I just finished checking my email. In it, my son's father had sent some wonderful pictures of him from their last weekend together. He is the most beautiful and important thing in my life, and I would not change anything about my decision to have him as a single woman. It hasn't been easy. I have had shed many tears since he has come into my life. Most of them happy, but some of them were out of fear and regret.

However, I recently had a pregnancy scare. Knowing everything I know about childbirth and motherhood--including the joy of having this gift in my life, I would have chosen to abort if I had been pregnant this time.

What is the purpose of this insulting law?

until respect is given to people who try to open up and express their feelings honestly. kiojn1 took a risk in his post and deserves to be respected for having the courage of owning those feelings and trying to explain the process of working through them. Sincere words are seldom perfectly smooth.

Xrandadu Hutman, sometimes you react so harshly you do more damage to your candidate than good. Go ahead, jump all over me now.

peace

Clinton is benefiting from her gender as shown by the support from women voters. She is a victim of sexism from those in positions of power--the DNC and media pundits.

Is because, far too often, women give up when being pressured to do so. She should not go easily.

If the girl has abusive parents, the knowledge of the pregnancy would be a weapon that they would use to abuse her for the rest of her life. That is the reason sitting down and talking with your parents isn't always an option.

I don't understand why the responses are so angry and judgmental. Thank you for debunking some myths. I have no doubt that the children are as wonderful as you say. Mothers of any age need acceptance and support in order to get through it with sanity intact. You may have been young, but you were smart enough to figure out how to create what you needed in order to be who your children needed you to be. That is what good parenting is about. So what if what you created didn't fit someone else's ideal plan. Life seldom follows our ideal plans.

It is the money that bothers you. It is always about money with angry people. Peace.

That is why we need more stories like this--to show teen mothers that there are other ways to handle the situation. A positive attitude goes a long way in helping one get out of difficult circumstances. Becky uses the example of her neighbor's selfish daughter to be her template of all teen mothers. I think that daughter would have been just as selfish without the baby or with the baby and a husband. It is too bad that those are the stories that get told over and over.

Just as likely as tapping your heels, twirling around and believing there will never be another teenage mother.

Becky, why are you so angry? It isn't healthy. Money is not all there is.

and BTW I am a single mother and yes to many of your questions, but luckily never any serious medical decisions. (I am blessed with a healthy child.) That must have been awful. I did go through a spell of filling my pockets with TP whenever I was in a public restroom--I dunno, life goes on and things have a way of working out for the better.

How about we get your nephew and your neighbor's daughter to weigh in on your life?

I am a single mother. I care for my child. Just me. I have never asked anyone for money to support him. Why did you give your nephew the money if you felt so strongly that it was wrong. Was it to feed some need of yours?

I get upset by comments like yours because I get lumped into your assumptions about single parenting. I had a man just last week tell me that people like me were what were wrong about the world. That was before he knew anything about me besides the fact that I was a single mother.

I spend a heck of a lot more time watching the children of my married friends than they ever do watching mine. They know that I am always home and always willing.

Peace

Hate much? Thanks for the giggle. Name calling--very intelligent. You have me so wrong. Where did I express any form of hate? I was not a teen mother, just a single one. I have a couple of degrees and have traveled extensively. We live simply by choice. Hard to have a dad in your life when he is dead.

Peace. Gotta go weed the garden.

Please...so, babies are just for the wealthy? Raising a kid is really not that expensive or that difficult unless you choose to make it so. I have observed many wealthy, two-parent families who have managed to really mess up their kids.

ALL poor children are destine to lives of misery. What a convenient theory for you, huh?