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> But I also don't understand why someone who doesn't really need
> to would want to have children and then not take care of them.

Janine,
Where I sub, this is the case all the time. The number of kids not
being taken care of by their parents, granparents or guardians is
amazing. Kids in most of the elementary schools come to school at
8Am and do not go home until 5:30 or 6 PM because they do an after-
school program in the school every day except for Friday. That
seems like a CRAZY amount of time to have to spend in the same place
- for a kid and an adult. But then again, perhaps they are better
off in the school for all this time as opposed to going home. I can
see how this helps a parent who works until 5 or 6 o'clock because
chances are, the wages that parent makes are not enough to pay for
private after school care. But I'm digressing here.

Many of the paraprofessionals in my school district are 19 and 20
years old with 2 kids already and no husband. The young girls keep
having babies. Even after they have one, they have yet another.
Those children are the ones the teachers are going to have to
handle. What MAY happen is that they have sex, get pregnant, and
then accept the outcome and have the child - but it happens over and
over again. And as far as preventing pregnancies, there is probably
little motivation to because well, that's what we are supposed to do
right? have sex and have kids. And it's not like it's a big deal to
them because everybody else is doing it. It is a cycle that keeps
repeating itself, although I have heard that the trend for this is
slowly going down.

Hermione

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