me i oh, i think one of the worst things i asked a kid is, what do 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 why 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 canvas, but i think if we can teach them that think of their work in their life as a place to express themselves and then dream of what they see themselves becoming, having that strategic mass that makes you think more long term rather than short term, what athletes are told to picture making the shots 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 picking 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 hands. it's in their hands that's less than we could check on, and they should have chapter responsibility. i can make sure that i never live in poverty. and my kids never live in poverty. if i do the right thing, i hello my name is wendy 18 years old. i go to cooper high school and i am a senior this year growing up, there was 8 of the still live together. there is

a 3 bedroom house. there was a lot of the economy hit and everything. my parents, both, they both had lost their job. it was kinda hard for us to even like have food, all my life even now. i'm still on free and reduced lunch. so now we have free reduced lunch. my little brother has free and reduced lunch and there was 5 of i thought i was 15. i was on a journey with rtp and coming back, also nauseous from there. i started noticing that i was feeling different. all the sudden sounds like you're either believe me or you're pregnant and i was like, i don't think i'm bullying big. like i eat all the time because i like, well i watch for pregnancy tests and i was like what kinda looked at or and so why the pregnancy tests and they came out positive been just kind of cried. so my mom told me what any other parent would say to their kid. she said,

you're going to be fine. we're going to get through this. no matter what happened in what am i going to do? how am i going to finish school? how am i going to do any of this at all? me terrified out of my mind, me turns out that 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 about 50 percent of the birth amongst the youngest generation. in other words, about half of the birth in the youngest generation are babies born outside of marriage to typically quite young parents. we learn over the years by doing careful with kids who are from single parents, families, generally education and brought themselves and was able

to and then they also have not then kids who come from every couple of them. i one of our kids working with their married parish and lived for the whole child with their married parents. that also can make a huge difference. they'll do better in school, will be more likely will college. and even though family composition has changed dramatically over the last 3 or 4 decades, way more families waves where kids are, where americans are going to figure this out. single parents alone have as high stress levels, have stigma men because against them because they're single parents, me, teenagers, we have these adult pharma for we feel like we're adult. but we're, we're very malleable and we're still children in a way. our emotions go up and down. and so what happens is, so many kids are making these very tough decisions around friends and peer groups.

they're making a lot of decisions around relationships and with their phone, with and the intimacy with those people. and this kind of like the top names like what really hinders a lot of kids in poverty. i never thought i would ever simply because i was, i still am a straight, a student. i do so much charity work so much community service or everyone. i school is like, wendy's isn't she? the smart one is a she got one from her family, isn't she the church girl? i never thought that happened. you don't think from 19 is going to pop out 9 months later. you just think what happened one year, keep going with live, love going to happen me and know when you see the picture, blue, your whole world just turn upside down.

i, when we're talking about the idea of participating in risky behavior, whether we're talking about having doing drugs, drinking, watching pornography, whatever it is, and getting involved in social media and becoming really addicted to whatever device it is that you're using. if we're talking about any of those risky behaviors, i think it's important to consider the outcomes of those things. 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 element. 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 kit. wait until, you know you've got that 2nd parent that 2nd and that can help you raise that child . what kills me when i see a kid with all the academic rocking, you know,

they get these all lazy. finally, they finally break this feeling where they put all the hard work in their academics, but then they get pregnant with their, with their high school. we literally just take 3 steps back and i think it's because there's this huge emotional intelligence where we just don't talk about like relationships and a strategy around what you do as an emotional being ah, i'm always been a daddy's girl. i would go to him for everything. when i got pregnant, he did. he had different views and i did. when i told him i was going to keep matthew. he said you're going to keep them. well. i'm not going to keep you like he suddenly completely. i had matthew in april of 2016. i called him a month later to see how he was doing the catch up to see if you wanted to see my

son. he called me. he's 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 still 3 years. and i haven't heard from him once. i've heard from people, one of my teachers actually said it 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 and raise it myself so that she can teacher. but now she's not going to amount to anything. and hearing it from my dad, now him saying, you're not getting anything, you're not going to have a future anymore. because i decided to keep my son. it broke me in a we, as a society have lived we've been, we've been dishonest because what we have said is that you can be,

have 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 content. but the fact is, we cannot alleviate the constantly, it is true that you make your own decisions. you can choose any of the path that you want to choose, that we are being dishonest to you. when we say we can help you avoid cost. there are consequences for the choices that you may, having sex outside of marriage is not going to fill the void that you're trying to do. it only creates more and more of a vast, open wound. deep within you because you are opening yourself in the most vulnerable way to another human being who is in no way committed to you and his

actions are really out of selfishness likely and a desire to meet a need that day the day i had them, i started getting ready. i started getting pain and then but out there they told me was too late for me to even guess after. i'm just falling crying. my. 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 right. like i can change the diaper. he listened like what do you mean? he catches diaper like, i can't do this. i am 16, i can do this. i cannot support for him. i cannot do school work and raise a child. i'm staring at this precious little boy smile at me and i can't do that. i don't. the only thing going through my head was i cannot get in 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 lead to 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 can you're going to have to tend to a sick baby in the middle of the night when you have homework and you have to get up personally 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

ah, so i have my little brother, he's mine. i have my son about to be 2 and april. i wake up at 6 morning at around 7. i will wake up, my little brother, and not around 720. i will get master ready. i'll drop them off at my sisters at 730. take my little brother the score 730. i guess it's gone on racing. i'm running, rushing to get there. i get out of school at $130.00 and i was going to work at 2 and get off the school. i have some at the south. 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 thing, go to my sister cell and spend time with them and go back. and then i get off before around 9. i are going to put them both after i put them, please, i will start working on my homework around 1030 and i usually fall asleep at about one or 2.

