http://bostonist.com/2008/06/19/breakfast_club_replaced_by_pregnanc.php All comments for Breakfast Club Replaced by Pregnancy Club in Gloucester en-us 2009 rickbang Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:29:29 -0500 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss rick@bostonist.com rick@bostonist.com 60 http://bostonist.com/2008/06/19/breakfast_club_replaced_by_pregnanc.php#comment-1390289 http://bostonist.com/2008/06/19/breakfast_club_replaced_by_pregnanc.php#comment-1390289 Comments Sat, 21 Jun 2008 11:20:09 -0500 <p>Sadly, Nora, you are right on. This is like being in the right front seat of a car about to crash. You warn the driver in increasingly louder tones, only to be ignored. What no one talks about is that these babies present the family with an unpleasant choice: 1. throw the kid out of the house, as might have been done in earlier generations, with predictable results of poverty and misery or 2. bring the baby home and change the template of a household that wasn't planning on a new infant, with all the complications and distractions that it brings to aging members. The fact that girls feel so entitled that this somehow strikes them as a good idea is chilling. At the end of the day, this is about someone who is trying to make their problem my problem. If my own family is any indication, these girls trying to create new families will not only fail in most cases, they will destroy the cohesion of EXISTING families in their self-centered quest. How stupid does one have to be to put a positive spin on all this?</p> http://bostonist.com/2008/06/19/breakfast_club_replaced_by_pregnanc.php#comment-1389198 http://bostonist.com/2008/06/19/breakfast_club_replaced_by_pregnanc.php#comment-1389198 Comments Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:37:35 -0500 <p>You know, I try not to be That Internet Fuckwad, but these girls and the Gloucester school's complete lack of proper response/support have really pushed lil' Nora over the edge. Best of luck with your burdens, girls; and best of luck getting into the workforce later; and good luck fostering hope in your own child when the baby you made faces the same shitty cycle you did! And when the child hits the teen years--when the mothers' ages are, oh, just a little over twice the kids' ages!--all that unconditional love that we all know teens feel for their parents will certainly pay off. I wish they all had better support and did not turn to such a shortsighted solution that is most likely to only make things worse. The school should look farther ahead than that as well. So best of luck to Gloucester, which will reap later what it's sown now.</p>