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meatball77 wrote:

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I don't think that there are really that many people that have children with the goal of getting more welfare benefits. It's a whole lot harder to milk the system than it was (those who do milk the system do it through social security like octomom). It's more that they were brought up in a society that says that it's cool to be a "young mom" and there is nothing wrong with teen pregnancy or getting help if you need it, and these women aren't just mooching off the government so they can get their free cheese and peanutbutter, they're also mooching off their parents for free childcare and rent because that's how their society works, they're not having kids for the benefits they just don't see a reason to not have kids because they can't afford them, if they want kids then they deserve to have them, that there never will be a "perfect time" to have a child.

Part of the problem with the cycle is that it's so difficult for an uneducated/untrained mother to get out of poverty. How do you go to school and feed your child? School during the day and working at night? Who watches the kid when you do that? How much does that cost and how do you afford anything when you do that?

We still haven't taught our young people that pregnancy at a young age is a bad thing. Bristol Palin gets pregnant and it's celebrated that she made the good choice to have the baby. And then the message is "well, you'd never have sex if you knew how hard babies are", well that's absurd also because if she'd married the hick boyfriend after graduation and gotten pregnant right away it still would be a disaster because if and when they broke up she wouldn't have the ability to support herself or the kid.