in a poverty stricken district where many parents are in welfare, are drug addicts, are in prison, where an old, tired, and feeble grandma is raising the children, etc.
These children did NOT choose their parents nor their situations. They deserve a chance to get a decent education and a chance to rise above from where they came
I guess the question is: HOW does this cycle get broken? It seems that poverty-violence-'bad parenting' begets the same. It seems like a deep societal problem (at least in SOME places). Would you agree that it boils down to irresponsible people (including juveniles) having children? I understand the sentiment of children not choosing their parents--I speak from personal experience (also,having known my share of 16-year old moms). As for 'children' having children--isn't 'Sex Ed' supposed to teach them how to prevent pregnancies? What happened? However, we can't really prevent irresponsible people from having kids, now, can we? Also, don't we tell them (through welfare) its O.K. to have kids they're not prepared to care for/support? Again, we don't want innocent children to suffer, but how do we srike the right balance? I've also known PLENTY of women (some family members too, I hate to say) on welfare (most perpetrating some form of fraud against the system), and believe me--they aren't 'victims'! They KNOW how babies are made, and KNOW they'll get public assistance. I'm not big on 'morals', but I AM big on personal responsibility. With freedom comes responsibility. Want to have sex w/a different woman/man every night? FINE. Use protection. If there is no protection--don't do it! Don't act like there aren't consequences to irresponsible behavior.