Lost their jobs it was kind of hard for us to even like have food in my life even now im still on free and reduced lunch so now and ive always had really do much my little brother had for a reduced lunch and there was 5 and. My sophomore year i was 15. I was on a journey and with r. B. C. And coming back. From there and started noticing that i was feeling different all the sudden like youre either believing or youre pregnant and all like i dont think im believing the like i eat all the time is i like well ive watched a pregnancy test and i was like what it is kind of like better and so i did the pregnancy test and they came out positive and just kind of fried and so my mom told me what any other parent would say to their kid. Youre going to be fine were going to get through this no matter what happens. What am i going to do how am i going to finish school how am i going to do any of this that all. Just. Terrified out of my mind. It turns out that any us right now and an awful lot of children are being born to parents and parents who are not married to each other that is a bad 50 percent at the births amongst the youngest generation in other words about half of the brothers 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 the single parent families generally get less education than. In themselves and was told there they also in the past. Didnt kids who come from every couple for. More of our kids will be with their married parents live for their whole childhood with their married parents that also make a huge difference theyll do better in school will be more likely college and even though they might compositions change dramatically over the last 4 decades more kids are in still poor families who were 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 theyre Single Parents. As teenagers we have these adult problems that we feel like were adults but were very malleable in the sense that were still children in a way our emotions go up and down and when happens is though many kids are making these very tough decisions around friends and peer groups and theyre making a lot of decisions around relationships and who their phone. With the intimacy with those people and just this kind of like these tough things like. A lot of kids in poverty. I never thought i would. Ever play because i was i am i still am training i do so much charity work so Much Community service or everyone at school is like the Spring Business you a smart one isnt she one good one from her family isnt she the church girl i never thought this would happen. You dont think from one night. Its going to pop out 9 months later you just think oh i have it once here keep going with 5. And a half. And know when you see the picture of blue your whole world just. Turned upside down. And when we talk about participating in risky behavior whether were 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 youre using if were talking about any of those risks to be i think its important to consider. The outcomes of those that its important to consider that were not living for just this moment we have a child dont. 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 youre married before you have kids wait until you know youve 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 you put all this part. Working their academics. And then they get pregnant with their high school. And then like literally just take 3 steps back and i think its because theres a. New intelligence we just dont talk about like relationship and the strategy around what you do as an emotional. Im always been a daddys girl i would go to him for everything. And so long. Youre going to. Completely. Later. Decided. Now youre not going to have anything. Heard from. Her. And everyone told me she said. My daughter i would. Have been dishonest. Is that. Any way that 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 make having sex outside of marriage is not going to fill the void that youre 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 a 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. Im just bawling my eyes out like i dont know what to do ive never done this and whenever he got there. I was scared the 1st time i change just. Like i care to change the diaper it will finish but what do you mean you cant just type of like i cant do this i am take 15 or i can do this i cannot support for him i cannot just call work and raise a child. Bearing at this precious little boy mile at me and im thinking i cant 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. It 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. All kinds of issues because now youre not just a Typical High School kid your response will for another human be youre going to have to find a way to bring in candy youre 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 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 ive 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 cant take away those consequences and you now have very difficult decisions to me. So i have my little brother. And me about to be doing it for. Me wake up at 6 in the morning around 7 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 to 730 i get to school and im racing im rushing to get there i get out of school i want 30 and my going to work out and get off or i. Play with matthew 30 minutes but i have and then i go and whenever i get my 30 minute lunch break do the same thing go to my Sisters Health and spend time with them. And then i get off work around 9 i put them both for you after i put them both. Working on my homework over 1030 and i usually fall asleep but i dont want to. As a culture war consumes american politics during this election cycle the economy remains in a big area state millions of people live on the margins the only constant for them is the insecurity economists debate and eventual recovery they speak of the you and you know but is the reality the change. Permanent. Is your media a reflection of reality. In a world transformed. What will make you feel safe from. The isolation for community. Are you going the right way or are you being led. Direct. What is truth what is faith. In the world corrupted you need to descend. To join us in the depths. Or a maybe in the shallowness. Cast calendar is Darren Alfonzo among. This changing page change dard survey or. His 1st words were added i will see youre a challenging post youve got to use to me as. I have no doubt that what happened was criminal. Offense concentrate makis 1000000000. 