[quote=FlyerInHi]I can see now that you’re a real feminist as opposed to the fake wishy washy ones today. You have a can do attitude from co-parenting to co-borrowing.
You’re lucky that your kids opened their eyes and ears otherwise they could have ended up like some of the neighbors. That’s a reason people don’t want to live on CV South. I doubt anyone gets knocked up at 19 in CV North.[/quote]
Uhh, you might want to ask our friend flyer about this, FIH. Even people raised within the covenant (female AND male) who have no means to support their offspring get “knocked up.” It’s even cushier to live in a parent’s back bdrm there in their expansive home on expansive grounds, with your baby’s crib by your bedside :=)
In my kid’s friend’s sibling’s cases, nearly all of their homes (owned by parents) were worth $800K to $1.2M during the years my kids were in HS with them.
Theoretically, any new mom (teenaged or not) can qualify for a monthly TANF payment for her baby if she does not receive any child support from the father. Her address or her parent(s) ability to support both of them have nothing to do with her eligibility because once she is a parent herself, she has formed her “own” immediate family under the law. Many parents of means with kids who are pregnant or new moms require them to file for the benefit so they will be forced by the county to work for the benefit when their baby reaches four months old. They then demand the benefit be paid into the household to pay for diapers, formula and other stuff for the baby while the mom works. However, it is not enough in any way, shape or form to compensate the grandparent or other relative who is typically caring for the baby while the mom works.
FYI, teenage and young adult parents who can’t support their kid(s) weren’t necessarily raised “poor” and usually weren’t. Most of them (girls) were coddled and too sheltered (IMO) by upper middle-class and even wealthy parents. Hence, their unbridled stupidity in this day and age regarding consequences of sex and use of birth control.
