Out-of-wedlock births reach all-time high

What a topic...

http://www.fox10tv.com/global/story.asp?s=5714952

First of all I don't know how the U.S. can even complain about something I find so trivial.

Maybe instead of bitching about what real women do in their lives and ridiculing them for everything they do every waking moment.. they should look at the bigger problems we have like.. hmmm oh say.. Drugs, Street Gangs, Rapists, Terrorists, Abductions, and MURDERERS!
Or maybe it's the fact that the government does nothing about pornography, that encourages women, men (especially) to have sex with as many men, women, children, animals and objects that she/he can possibly handle with the least bit of protection he/she can use. If bringing a child into this world and not having a rock on your finger takes precedence over shit like that, then all I can say is that Canada is looking better every day for me.

Isn't it good that at least these women are HAVING the babies? Not to mention the article talks about how the un-wed women are in their 20's? The teenagers or "Babies having Babies" problem has dropped compared to last year, and I'd say that's a good thing. A twenty year old IS considered an adult (though there are many out there that don't act like it) and is at least old enough to have a job and can raise the child independently if she needs to. Not to say.. What if someone doesn't believe in the act of marriage but they do believe in love? What is wrong with a 24 year old female and say a 24 year old male that have been together since they were 14, but don't want to get married? The woman can still raise her child as it's "mother" and the male can still raise the child as it's "father". They can still be a "family". Just because there is no damn ring on the fingers and some stupid papers to "prove" their love for one another shouldn't mean shit! What a materialistic world we live in.

Now say the guy wants nothing to do with the child? (As usual) well at least the single mother can get child support from him. Unlike a 14 year old girl having a child and pretty much pawning off all "motherly" duties to her parents and the young father not having to pay a penny, though his parents may suffer for his responsibility. This article acts like all the women out there are whoring themselves around and WANT to have a baby. Where's the guilt on the guys for not sticking around with these women, huh? It's not like she picked up a picture of a baby and *poof* she's pregnant! Or how about the fact that the mother or father of this child may have grown up in a house hold where the "happily" married parents were unfaithful and beat the shit out of each other and the children!? I'm sorry but it doesn't exactly put a good outlook in someone's future plans to ever be married. No matter what anyone does in this country it will never be "right".

These woman could have had abortions instead, but they choose not to. (That's a whole other topic) I give them credit.. It takes a lot of courage to bring a baby into this world with not much of a support system behind you. It's sad to think that if a Woman gets pregnant and she's not married everyone thinks she is dirty or a slut and they look at her in disgust. (Of course the whole time the "father" of the child is getting a pat on the back because he's "the man"). But if she had an abortion they would shame her for life. However, If she is married, and is pregnant, it's celebrated! Is she happy in her marriage? Is he? Who cares!? All that matters is that she's pregnant and they are married, and that's how it "should be".

Think of it this way when you read this article.. Is it a pro or con that the teenagers having babies crisis has gone down? Is it a Pro or Con these women did not have abortions? Is it a pro or con they aren't married when clearly they weren't sure where the relationship stood? Is it a pro or con for a couple to be married JUST because they had a child, when inside they can't stand being around each other and are unhappy and fight all the time?

The most interesting piece of this whole article that I really love I'll post below:

***Other findings in the report: The birth rate among teenagers declined 2 percent in 2005, continuing a trend from the early 1990s. The rate is now about 40 births per 1,000 females ages 15 to 19. That is the lowest level in the 65 years for which a consistent series of rates is available***

Ummm.... Yeah.. LOWEST LEVEL IN 65 YEARS!

So people stop bitching. And I'm talking to all you old folks that are "set" in your ways. I normally don't like to hurt peoples feeling, but you sure as hell NEVER care about anyone else's. You are mainly the ones that have a problem with this and well.. Pretty much everything else that happens in this world. Let's see now 2006-65 years = 1941! Hmm Pearl Harbor..Yes.. Hmm WWII ..yess... Moving a tad later we get to the "60's" Well, helloooooo "BABY BOOMERS"!
When nothing mattered but "Love" and the "Freedom to Love". You Hippies pushed it, and fought for it. You did it and enjoyed it. Guess what? Now you're older.. Now your daughter or son want to do the same things you did ( in a much more toned down way actually) and you have a problem with it? Sorry, but "You can't have your cake and eat it too".

And I'm sure ALL of you and ALL of your parents were ALL married when they had ALL of you. Must of been nice to have lived in such a PERFECT world. Did you know they had to Expand ALL the schools in the U.S. just to fit you?!

"Now How about them Apples?!"

***Pearl Harbor** 
a harbor near Honolulu, on S Oahu, in Hawaii: surprise attack by Japan on the U.S. naval base and other military installations December 7, 1941.

***World War IIn. Abbr. WWII ***
A war fought from 1939 to 1945, in which Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union, the United States, China, and other allies defeated Germany, Italy, and Japan.

**Baby Boomer*
a person born during a baby boom, esp. one born in the U.S. between 1946 and 1965