04-06-2008, 09:05 PM
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| Partisan  Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Los Angeles Gender:  Posts: 9,987 Country:  Points: 31,380, Level: 100 | Level up: 0%, 0 Points needed |  |  Quote:
Originally Posted by hot dragon  waitingtables;
well put. people often assume their experiences are the best or the only ones that matter.
But let me guess - you don't feel that you belong in that category!!!
the issue of pregnancy is above all else an issue affecting the person who is pregnant. nobody else in the world is going to be affected nearly as much, and nobody else has the right to impose judgement or decision upon her. | Utter nonsense.
In the first place a teenager who has a child will have to rely on her parents for financial support and most other forms of support she will need. To pretend that her parents are somehow out of the picture and instantly uninvolved is ludicrous.
Secondly, parents DO have the right to impose judgment on their children, good or bad, and they do so every day of the child's life, often continuing long after the child becomes a legal adult.
Parents make decisions - about health, nutrition, moral values, behaviour, education and hundreds of other things - on behalf of their children. All of these decisions impose judgments on the child in one way or another.
It's clear your parenting experience is confined to the theoretical.
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