the politicians have a lot to answer and everyone's talking on the leadership has also made clear that responsibility must go up the ranks for what happened in afghanistan. accountability ris with those who allegedly broke the law and with the chain of command responsible for the systemic failures involved. ironically, general campbell himself was in command of australian troops in the country from 2011 to 2012, where most of the killings in the brutal report took place even receiving a distinguished service cross for his efforts. his medal doesn't appear to be up for a vacation. and as the scandal drags on with army chiefs finding themselves under fire from all sides, accused of doing too little too late. dodging blame themselves are now collectively punishing innocent veterans, whatever the outcome, the broken report fallout is only just beginning, but probably not there. now back to today for my thoughts on the whole team. good

bye and visit us again and see struthers financial survival guide liquid assets. not those that you can convert into this point easily. to keep in mind though, our system in place is much closer to our i think one of the worst things as a kid is what you want to do. it's not what you want to do. it's why do you do the things you do? you could design a life that is focused on your watch being aware of work as a way of expression. people ask me what motivates me every day and i look, i'm just being me. i started my company because it was an expression of myself. i am just painting on a canvas, but i think if we can teach them that think of their work and their life as

a place to express themselves and then dream of what they see themselves becoming. having that strategic mistake makes you think more long term rather than the short term what athletes are told to picture making the shot before they take the shot. and i think that the same thing is true for the rest of us. we have to picture what our goal is, is looking like and not just pick an arbitrary goal, but what do we want our life to look like? and then create a plan to get there. and we can help kids do better, but it's in their own hands. it's in their hands, that's a lesson every kid should learn. and those sort of step the responsibility i can make sure that i never will be poverty. and my kids and i will of the party if i do the right thing.

hello, my name's wendy 18 years old. i go to caprica high school and i am a c. year this year. there was a dozen still live together. there is a 3 bedroom house. there was a lot of trouble when the economy hit and everything my parents, they both had lost their jobs. it was kind of hard for us to even like cat food, all my life even now i'm still on free and reduced lunch. free with my little brother house free and reduced lunch and there was 5 of my sophomore year. i was on a journey with r.p.c. and coming back slowly nauseous from there and started noticing that i was feeling different. like you're either believe it or you're pregnant and i was like,

i don't think i'm believe like i eat all the time. like, well i'd watch a pregnancy test and i was like what as i don't like that or. and so there's a pregnancy test that came out positive and just kind of frightening. so my mom told me what any other parent would say to their kids are going to be fine. we're going to get through this. no matter what happens. what am i going to do with my going to finish school? how am i going to do any of the set all just terrified out of my mind. it turns out in the u.s. right now, an awful lot of children are being born to parents and parents who are not married to each other. that is about 50 percent of the birth, the youngest generation,

in other words, about half of the birth. and the youngest generation are babies born outside of marriage to typically quite young parents. we have normal over being with kids who are single parent, generally education in themselves that they also think kids who come from married couple families more of our kids with their married parents live for their whole childhood with their married parents. that also can make a huge difference. they'll do better in school, will be more likely college. and even though they might compositions magically over the last 3 or 4 decades, more kids aren't still families who are kids who are both their parents. i think americans are going to figure this out. single parents alone have high stress

levels. stigma comes against them because they're single parents as teenagers, we have these adult problems. so we feel like we're adults. but we're very malleable in the sense that we're still children in a way. our emotions go up and down and happens is so many kids are making these very tough decisions around friends and peer groups. and they're making a lot of decisions around relationships and who their phones love with their intimacy with those people. and it's just this kind of like these tough things, like what really a lot of kids in poverty. i never thought i would ever play because i was, i am, i fell out of standing there. i feel so much charity work so much community service or everyone at school is like, wendy's pain. business. you know from our mind as she would get away from our family. isn't she the church girl? i never thought that would happen. you don't think from one night something is

going to pop out 9 months later, you just think, oh, it happened once here. keep going, the 5 and a half and know what? you see the picture and blow your whole world. just turn upside down. when we talk about participating in risky behavior, whether we're talking about having sex, doing drugs, drinking, watching pornography, whatever it is, getting involved in social media becoming really addicted to whatever device it is that you're using. if we're talking about any of those risks to be, i think it's important to consider the outcomes of those that it's important to consider that we're not living for just this moment. we have a child don't fall into the only really think about the cost that it takes to

be a parent, the cost in time, the cost and finances. and i would encourage you to wait until you're married before you have kids wait until, you know you've got that 2nd parent, that 2nd income that can help you raise that child. what kills me is when i see a kid with all the academics to rock it, you know, they get these all lazy. finally, they finally break this glass ceiling where they put all this hard work in their academics. and then they get pregnant with their, with their high school sweetheart. and i think literally just take 3 steps back. and i think it's because there's this intelligence, we just don't talk about like relationship and the strategy around what you do as an emotional being always been a daddy's girl. i would go to him for everything. when i got pregnant, he distance along. he had different views than i did when i told him i was going to

