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[quote=Anonymous]Although having multiple children in your teens is a recipe for disaster I'm inclined to agree with the adoptive parent of the FASD child above. Having multiple children before 21 is both a cause and a symptom.

I'm not against encouraging long term birth control but this is bigger than that.

The adoptive parent mentioned poor impulse control, inability to understand cause and effect and inability to understand money. All can be present in FASD children in general and was there in Shamika's family in particular. Shamika of course but when you listen carefully to her mother's story you hear this too.

It comes down to someone who innately  doesn't have the ability to navigate the adult world on a minimal level raising multiple children who innately are going to have difficulty navigating the adult world under the best of circumstances but have a poor role model to make it worse.

Spending money to watch and manage these children and families is a good use of resources. Pay now or pay more later. Shelters, prisons, public defenders, rent funds, etc. all cost the tax payers money too and don't seem to change things for the families, children and our society. 
Time for serious targeted help.

The social instabilty mentioned above such as 'men in and out' doesn't surprise me as the expectation of two mentally challenged people staying together is asking a lot. Remember the impulse control and other issues. Enormous pressures working against a long term relationship. Consider what your MC and UMC friends get divorced over and in poverty all those reasons are there plus a million more. 
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