[quote=FlyerInHi]Getting knocked up at 19 is not a function of means as much as education and environment.
Assume 2 houses. $1.2 house in CV South and another $1.2 house in CV North. The houses are the same value, but the people living in them have different values. The neighbors and neighborhood are different.
Not that it doesn’t happen, but I’m pretty certain the likelyhood of getting knocked-up up north is lower (yes, I misspoke when I said “I doubt anyone..”). Let see if anyone will tell us us about teenage pregnancies in their neighborhoods. Come on people, let’s hear the stories.[/quote]
Again, accidental young, single-person parenthood has nothing to do with being raised in a well-off household or poor household and everything to do with the young person’s level of maturity and, as flyer stated, degree of self-entitlement. Suffice to say, I’ve seen kids of Navy captains … even the daughter of a Commodore, lol and county official’s (dept head/county mgmt-level) kids become “accidental parents.” ’nuff said … I’ll just leave it at that.
I recently visited cousins’ homes (2) on my recent trip to “flyover country” where they BOTH had daughters (early-mid 20’s) who were living with them in different stages of pregnancy. Both were single (never-married) and for both, this was going to be their first child. Both my cousins in this case were male and semi-retired in their early 60’s. Both were married … one was still married to the girl’s mother. Both had owned their beautiful large homes in the best parts of town (the home their daughters grew up in) for decades. It happens everywhere to people of all walks of life.
