DerKodeMeister wrote:
I'm so tired of going on Facebook and seeing pictures of stupid 16 years old boys and girls with their "new" babies (as if a baby was some kind of brand new product you buy at a store). I have counted at least 7 children (14 "parents") so far of people I know and these people are about 16 or 17 years old. What pisses me off even more, are the comments left on the baby pictures. The people (and even the "parents") act like they just got a new puppy or kitten! Awww look at him!! ! He's soooooooooooooo cuteeeeee!! !! !! !! !
Yeah, well when this "new-found bundle of joy" begins to be a loving and respecting (heh) teenager and then adult, I'm sure they'll be so appreciative and understanding. "Oh mom I just love eating potato chips for breakfast, lunch, and dinner! I also just love our little trailer too! I mean I do kind of wish I could go to school to learn to read like the other kids, but who cares? I understand that you tried and tried and tried to get a job to help me go to school, but it was just too hard taking care of me! It's a shame daddy ran off."
The following quote was pretty much their attitude towards the whole thing:
"Well I found out, to my delight, that I was pregnant. I'd never thought about having children. I'd never even held a baby. I'd never noticed even an iota of maternal instinct. Yet the day I discovered I was pregnant made me feel more real and useful than any other day in my life. I knew immediately that this was what I was on the Earth to do: to be a mother."
Well how f***ing selfless of you! So you decide that you don't want the baby to have any kind of chance at a better life than the one you have (the standard goal that a lot of respectable parents strive for), you just want this baby because of a complete whim that had everything to do with what you wanted and nothing in the way of what you want for your child, which apparently you hadn't even thought about at all.
I have not yet met a teenage dad or mom who had any idea why people actually get jobs, or go to college, or anything; most of them I've met don't even have any interests or plans for the future. Their kids will live in hardship for nothing, all because of their ridiculously incompetent "parents", two people who according to Darwin should not have even lived long enough to actually mate.
I apologize for my harsh tone, I just am completely bewildered by people's behavior sometimes.
God I love this rant! *HIGH FIVES* I completely agree with you and coincidentally went on a similar rant at home, earlier this evening, brought on by news of my sister's 16 year old step daughter (her fiancé's daughter) deciding to up and move across country with baby and baby-daddy in tow, no jobs, and move right into their house, presumably because crackhead grandma (16 year old's mom) couldn't take the nuisance of a baby anymore?, that's already overcrowded, whilst awaiting government housing. Can you say brain dead trash?
I don't have a rant. Just a small outburst: Am I the last sane person on this planet??! !! The prevalence of stupidity and craziness is really starting to piss me off.
That's all.