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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Family planning would help many poor people. Free birth control would be helpful, but people
Have to use it. They won't.[/quote]

Many of my former students got pregnant (many have admitted on purpose) in HS.  They come from poor families and often have very large families.  My co-worker holds support groups for them and this is where she learns about them.  These are mostly Hispanic students BTW.  They admit to having babies because 1) this is what girls in their culture do  2) they want something of their own.  None of these girls have aspirations for college so having a baby at 16 isn't a tragedy for them.  They say that they are expected to be mothers and that's it.  When asked why they keep having babies when they cannot afford them, they say that if a Hispanic girl has just one baby, people think there is something wrong with them.  Like they physically cannot have any more kids and they are seen as "broken."  The moms of my students keep having baby after baby because they are expected to have large families.  So like a PP mentioned, free birth control for people who don't want it is pointless.  When the girls have no future anyway, why not get started on what they are supposed to do.  Again, none of this is what I think.  This is what the young girls talk about during their group sessions.[/quote]

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