mrsstreet0417
Mom to Isabella and Emma
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Am so 
right now!!! This note was posted by a girl on my facebook. I can't believe anyone can be so narrow-minded...
"Every time I browse an old friend's page, I am surprised to find that 80% of them are either pregnant, have had a child or two, or are married.
What I want to understand is the marital obsession of this age. Why does everyone feel like they have to get married and have children now? Is it that we're afraid that we're running out of time? Or is simply that we are just getting stupider? There was once a time when marrying young was okay; a necessity, even. But in this day, it's just not logical. We all have to spend our younger years getting an education and working on a career. This is because we have to financially ensure ourselves so that when the time comes, we can have a family, and take good care of them at that.
But these days, it seems like our youth is jumping the gun; jumping the shotgun wedding, more accurately. I understand that there are threats of the impending Armageddon for those of us who choose to believe that. I understand that even if the biblical Armageddon is centuries away, this world... this society is still crumbling to pieces. But is that any reason to rush? Remember: "Quality over quantity." Why rush to have a family if you're going to struggle to support them?
And what ever happened to being young? We're at the point in the world where we're allowed to be young and restless, and responsible at the same time. But we're taking it a step too far. Young and restless has turned into young and reckless. Our idea of a good time is planning a courthouse wedding to someone we've been casually dating for MAYBE a year. Or having sex without a condom, getting pregnant, and keeping the child. Then, we either leave the other or get married.
I just don't understand why so many young people are rushing their lives. Since when did getting married and having a child become such a damn fad? What are you going to do when children "go out of style?" Even if the world is going to end, you still have plenty of time to do it the logical way. If you want to get married, fine. If you want to have children, fine. But here's what pisses me off: you choose to do it when you're still young and reckless. No one I know who is married and/or with child at this age has anything even resembling a career. Let alone, a job. What will probably end up happening is mommy and daddy will care for the babe if they are lucky. But then someday, when mommy and daddy get fed up with babe, young mommy and daddy get put out on the street with babe. Then, it begins a vicious cycle. Believe me, I know. And why let that happen? Instead of helping our society crumble by being irresponsible, why don't you help us survive a little longer and do what MAKES SENSE? Make life easy on yourself....
And stop killing yourself slowly by chaining yourself to the world that so many of our elders are trying to escape. You're young only once, and it's for a damn reason.
Stop rushing it."
Does anyone else think it's stupid for me to be married at 20 and want a little one? I am just so irritated about this, and people commented and told her that the only explanation they could come up with is that people like that are "Stupid"....
right now!!! This note was posted by a girl on my facebook. I can't believe anyone can be so narrow-minded..."Every time I browse an old friend's page, I am surprised to find that 80% of them are either pregnant, have had a child or two, or are married.
What I want to understand is the marital obsession of this age. Why does everyone feel like they have to get married and have children now? Is it that we're afraid that we're running out of time? Or is simply that we are just getting stupider? There was once a time when marrying young was okay; a necessity, even. But in this day, it's just not logical. We all have to spend our younger years getting an education and working on a career. This is because we have to financially ensure ourselves so that when the time comes, we can have a family, and take good care of them at that.
But these days, it seems like our youth is jumping the gun; jumping the shotgun wedding, more accurately. I understand that there are threats of the impending Armageddon for those of us who choose to believe that. I understand that even if the biblical Armageddon is centuries away, this world... this society is still crumbling to pieces. But is that any reason to rush? Remember: "Quality over quantity." Why rush to have a family if you're going to struggle to support them?
And what ever happened to being young? We're at the point in the world where we're allowed to be young and restless, and responsible at the same time. But we're taking it a step too far. Young and restless has turned into young and reckless. Our idea of a good time is planning a courthouse wedding to someone we've been casually dating for MAYBE a year. Or having sex without a condom, getting pregnant, and keeping the child. Then, we either leave the other or get married.
I just don't understand why so many young people are rushing their lives. Since when did getting married and having a child become such a damn fad? What are you going to do when children "go out of style?" Even if the world is going to end, you still have plenty of time to do it the logical way. If you want to get married, fine. If you want to have children, fine. But here's what pisses me off: you choose to do it when you're still young and reckless. No one I know who is married and/or with child at this age has anything even resembling a career. Let alone, a job. What will probably end up happening is mommy and daddy will care for the babe if they are lucky. But then someday, when mommy and daddy get fed up with babe, young mommy and daddy get put out on the street with babe. Then, it begins a vicious cycle. Believe me, I know. And why let that happen? Instead of helping our society crumble by being irresponsible, why don't you help us survive a little longer and do what MAKES SENSE? Make life easy on yourself....
And stop killing yourself slowly by chaining yourself to the world that so many of our elders are trying to escape. You're young only once, and it's for a damn reason.
Stop rushing it."
Does anyone else think it's stupid for me to be married at 20 and want a little one? I am just so irritated about this, and people commented and told her that the only explanation they could come up with is that people like that are "Stupid"....
What a jerk.
