Originally Posted by waitingtables

And I stated that in the post. I was talking about teenage girls. As well as women. It doesn't change any of the things that I said.

When I was 16, my dad was nowhere to be found, and my mother was addicted to heroin. I was on my own. If in my teenage years, I were to become pregnant, I was perfectly capable of making that decision then. And I would have, had it happened. Thank God for my own common sense, I wasn't having sex yet, unlike my neighbor in the projects, who had a one year old at age 15. She lived with her mother, who was also on welfare. I get the feeling that they are probably still living in the same circumstances that they were over 20 years ago. I, however, am not. Nor have I ever been on welfare, living in the projects in my adult life, while I have been under my own rule. You see, my judgement has always been better than my parents, for some reason. Grace, things are not always clear cut and in black and white. Life experience should make one more understanding and willing to accept other people's shortcomings or mistakes, not make one less loving or accepting of different types of choices then you might make.