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If you do even a cursory check on other sources for this story, you'll come up with a slightly different picture of what happened. Apparently this site is from the Fox News school of journalism.
ABC News. Baby left with baby sitter.
NY Daily News. Went out for a drink
NY Times
NY 1
Those sources there don't editorialize.
Huh? Everything in the first article (at least the part that is quoted) is factual. 'Authorities said so and so happened...'
That's pretty fucking harsh, shidoshi. SO you're saying that condoms and birth control just shouldn't be invented, because if you're not in a situation to be a super parent you shouldn't be having sex? My cousin has a kid at 18. She had been on birth control for two years and was careful about interaction from medication. Since she doesn't believe in abortion, yeah, she kept the child. Is she trash? Are the girls who do give their babies up trash for not 'manning up' and being a parent?Quote:
Originally Posted by shidoshi
God, I don't think it's responsible when young mothers try to make it work and keep their children when they don't have a good support system, but it fucking happens and it's horrible. If my cousin didn't have the support of her family, she'd be like the vast majority who get kicked out and have almost nothing to hang onto but a child that yeah, guess what, they might actually love and care about. It's not like taking a pet to a shelter when you can't afford to take care of it, it's a -child-. Kids with kids get scared, and don't do the right things even when they have better intentions. Not every teen mother who doesn't have supportive parents should have their kids taken away from them and be treated like the scum of the earth.
Honestly, I'm willing to bet that a really high number of you guys here had a girlfriend who went through a pregnancy scare in high school or college or something. How the fuck would you feel about that?
I'm not defending this girl; I absolutely don't think teenagers should be drinking like that, let alone if they had a child. But seeing as how she's in a shelter because she had nowhere else to go and was clearly pretty freaked out, I don't see how you guys just don't find that remotely worthy of being sad about for her in even the slightest sense.
She should go to jail, but honest to god, what will it do for her? Give her more time to think about accidently killing her own kid, that she cared about? It'll be better for the damn girl since she clearly doesn't have anything else going for her in life, but it's not like she's going to walk out of jail in 5-10 years and be fine. Whatever normal was left in her life is completely gone now, she's going to be too fucked up by this.
Edit: And after reading the other ones, yeah, it does change things. I was basing it off of the first article where I don't jump to conclusions about every teenage mother being a worthless bag of shit like everyone said initially. I hope the girl stays in jail for a long, long time, but I still feel bad for her. Guess that makes me a horrible person or something.
But not written in a fantastical way.Quote:
originally posted by Joust:
Huh? Everything in the first article (at least the part that is quoted) is factual. 'Authorities said so and so happened...'
IE: "Downing gin and smoking cigarettes."
Also tells you how much she actually drank: 20oz of gin & tonic.
what
so anyway, punishment. i don't know what. Prison okay, but people aren't trash. don't look down your nose at them like they are. i hate this thread.
haven't you figure it out? The US hates it's poor and stupid.Quote:
Originally Posted by Finch
Pretty much, though perhaps it's such a prevalent act I've been able to correlate the two a lot recently. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Cowdisease
They left out the fact that she was smoking cigerettes! Biased news!Quote:
Originally Posted by icarusfall
No, really, it's not. I contacted my editor who said it was fine. My book is being published by one of the big houses and the editor works there. Similar sentences:Quote:
Originally Posted by flux=rad
The man went to the bar and never returned home after that night.
Everybody knew about the car and it would have to be towed from its spot.
Etc. It would be one thing if Opaque had written: "She should go to jail and no child should be left in her custody for the rest of her life." That is an ambiguous (and incorrect) sentence.
Look, I'm sticking up for Opaque here. I can't stand him. Nash was right, though. The best way to have said it: "She should go to jail. No child should be in her custody for the rest of her life."