Correct me if I'm wrong, but what happened to the third choice when a girl gets pregnant? I'm talking
about adoption. I had a baby when I was 17, and I gave her up for adoption. I knew I could never
provide the kind of life I had, and I knew someone out there could do better. There are so many kids
out there that are abused and grow up with low self-esteem because they were born to parents who
were too young and immature to give their children the attention they need. I met my daughter 24 years
after I gave her up for adoption. She had a good life with two wonderful parents who loved and cared
for her and she, in turn, has loved and cared for her daughter. How many kids are in foster care? And
how many of them were born to young, immature children? When I had my oldest son, I was 24 years
old. I was not ready to be a mother. I was mentally abusive to him, and verbally abusive to him. And I
have apologized to him, over and over. Don't get me wrong, I loved him, and I wasn't abusive every day.
But my ex-husband was abusive in every sense of the word, and when things were going bad between
him and I, I took it out on my son. My son and I have talked about it, and he's forgiven me, although he
doesn't think I was a bad mother. But seeing the kind of mother I am now, having matured, I realize
that I could have done much better had I waited to have kids until I was ready. Parenting is the hardest
job on the face of the earth. And it's a full-time job. And, you can't quit. Although some people do. That's
sad, all by itself. I honestly don't believe teenagers should be having children. And why is it that parents
can be punished for bad things their kids do, but when it comes to a teenager wanting to keep a child,
the parents have no say. Are kids kids? Or are kids adults? I don't know about you, but I'm confused!
