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reply posted on 7-10-2004 @ 11:01 AM by torque
They didn't always do it to themselves. I've known people who used birth control and it failed and they got pregnant. And there are waiting lists because many people want white babies. I used to see people in my old town all the time, protesting in front of abortion clinics, spitting on teenage girls walking in, screaming in their faces that they're evil and murderers. I once thought that if each one of them and all the others in the country like them adopted one or two babies each, there wouldn't be a problem. Then I looked at how they were behaving and figured it might be better if they didn't raise any children after all.

I don't support multiple abortions as birth control. I don't support partial birth abortion or late term abortion. But I do support abortion as a last resort because the other options aren't being taught or pushed enough. I have friends who put their daughter on birth control as soon as she began menstruating. They just didn't want to take any chances. Taught her about condoms and how to use them. And told her that now she was protected, but it didn't mean she should go have sex. They actually talk to her about sex. About her worth as a person and about not letting a boy talk her into it or make her feel obligated to have sex. They told her in no uncertain terms that they didn't want her to have sex until she was an adult. Not "when you're ready" or "if you think you're ready", but "no". They got her involved in activities in school so she'd have something to do besides hang out and look for something to do. They have dinner together every night and talk about what's happened during the day. There are rules and limits, and they're stuck to even if it makes them the bad guys.

Young people need to be given choices and limits. They need to be instructed and encouraged to ask questions. They need honest answers. They need to have healthy self-esteem and not be afraid to make their own welfare come first. They need to understand what peer pressure is and how to combat it. They need to know that everybody's NOT really doing it. They need to know how to say NO when they don't want something, be it sex or drugs. They will only learn how to firmly say no if they see it being done every day by their parents and if they respect their parents enough to abide by it.


reply posted on 7-10-2004 @ 04:42 PM by marg6043
Originally posted by FredT

marg, I simply cannot believe this....... I agree with you for a change. The number of people open to adopting medicaly challanged babies is ultra small. The issue of crack babies as mentioned before also brings up alot of issues. These kid not only have problems at birth, but as the enter the school system they have social and behavoral issues as well. One kid can really disrupt the entire class.



Yes is a different site to the story when a child is born is already here and all we can do is make sure he is provided with what he needs some don't even have that.


I am going to tell you a story I am a teacher when I came to the south I was working with children in elementary school, I was in my classroom (second graders at the time) when the teacher from the classroom across mine came running and told me to come to her classroom because she needed a witness to one of the first grader’s behavior, when I when to her classroom the child was jumping on the other children desks, he was tearing their papers and (it was a lot of littler ones crying) screaming. Finally one of the male coach came and got the child out of the room.

When I ask what was wrong with the boy the teacher told me that he was "a crack baby" but they cannot do anything because he was a "ward of the state" other comments were made but I am not going to bring them on, now as a parent I found that the other children were exposed to the behavior of this child and I though it was unfair, now I happen to see the boy six years later in Junior high, and to my surprise he was living with his grand mama and he was in the special student’s program and he looked happy, and that made my day.
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