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[Westley Annis]

syl,

    I agree with a few things you have stated, however, it was only after my
oldest daughter came to me and started talking to me about sex (GULP!) that
I realized how much MISINFORMATION she had from friends, boys, etc.
Considering that I have an open relationship with my kids, she felt
comfortable enough to come to me. After stamping down the initial panic,
fear, etc. (I told her to give me an hour to wrap my head around things.) We
sat down and talked. I then made her go to Walmart and buy a box of condoms,
I then made her make an appointment with an OB/GYN and ask questions, had
the nurse practitioner discuss things, etc. Is this forward thinking? No,
but my daughter was then fully informed before making any decision. Yes,
there is a ton of information out there, but how much misinformation is out
on the net? You said that there are kids everyday getting pregnant yet have
good relationships with their parents. But there you are wrong....if kids do
NOT feel comfortable enough to talk about anything with their parents, then
there is a deficit of some type there.
  As for the lifestyle and want for more wic, foodstamps, etc....Do you
really think that the benefits are soooooo nice that people WANT to live
like this? $432 in foodstamps for a family of 3 isn't crap. Section 8 homes
and project life isn't that great either, the neighborhoods suck, the
neighbors suck, etc. It may be all they know (there were a number of
families who had 2 and 3 generation who lived in the housing projects in New
Orleans prior to the storm.) By the way, I have 4 children- 17, 15,
3,1....three girls. None of them are locked up, they continue to have free
will, and my daughter's not pregnant.

Wendy

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Wendy,

 In response to some of your statements,

---Why because their parents are working service and low income jobs, that
usually
have non-business hours so these teens are left on their own. (Parents with
good jobs and decent hours have kids getting pregnant, also.)

---HIV is growing faster in the black female population than any other. Why?
Lack of information and
knowledge, that's also why we have higher teen pregnancy rates than Europe,
higher sexually transmitted diseases than Europe, etc. America's uptight
puritanical thinking is causing most of these problems. ( There is a lot of
information out there on HIV and unwanted pregnancies. I do not believe that
the majority of these pregnancies and HIV cases (black or white) are from
lack of knowledge.  Movies, songs and lifestyles of popular figures
influence teens more than their parents.  It's sad, but true.  They
glamorize sex, but usually don't emphasize the consequences..unwanted
pregnancies, HIV and sometimes having to be on welfare to take care of the
child.)

---This is a vicious circle that feeds itself. (so, why don't they learn
after that first mistake, insead of having 2, 3 or more ? Because they know
that they can get welfare, food stamps, WIC, etc and not have to work & put
anything into the system.  And I am not saying ALL cases turn out like
this.)

---So, if her own daughter couldn't trust her, how are we the American
people suppose to? If she couldn't handle her teenage daughter, how can we
ask her to handle rogue nations, etc. (What does her daughter trusting her
have to do witth her getting pregnant ?  Does anyone you know who got
pregnant at a young age, did t because they didn't trust their parents ?
Obviously, you must not have any children or you would not have made the
statement "she couldn't handle her teenage daughter".  Unless you locked her
up (and I am sure there were times when that didn't work), how would you
stop her from doing what she wanted to do ?  She has a free will to choose.)

Syl