Conversation with a friend

One of my idiot highschool classmates (K.) managed to get herself knocked up and married. She was already having problems with the guy. What's worse is that I think K. did it on purpose. I was talking with another of my friends and we had a long discussion involving girls (and sometimes guys) who think that a marriage ring and/or a child will magically fix any relationship problem. Hello! Kids just make relationships worse! They are an added stress, if you already can't get along, a kid isn't going to bring you closer together, it's going to drive both of you insane. Plus it really isn't fair to the child to be brought up in that sort of situation. That baby isn't going to fix K.'s relationship. It isn't going to make the guy magically like her. Neither the ring nor the baby is going to make him stick around if he was thinking about breaking up with her before she got knocked up. Stupidity all around.

Annoying thing number 5678... girls who have babies because 'no one loves them.' The baby of course will love her. *sarcasm* If you don't love yourself, no one else will love you. Not the baby, not the guy three times your age you had sex with, not even your mom who ends up caring for the kid. Any girl who thinks that way need major mental help.

This side rant was brought to you by K.'s stupidity and my nice conversation with a friend today.

Another note, they've discovered that the majority of teen mothers are not ruining their lives because they didn't really have a life to look forward to anyways. 10 years down the road studies which compare teenage moms with their sisters discover that they're all in the same income bracket. Why put off having a kid if it isn't going to make a difference in your perspective opportunities anyways? Perhaps instead of trying to prevent pregnancies we could work on the poverty issue. Preventing poverty might prevent pregnancies more than preventing pregnancies prevents poverty. (did that make sense?)