keep matthew. you're going to keep going to keep you like he saw me completely. i had matthew on april 26th. i called a month later to see how he was doing to catch up to see if he wanted to see my son . he calls me this like, i still can't believe you decided to keep him. you could have had a future. now you're not going to have anything and it's been built 3 years. and i haven't heard from one. i've heard it from people. one of my teachers actually, when i wasn't there. and everyone from the class told me she said if wendy was my daughter, i would take the baby away from her razor, myself. sure. but now she's not going to amount to anything. and hearing it from my

dad now and saying, you're not going to bounce anything. you're not going to have a future anymore. because i decided to keep my son. it broke me. and we as a society have lied to me, mis, we've been dishonest with. because what we have said is that you can behave any way that you choose, you can make any decision or choice that you want to make. whatever you feel this this day, you can make those kinds of decisions. and we will do the best that we can to alleviate the consequence. but the fact is, we cannot alleviate the consequences. it is true that you make your own decisions. you can choose any of these paths that you want to choose. but we are being dishonest to you when we say we can help you avoid consequences. there are consequences for the choices that you know, having sex outside of marriage is not going to fill the void that you're trying to

fill. it only creates more and more of a vast open debate within you, because you are opening yourself in the most mourner of all way to another human being who is in no way committed. and his whose actions are really out of selfishness unlikely. and a desire to meet a need that day the day i had him, i started getting ready. i started a campaign and then by the time i got there, they told me it was too late for me to have it. i'm just bawling my eyes out. i was like, i don't know what to do, i've never done this. and whenever he got there, i was scared the 1st time i change just like i care to change the diaper, he will finish. but what do you mean? you can't just type of like i can't do this. i am fix, tina, i can do this. i cannot support him. i cannot just call work and raise

a child bearing at this precious little boy mile at me. and i'm thinking i can't do that at all. the only thing going through my head, it was, i cannot do that. if you find yourself pregnant at 15, there is no easy option for you. you can choose to have an abortion, and that is not an easy option. it leaves damage for the rest of your life for you and for your family. having a child at 15 made all kinds of issues because now you're not just a typical high school kid. your response will, for another human be you're going to have to find a way to bring in candy. you're going to have to tend to a sick baby in the middle of the not when you have homework and you have to get up early and go to class yourself. and then your other option would be to place your baby for adoption,

which is the most difficult decision i've ever seen. a young person, it is a wonderful choice, and it is often the best choice for that child, but it is heart wrenching and extremely difficult. so once you find yourself in an unplanned pregnancy, we can't take away those consequences and you now have very difficult decisions to me. so i have my little brother, you know, i have my son and about to be 2 in april. i wake up at 6 in the morning, around 7, and i will wake up my little brother and mother around 720. i will get matthew ready for my sisters at 730. take my little brother the 730. i get to school and i'm racing. i'm running, rushing to get there. i get out of school, i want 30 and i going to work out and get off of school. i asked my sister, shall i play with matthew for 30 minutes, but i have and then i go to work. and whenever i get my 30 minute lunch break,

do the same thing, go to my suspicion and spend time with then go back. and then i get off work around 9. i want to put them both before you after i put them both to sleep. i are working on my homework at around 1030 and i usually fall asleep. but i wanted to do is you'll be a reflection of reality in the world transformed what will make you feel safe from

isolation in the community. are you going the right way or are you being less direct? what is true and what's his face? you need so join us in the depths of this 15 year old is all of that. have that you are lazy that you are incapable, but you are still because i don't believe any of those things and believe that you have purpose. i believe that greatness is only i believe that you bring value into

people's lives into the law. if you choose to hear that it's not going to be and we have failed, and it is now our job to come along. to enable you to make better choices for my momma. watch the 1st color. i love and love differently. watching him taking over my head. she told me for the 1st time, i know i never tell you this often, but i'm so proud of you. you are born

and everything and everything that was this is what i have will i cried. there's a group of villagers working the fields by river. when someone in the group noticed a baby floating downstream. one of the men rushed into the water rescue the baby and brought it to shore. before it could recover, a number of babies were found floating downstream. for a long, there's a steady flow of babies floating down the river and the whole village was involved in the rescue effort. pulling babies out of the water and making sure they were

made safe. but not all of them could be some are pulled under by the raging river whether slipped through the villagers hands while others fell back into the water as the villagers tried to save them. the villagers were saving as many babies as they could. but before long, they became exhausted from all their effort. frustrated. controversy erupted in the woods. one group argued that every possible hand was needed downstream to help rescue the babies. they didn't have everyone's help, they would lose too many downstream. the other group argued that every possible hand was needed upstream to get find out how the babies were getting into the water. they could save all of them and eliminate the need for the costly and time consuming efforts downstream.

