600 homeless kids living in DC shelter...
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Anonymous
You can be an idiot and be black too. |
Anonymous
| This thread makes me sad. So much judgement and so little empathy. |
Anonymous
well that 19 yr old was probably once that 5yr old who was not properly educated, parented, well-cared for. by the time she was 14 she very well may have been sexually molested...which is why she started having babies so early... no one ever built her up...or gave her the idea that there was more to life than the ignorance and desolation around her. Do I condone continued baby-making -- no Do I empathize and understand the dysfunction from which it was born -- you bet. 10 years from now...these little kids we so-called feel sorry for...very well be the parents we so easily despise and dismiss. |
Anonymous
I'll take you up on the free condo--- where do I sign up for that 
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zumbamama
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| I'd like to organize a series of fundraisers. Can anyone recommend a reputable charity organization that would directly benefit these kids? |
Anonymous
I'm a foster mom too. I'm not going to go as far as the first poster-- but last poster I am guessing you are not a foster mom. Sadly enough I can not say that I have seen much of 'accepting their responsibilities and raising their children as best they can.' Teen pregnancy is a tragic situation. I'm as pro-life as they come. This article made me deeply uncomfortable. It talked about this huge families. One of the profiled families had 13 children- if I recollect the article correctly only 5 of the children were living with her. Where are the other 8?? |
Anonymous
"As best they can" speaks to all spectrums of parenthood (from good to bad). Some teens just aren't properly equipped with the know-how to be a good mother. As a teen Mom, I'm 100% sure I screwed up at different times during my daughter's upbringing. Thankfully, I had/have a supportive family and was able to grow into being a good mother. Not all young Moms have these role models, so they mimic the poor behavior they see around them. So, that's what I meant by my post. Not that they're all mother of the year contenders. |
Anonymous
What is so complicated about using birth control??? Condoms are not one's only option. PLease. once, understood. twice, kind of get it. three times, you are an idiot. |
Anonymous
What a hate filled response. You sound awful. Ireland had Magdalene Laundries for the women, now that hardly is an example to go by. Adoption is voluntary, only native americans and Australian aboriginals have had it forced on them. These kids might be in a shelter, but that is not a permanent home and they are not motherlesss. GED is useful, but if youu are young then you still have time. Everybody makes bad choices, and in some way a child is a choice, but I would not call a child a bad choice. All teen mothers are not bad mothers, my grandmother was a refugee with 2 children, pregnant, only owned her clothes and spent evenings in a bomb shelter, not knowing if her husband was going to survive the war. |
Anonymous
Making insulting coments is not a persuasive argument. Make sensible arguments of your case and we might get somewhere with a discussion. Everyone of every race can be an idiot, of course. How is the post that you are responding to idiotic? Is it because it is not blindly supporting every single thing Obama and his wife do without criticism? Using racism as a response to everything you don't agree with weakens the case for reacism when it really does apply, as with these homeless people, unemployment, promotions, housing, education. Accusing people of racism when it doesn't apply makes me think of the boy who cried "wolf". There are many, many situations in which racism is a real problem for black people. Don't be the one who keeps calling wolf when none is around. There are many other posts about politicians and their wives and their lives whether you love them or not. Please let's keep the focus of this thread on the homeless kids who need help if that is possible. |
Anonymous
Can you recall anyone asking how many homeless children Nancy Reagan could have fed with one of her dresses? Of course not. Blacks are expected to have some special obligation to the poor because, it is imagined, that these are their people. |
Anonymous
| Actually, Nancy didn't have to help homeless kids. You see, we didn't experience mass street homelessness until AFTER her husband shut down mental institutions and then we hit the recession. Homelessness really took off thanks to Ronnie. |
Anonymous
Are you seriously that dense? Really? |
Anonymous
Zumbamama brings us back to the topic. Zumba, I can't answer about an organization. However, having worked with homeless children (in another country) I can tell you that these kids need continuity in their daytime lives - getting to the doctor, buying clothes, school enrollment, finding an after school program to keep them busy, happy, fed a snack and to help them do their homework, and transportation to get to things. Keep in mind that families cycle through the shelter, so if you want to benefit the kids directly, you might have a hard time keeping up with them. Maybe you can find an after school program that serves the neighborhood where DC General is located. (I can't tell if the kids go to the local school while housed in the shelter, or if they continue to go to the schools they were attending previously.) Maybe you can find a program that supports the parents who are in a job search. Let us know what you end up doing. |
Anonymous
shame on you That was nasty and you know it. |