Too many young mums knocking about

North Welsh accent? Oh dear god. Also how do you know they were swearing in welsh?


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In 2009 (the latest data I could find), teenage pregnancy rates in England and Wales were "estimated to be the lowest since the early 1980s" (Guardian Article; http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2011/feb/22/teenage-pregnancy-rates-england-wales-map). I think you might be exaggerating the number of teenage pregnancies in your area, possibly due to your own lack of education. You realise that just because you see a woman and a young child in your shop, it does not mean that they are mother and daughter, and if they are, you have no real way of determining whether the mother is working, whether they are on benefits or whether there's an active and involved father. Also, I'd argue that if you're a woman and over 20, it's your life and if you want children, then fine. Start a family.
You say that "They deserve nothing", referring to the benefits provided by the government to those with children; have you considered that those benefits are spent on the care of the children in question? What would you prefer, very, very poor families with starving children? Clearly, you've already written off the parents; why not write off the children as failures too, eh?
We don't live in a perfect society. There are a lot of problems. But it's people like yourself who are equally as uneducated and ignorant as those you attack in your OP- you're not as above them as you think.

I think the problem is English women, or rather British women. They lack education which is actually a problem they create themselves.

lol I am well above them but then again most people are. You're telling me I'm equal to some ugly, fat, common chav who sponges off the state to fund her 'let's see how many babies I can slip out my vag' council estate lifestyle? Jog on.

It is not the fault of both. It is the fault of the woman for letting it go through. Can she not find a man to have sex with who'll use protection?

Honestly it's actually ridiculous. There are far too many young mums, be it teens or early twenties who are uneducated, having a bad attitude and many ugly as people all round. They literally have kids just to create their lifestyle. I don't get why women love to blame the man who 'did a runner' - clearly by the amount of young single mums out there it is not a mistake (the baby). As a woman you carry responsibility of pregnancy. It is your job to ensure that the man is protected (seeing as you are too arrogant to use protection yourself). I really don't get it. Blame the man etc, if you don't want to get pregnant don't have sex with some toerag! It generally just annoys me. I work in retail and the mum with baby in tow combo is the most common to visit my store. All I see all day is young mum with child, young mum with child - and I can instantly tell most of these young girls are single mums etc.

Seeing all these uneducated, poorly mannered, stuck up, ugly women rolling down the street or park with their babies in tow living with this victim mentality. Ugly. They deserve nothing.

Discuss.

Thank you to the last 2 posters who give my post some credibility. Some people can see the truth.

I have no idea how we're going to stop it. It's pretty much a problem partly caused by:

- Lack of access/education of contraceptives,
- Lack of ambition/little desire for education,
- Unemployment, with parenting being an alternative (benefits and the impression they've achieved something)
- Their own parents, they may have young mums/their peers might.

So perhaps we could combat it through education, improving employment, advertise the point free contraceptives are available etc... I think we may be too deep though... it will be years before anything started to change.

lol I am well above them but then again most people are. You're telling me I'm equal to some ugly, fat, common chav who sponges off the state to fund her 'let's see how many babies I can slip out my vag' council estate lifestyle? Jog on.

Meh. My mum was young when she first fell pregnant (miscarriage) and when she had my brother, sister and I. (had brother at 23, me at 25 and sister at 27)

Oh, and she was married when my brother, sister and I were born.

Not all women do it for benefits, etc.