidate?
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It would not make her less of a candidate, but when i was an undergraduate (not to give away membership selection secrets) but when we discussed whoto give bids to we talked about how would these women relate to each other. My statement was directed to that idea. From my own experience i had a very hard time at the age of 20 to relate to my best friend who was pregnaunt and then when she had her baby. From my experience, i was stating, How can 18 to 20 year old relate to someone who was pregnaunt/already had a child simple cause a women with a child is dealing with issues that most women that age had not dealt with.
Also, i was trying to make the point that I, and probably many college students, went to college to get the college experience and my friend who had the baby could not experience those things cause she had a baby to take care of.
Now, would my friend make a good addition to a sorority, make grades, be the type of person who would get involved. Yes. But she had a major change (ie having the baby) that i think that many 18 year old could not relate to and thus i don't think would be best addition when putting together a new member class.
I here all these arguments about how women can do these things and how they found support from their sisters. Great, but just from my experience I think that the average 18 year old member of a new member class would have a hard time relating to the things that a new mom/mom to be had to deal with. And that would be the important issue to me when voting on a candidate.
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