i look forward to talking to you all. that technology should work for people. a robot must obey the orders given it by human beings, accept where's the short or conflict with the 1st law show your identification. we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. at the point obviously is too great truck rather than fear i would take on various jobs with artificial intelligence. real, somebody with demon a robot must protect its own existence, was calling to mechanics work so well people don't like to use the word inconsistent. they like

to say, oh it's, it's amazing. comprehensible. mysterious. i say it can't be quite right. and this is what direct says, this is what sign and shredding ah ah ah . mm. so what i would say to

a 15 year old is i apologize that had convinced me that you are lazy, that you are entitled that you are incapable that you are because i don't lose any of that. i believe that you have i believe that greatness is i believe that you bring value into other people's lives and you'll bring value to the lot of this child. if you choose that it's not going to be and we have failed, and it is now our job to come alongside of and supported to enable you to make better choices don't. ah, my mom watch matthews, the 1st here that i had and i was still there. thank you mom. i love you. i appreciate you. and what she would say back was, oh, okay, me. she chose her love differently to show her love by watching him taking care of me. making sure i had a roof over my head. ah,

she told me for the 1st time. i know i never tell you that often, but i am so proud of you. to have a baby you are working. you're going to fall. not only that you're getting scholarship, she told me that i was a fighter. and if you're a strong woman fighter for me to get a message from her saying, i'm proud of you and everything that you're complicating and everything that you're doing for me was the best i could ever get. this is what i have been working for years is to get a simple, i'm proud of me . there is a group of villagers working the field by river when someone in the group noticed

the baby floating downstream. ah, one of the men rushed into the y, rescued the baby and brought it to shore. before he could recover a number of babies for sound 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. i summer pulled under by the raging river other slipped through the villagers, while others fell back into the water as the villagers tried to save them. the villagers were saving as many babies as they could before along the beacon software . from all their efforts frustrated controversy arrested each one group argue that every possible handler needed downstream to help rescue a baby. they didn't have everyone's help. it would lose too many downstream.

the other group argue that every possible hand was needed upstream. find out how the babies were getting into the water, all of them and eliminate the need for the costly and time consuming effort downstream. they find out how these babies are falling into the river in the 1st place. we can start in no more babies will drown figure upstream. we can eliminate because of the problem me, but is too risky. something might fail or take too long. lose too many live me. i me and our future children to fix the problem upstream phase one

else falling into a drink from a different water fountain and you've been one of them. i call it till i was 12 years old. okay, so what's different about the water coming out of that found in comparison? so the other mountain that i wasn't supposed to me, i grew up my real life most buried that keep people from completely experiencing all that life. offer me a place around in you know, there 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 ameliorate, provide people with assistance with child care with housing. so it has to be to be

have to help those who need now, and you have to help those who might be needing future in order do you suppose you have to know work down through the circumstances that got us where we are unique. and so our approach, every person and every family and poverty, needs to be as unique as that person in 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, the united states, it's mostly been to provide people with assistance. so various kinds and those things are needed. i think we should not lead people destitute and without such assistance. but there's 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 income. what they want is to provide everyone an opportunity to get ahead on their own. we believe in equality of opportunities, not equality of results. i went to a conference when the conference was an opportunity conference where we invited 74 families from our community and hoped to just allow on 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. donnelly, b, goal her story and were encouraged, it was 6 hour program and she would say, how many of you know what it is to have a just going to notice how many of you know what it is did receive an eviction notice. and for long arms were coming up and she allowed them to see that if i can do it, you can to,

we all have hope with and sometimes it just gets buried. so i had the opportunity to visibly see hope rise to the surface that happened before 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 her everybody about it. i want them to know what i know and i'm going to succeed because people came in the room that didn't know me. and i matter. i was important. i. i am part right. i'm no longer in the isolation where i'm irrelevant or i have to walk around and lead with the label. shane little by little. the hope starts to take that label off. and when people come into play, you're able to replace that label with words in word. instead of allowing that person to feel me,

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 for 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 the value your lived experience because it's different than mine. you say to the other human being what ever dream you've ever had is still oh i when i was growing, it felt like there were a few that were completely off. i and there are a few kids that were trying really hard to make good choices and really had their focus that where it needed to be that most of us were 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 and we're just all kind of trying to get 9. get a what i see now is that there are more kids off the room. there are very few kids in the gray area that there are a lot of young people who are committed to are strong, who are folk who want to make good news and who are making and having an impact on the people around. that is my hope for the next generation in awe. and that hope comes from the stories that we tell that hope comes from as saying who are 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 the ship right. and it happens by making one good decision after the new one of the bigger you have to realize that unfortunate 24 are compound interest of things that we're going to take you to places that you can even understand. what we do today is going to play more compound interest. if anything else you're playing again, the bigger than yourself is playing a game for yourself, for your family's name, for your kids that don't even exist yet. and for your granted who are going to benefit off of the hardware, ah, not all poverty is preventable, but we know certainly that based on research and the research that we're using for our program, and some of that can be preventable, we want to help them. we want to help the community around us,

and that'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 feel she's not smart enough to get us, you know, smart enough ask for help. god ask for help in poverty tv. you 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 at community fighting. the key is allowing hope and we can't allow for, we can't communicate. we can allow worse than television relationship if we can spark of movement. that not only helps those who are in the river, but also gives them the tool to help their kids and their kids. kids not being the river, that's the movement we want. when we reach out to people across these barriers, poverty, barriers of political opinions. we can really

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