Originally Posted by braddys

I think people just get fed up of paying tax to go on benefit scrounging teen mums. But they have to realise not everybody is like that. Im 18 and have a son but im not on benefits.

Originally Posted by Croc-O-Dile

Thanks ladies!
And it's funny, cause now this woman is on there bad mouthing teen moms and one of her comments was about benefits. (along with just about every other stereotype)
"who pays for your child's health care? You or us tax payers?" I very sophisticatedly told her to go fuck herself.

Me: "Actually, Sandra, I'm 17 years old with a better career than most adults I know, I don't rely on anybody else to take care of my child, and I started college at 16, before I got pregnant, to study Physics. I have an IQ well beyond my years, so you need not assume that every teen mom is stupid and doesn't know what she's "giving up." I breast fed and cloth diaper'd my daughter for cost and health reasons. I did my research. And while my daughter does have NJfamilycare, I AM a tax payer, so my family is just as entitled to it as everybody else. You ask where our kids are while we're at work, well where are your kids? Does our age mean that we aren't capable of having a trusted babysitter? Whether it be a parent or family friend, as long as they're being watched and taken care of then it's nobody's business who they're with. I have my own car, that I pay for, and I don't get any child support. No, my daughter doesn't have a "mommy and daddy" cause guess what? Her father is an abusive pedophile who threatened o kill us. So while you're sitting on your high horse, why not stop and think about what some of these girls go through. I survived domestic violence BECAUSE of my daughter. If it weren't for her I wouldn't have had the strength to leave. Any good mother puts her child first, and that's what I did. Leaving him was 100 times harder and scarier than any sleepless night. Say what you want about teen mom's, but they aren't all the same. I, along with many others, wear my stretch marks with pride because I recognize the beauty of what my body did. The only real difference we have, us good teen mothers and the good adult mothers, is we have to put up with people like you degrading us and making us all look like fools while in reality we work our asses off and do a damn good job of raising our kids."

Originally Posted by braddys

I think people just get fed up of paying tax to go on benefit scrounging teen mums. But they have to realise not everybody is like that. Im 18 and have a son but im not on benefits.

Originally Posted by 4magpies

I'm one of them.

But I do realise EVERY teen isn't like that.

There are people in their 30's who are sat on benefits having lots of children.

I myself don't think people should purposely (we all know accidents happen and nothing can be done about those!) have children when they can't even support themselves.