“I know-lets hook up, you get pregnant, I’ll show up when it’s convenient for me, maybe once a week, maybe twice, maybe not at all, you can be my baby momma, I’ll be the baby daddy, we’ll get RITE care for the baby, and you until the baby is eighteen, or if you have more illegitimate kids, until they are eighteen, I’ll stop by for a booty call now and then, unless I’m with my other baby mommas, but I’ll text you if that’s the case, we’ll drop the kid off at your mom’s house on the weekends and hit the club, or I’ll hang with my boys and you can hit the club and hook up, it’s okay as long as I don’t know.”
Fatherhood. It’s a piece of cake. What are all these old guys bitching about.
I wish I was making this stuff up.
Providence is full of single mothers. EMS is used to take children from single parent homes to emergency rooms for free medical care. I have no idea what happened, but we need to turn it around before it’s too late.
This is so true. Someday I wonder what I am doing working hard every day why can’t I get free care. The best is when they tell you they are paying your salary then I just tell them I am paying for your healthcare.
It’s too late
I make no attempts to hide my flinching when I hear the words “baby momma” and “baby daddy.” To me, they just sound incredibly disrespectful…
What happened? The government, in our name, created the perfect conditions for young women to become unwed mothers. As the economists say, “When you pay for something, you tend to get a lot of it”.
Free prenatal care, tutoring if the girl is in school, free food, more free food if you tell the welfare people that you plan to nurse, money for clothes, free pediatric care, and more I can’t think of off the top of my head. RI is the most generous state in this regard. Oh, and there are “advocates” who counsel the girls on how to get the most out of their benefits.
This has been going on long enough that it’s not uncommon to see grandmothers in their mid to late 30s. Think about that.
When Mrs. TOTWTYTR taught in one of your cities she would tell me of how well the pregnant girls were treated compared to the pregnant teachers.
Her particular HS, not Providence, had 60 girls that they knew of who were pregnant in one year. That’s out of a total enrollment of 1,000 or so kids.
Oh, we’ve removed the stigma of unwed pregnancy and in fact made it cool.
I’d also like to see a study looking at the coincidence of better sex education in the schools and unwed teen pregnancies.
David, since they pay no taxes and in fact get money back from the government even though they have no income, they are paying none of your salary.
The system is too badly broken to fix. To parody Jesse Jackson, I’d have to say, “End it, you can’t mend it”.