All it takes is a 2 minute walk.

So Professor Marchant said that I could blog about whatever I wanted, as long as it was a public issue; quite frankly I am tired of blogging about complaints at SLCC because it just makes me feel like I'm being ungrateful to be in school. So I am going to blog about sincerely whats on my mind, and thats unplanned pregnancy.

In 2008, about 6 out of 10 girls I was acquainted with that year, got pregnant. None of which were expected and none of which were financially secure.
When I first hear news about my girlfriends getting pregnant I always ask the same thing "So, what are you going to do now?" And I always hear the SAME answer: "What do you MEAN? I'm going to have it, and keep it."
Now maybe it's just me, because it's in my nature to over-analyze every little thing, but am I the ONLY girl in her teens who thinks that it's not okay to bring an innocent child in the world that is perhaps not going to be able to be taken care of physically, emotionally, and financially? One out of ten of my friends now has to drop out of college this year to have her child, because everyone is telling her that she now needs to "handle her problems and take care of her mistakes." Now every time I look at this girl all I can think about is all the education she will be behind on, and maybe even miss out on if she cannot go back. Another one girl I knew had a son who just passed his 1st birthday, and she couldn't even afford to buy him a birthday cake because diapers and food alone had broke her wallet. I think that in order to raise a child properly you need to make sure you yourself as a parent are ready. If you don't even have the money to pay your own bills, clean your own body, and put food in your own stomach, what makes you think that you are ready to do it for the life of your offspring?
I'm not saying that my friends are bad parents because that is not true; I think the only thing that is cooler then my friends are a mini-me version of my friends, BUT if there is one thing I do not enjoy, it is seeing my friends suffer. They are amazing people who will teach their children amazing things, but will now have to miss out on their 20's because they couldn't think twice about what they were doing. ALL it takes, is a 2 minute walk down to the Health and Wellness Office, and just simply ask "May I have some condoms?"