It really irks me to see kids having kids. I mean, don't they know what it takes to have a baby??? No, you can't just pop one out and everything is honky dory. The medical bills, the diet you should take to keep your baby and body healthy, the hospital visits, clothes, food, toys for when you have the baby....none of this is easy. And from my experience, children born from parents 18 and under don't grow up in the most positive environments. Most of them grow up in low poverty families, or in neighborhoods not safe for them, or wind up living with other family members that aren't their parents.

However, what makes things worse it that there really isn't anything we can do to prevent any of this. I mean, we can only talk to these kids about absentence (sp?) or protected sex, but who is to say that these kids will actually listen and take these precautions.