hello my name is wendy 80 years old i go to cab high school and i am a senior this year going up there was 8 other still live together there is a 3 bedroom house there was a lot of trouble when the economy hit and everything my parents both they both had lost their jobs it was kind of hard for us to even like have food in my life even now i'm still on free and reduced lunch so now. i've always had really did much my little brother had free and reduced lunch and there was 5 of. my software and i was 15. i was on a journey with r.b.c. and coming back slowly nauseous from there and started noticing that i was feeling

different all of that and like you're either believing or you're pregnant and all like i don't think i'm believing a like i had all the time is i like well i watch the pregnancy tests and i was like what it is kind of like better and so i did the pregnancy test and it came out positive and just kind of frightening so my mom told me what any other parent would say to their kid. you're going to be fine we're going to get through this no matter what happened. what am i going to do now when my going to finish school how am i going to do any of the sat all. the you just. terrified out of my mind. it turns out in the u.s. right now an awful lot of children are being born to young parents. and parents

who are not married to each other that is a bad out 50 percent at the births of 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 been on over the years by careful studies the kids who are from single parent families generally get less education than. in themselves and was told there they also in the past. didn't kids who come from married couple families. more of our kids were with their married parents and lived for their whole childhood with their married parents that also could make a huge difference they'll do better in school they'll be more likely college and even though they might compositions changed dramatically over the last 3 or 4 decades more kids are in still families who are kids were both there so i think

americans are going to figure this out single parents alone have high stress levels stigma because it gets them because they're single parents. as teenagers we have these adult 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 go when happens is though 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 phone love with their intimates deal with those people and it's just this kind of like these tough things like what really enters a lot of kids in poverty. i never thought i would. ever play because i was i am i fell out of standing i feel so much charity work so much community service or everyone at school is like. wendy springer isn't she

the smart one isn't she one good one from her 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 i have the ones here keep going with 5 . and a half. and no when you see the picture of blue your whole world just. turned upside down. and when you 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 you know don't don't fall into the teen pregnancy 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. we've been

a daddy's girl i would go to him for everything. you know when i got pregnant he distance and so long he has different views than i did when i told him i was going to keep matthew. you're going to keep. i'm not going to keep you. completely. i had matthew on april 26th. i called him a month later to see how he was doing. to catch up to see if you wanted to see my son he called me. but 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 3 years. and i haven't heard from him 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 when he was my daughter i would take the baby away from her and raise it myself so that she covers

future but now she's not going to amount to anything. and hearing from my dad now. and saying you're not going to amount to anything you're not going to have a future anymore because i decided to keep my son. it broke me. as a society have lied to us we've been we've been dishonest. because what we have said to you 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 day you can make those kinds of decisions and we will do the best that we can to alleviate the cons. but the fact is we cannot alleviate the consequence that 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. consequence is there are

consequences for the choices that you make 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 wound. within you because you are opening yourself in the most mourner of all way to another human being who is in no way committed to and his whose actions are really out of selfishness and likely and a desire to meet a need that day. the day i had him i started getting ready i started getting pain 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. tearing 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 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 you're responsible for another human being 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 night when you have homework in yes to get

a person 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 a very difficult decisions to make. so i have my little brother he's mine i have my son. will be about to be 2 when it 1st i wake up at 6 in the morning at around 7 i will wake up my little brother and mother around 720 i will get master ready i'll drop him off at my sister's at 730 take my little brother the school 730 i get the score motor racing run the rushing to get there i get out of school at 130 and i was going to work out to get off the school i had some of the fish out i

play with matthew for the 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 sister's house and spend time with them go back and then i get off a fork or on mine i put them both this way and after i put them both to sleep i will start working on my homework of around 1030 and i usually fall asleep but are about one or 2. others' financials. i'm honest she. has left some of my eggs from the future. talks are underway in vienna to save the j.c.

peel away the agreement the trump administration unilaterally walked away from making the deal is relatively easy but that cannot be said for the united states does the buy didn't ministration have the political will to say yes to the. problem drugs has come from unscrupulous dealers but from pharmacies to in every state in the united states we seem very sharp increase in the number of people seeking treatment for addiction to prescription opioids it invaded america under the banner of medicine persisted with the pain but instead of trying to. go she did . after dose after dose after dose and really became his drug dealer who's to blame patients doctors manufacturers the government.

so. is. have that. that you are lazy. that you are selfish because i don't believe any of those things and i. believe that you have purpose i believe that greatness is only. i believe that you bring

value into other people's lives into the law and if you choose to hear that it's not going to be easy and we have failed and it is now. better choices go. my mama watch. my love. and. love differently. she told me. i know i never tell you this often but i'm so proud of you. you are. born.

everything that. this is what i have. i'm proud of. 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 rescued the baby and brought it to shore before it could recover a number of babies were found floating downstream before long there was a steady flow of babies floating down the river and the whole village was involved in the rescue efforts 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 milledge 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 think of 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. eat away. the onesies was handle she says children to fix the problems upstream sees one calling. a drink from a separate water fountains and. the case that was different about the water. coming out of it found. in

comparison. to the mountain that was of the posts of me. that grew up my real life most of the. people from completely. all that life. placed around them. with the 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 care with als say it has to be but. you have to help those who are in need now and you have to help those. in the future and in order to do both you have to not only work downstream but you have to have the circumstances that got us 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 kinds and those things are needed i think we should not leave people destitute and without such assistance bob there's not a lot of evidence. 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 own we believe in equality of opportunity. 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 a generational poverty so they came in and they heard from dr beagle 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 where i'm irrelevant 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. yes and. 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. felt like there were a few kids that were completely off the leash. and there were 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 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 to day 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 that we can allow hope we can communicate we can allow worthen tell their generation if we can spark a movement that not only helps those who are in the river but also gives them the tools to help their kids and their kids' kids not be in the river that's the movement we want only reach out to people across. these barriers of poverty barriers. of political opinion and. we can really find some unique treasures in people who are different from others and find out that they're not so different after all.

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because the banks are getting so much free money from the government they don't want to take even any risk on any small to medium sized enterprise or anyone looking to buy a house because why take any risk at all if the government's just going to stuff trillions of dollars on your balance sheet.

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