to find out how these babies are falling into the river in the 1st place, we can stop this and no more babies will drown. if we go upstream, we can eliminate the cause of the problem. but it's too risky. some said, might fail or take too long to lose too many lives not only to the ones he's lost hand or teach your children to fix the problems upstream . he's hazy on him telling him to drink from a separate water fountains and say, what's on a lot. ok. but was different about the water coming out of that sound?

in comparison to the mountain that was of the posts of me that go up my real life. most of the people from complete all that life based around 20 children. you know, there are 2 ways to address poverty. one is to try to prevent it from ever occurring in the 1st place. and the 2nd is if it does occur to a mill, you're right. you know, provide people with assistance with child. 8 care with als say that has to be, but you have to help those who are need now and you have to help those in the future. in order to do both. you have to work downstream, but you have to have circumstances that got us to where we are. and so our approach to every person, every stanley and poverty needs to be,

is unique as that person and that family. and that's difficult to do, and it's a little overwhelming to think about. but people are different. it's interesting looking back historically on what we've done to address poverty in the united states. it's mostly been to provide people with assistance of various cars and those things are needed. i think we should not leave people destitute and without such assistance, there is not a lot of evidence that those things are going to move people out of poverty except temporarily. i don't think americans are in favor of simply redistributing and what they want is to provide everyone an opportunity to get ahead on their we believe in equality of opportunity, not equality of results. i

went to a conference once the conference was an opportunity conference where we invited 74 families from our community and hopes to just allow a pathway to cycle out of poverty. majority of the people in this conference were generational poverty. so they came in and they heard from dr. donna beagle on her story and were encouraged, it was a 6 hour program. and she would say, how many of you know what it is to have a disconnect? notice how many of you know what it is to receive an eviction notice. and before long arms were coming up and she allowed them to see that if i can do it, you can too. we all have hope with this sometimes just gets buried. so i had the opportunity to visibly see hope rise to the surface of 74 people. and that's not something that you can contain. we knew you can't contain hope. i left this place with hope and i'm going to tell everybody about it. i want them to know what i know

and i'm going to succeed. because people came in the room, they didn't know me. and i matter. i wasn't born. i am hard. right? i'm no longer in this isolation or all of that, or i have to walk around and lead with this label of shame. little by little, the hope starts to take that label off. and when people come into place, you're able to replace that label with words of worth. instead of allowing that person to feel we all are the same when it comes to what our basic needs are and what our basic desires are. and i think if we really think about what we have in common with one another, that's where we can start to create a basis of understanding a person saying, i'm not going to judge you. i'm not going to criticize you. i'm not going to do you

value your lived experience because it's different than my you say to the other human being, what ever dream you've ever had is still possible when i was growing up, it built like there were a few kids that were completely off the list and there are a few kids that were trying really hard to make good choices and really had their focus at where it needed to be. but most of us are somewhere in this gray area where we're trying to get our toes as close to the line as we can without completely stepping over. but we weren't really convicted either way. we're just all kind of trying to get by getting what i see now is that there are more kids off the rails. there are very few kids in this very area. but there

are a lot of young people who are committed, who are strong, who are focused, who want to make good decisions and who are making and having an impact on the people around. that is my hope for the next generation. and that hope comes from the stories that we tell that hope comes from us saying to our scholars, you can do this. we're going to stand by you. we're going to help you get through this. they have the power to turn this ship away. and it happens by making one good decision. after that, one of the bigger you actually realize the things you do from 14 to 24 hour, compound interest of things that like we're going to take you to places that you

can't even understand what you do today is going to play more compound interest that anything else you're playing a game that's bigger than yourself, you're playing a game for yourself, or your family's name, or your kids that don't even exist yet for your grandkids. who are going to benefit off of the hard work you put into that. not all poverty is preventable, but we know certainly that based on research and research that we're using for our programs, some of that can be preventable. we want to help them. we want to help the community around us. nat's what we're trying to rally our community around and support a lot of times when i work with people who currently live in the crisis of poverty, they'll soon not smart enough to get a skill. not smart enough to go to college, to ask for help. got to ask for help in poverty issue. don't ask for help. that's the wrong message. nobody makes it alone. absolutely no one. we have to work

together. we have to overlap with other organizations we have to be. community is the key, is allowing hope, but we can't allow hope we can't communicate. we can't allow worth until there's a relationship. if we movement that not only helps those who are in the river, but also gives them the to help their kids and their kids not be in the river, that's the movement. we want a way to reach out to people across these barriers of poverty, barriers of political opinion. we can really find some unique treasures in people who are different from us and find out that they're not so different after all.

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