00 industry these companies have a huge financial motivation to solve these problems there are numerous documents showing that doctors were keen to chest x. Ray concentrates for insights of its own that patients gives them doctors the wrong stoplight. Term system why they would keep me from security procedures day after day and people still die i dont know which question are still alive arent being allowed to live when so many have. So what i would say to a 15 year old is. I apologize that would have convinced you. That you are lazy but you are in tiger that you are incapable but you are selfish because i dont believe any of those things and. I believe that you have a purpose i believe that greatness is on the things. I believe that you bring value into other peoples lives and your bring value into the lot of this child if you choose to hear that its not going to do things and we have failed and it is now i job to come alongside and in support to enable you to make better choices go. My mama watch matthew the 1st year that i had. You know what i would rather. Thank you mom i love you i appreciate you and what you would say back with ok before she shows her love differently. You want to show her love by watching him. Taking care of me making shadow on my head. She told me for the 1st time i know i never tell you this often but im so proud of you you have a baby you are working youre going to form not only that youre getting all the shit she told me that i was if it and if. Youre a strong woman buy it. From me to get a message from her saying im proud of you and everything they are complex and everything that youre doing for me was the best prez i could ever get this is what i have been working for him but he years to get us some. Im proud of. Theres a group of villagers working the fields of fire river when someone in the group noticed a baby floated downstream. One of the men rushed into the water rescued the baby and brought it to shore before he could recover a number of babies were found floating downstream surely 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 regime 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 is they could before long the medium exhaust. From all the effort. Frustrated controversy erupted in the image one group argued that every possible hand was needed downstream to help rescue the babies they didnt have everyones hope 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 you could save all of them in a limb an ape 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 its too risky some said might fail or take too long. To lose too many lives. We owe it to the ones weve lost and our future children to fix the problem upstream and save one else falling into. A drought from a separate water fountains used in texas well how much. Ok what was different about the water. Coming out of that found. Person. The other mountain that was in the boat in the. Other go up more real than most of the. People from completely. All that life all for. The round. When in your. 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 1000000 you know provide people with assistance with childcare hours say you have to be. Have to help those who are in need. And you have to help those. In the future and in order to do both you have to work downstream to go through the circumstances that got us to where we are are unique and so our approach to every person and every family and poverty needs to be as unique as that person in that family and thats difficult to do and its a little overwhelming to think about but people are different its interesting looking back historically on what weve done to address poverty the United States its 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. There is not a lot of evidence that those things are going to move people out of poverty except temporarily i dont 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 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 a generational poverty so they came in and they heard from dr diaby goal are her story and were going. Her issue was 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 thats not something that you can contain we knew you cant contain hope i left this place with hope and im going to tell everybody about it i want them to know what i know and im going to succeed because people came in the room they didnt know me and i matter i wasnt born. I am hard. Right im no longer in this isolation where im 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 youre 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 thats where we can start to create a basis of understanding a person saying im not going to judge you im not going to criticize you im not going to do you value your lived experience because its different than mine you say to the other human being what ever. Dream youve ever had is still possible. When i was growing up it felt like the. Were. That were completely. And there are a few kids that were trying really hard to make good choices. There. But most of us were somewhere in this gray area where were trying to get our toes as close as we can with completely stepping over. Their way were just trying to get. What. Is that there are more kids off the rails. There are very. There are. People who are committed who are strong who are focused who want to make good. Are making and. That is my hope for the next generation. And that hope comes from the stories that we hope. You can be this were going to stand by were going to help you get through this day after the power to turn the ship and. Good decision after that. One of the bigger. The things you do for 24 compound interest things that were going to take you to places that you can in but understand what you do today is going to play more interest that anything youre playing a game thats bigger than yourself or. Your familys name for your kids that dont even exist yet for your grandkids benefit for the hard work you put into. Not all poverty is preventable but we know certainly that based on research and the research that were using for our programs some of that can be preventable we want to help them we want to help the Community Around us and nats what were 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 so im not smart enough to get a skill not smart enough to go to college to ask for help you got to ask for help in poverty issue dont ask for help. Thats 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 biting was the key is allowing hope and we cant allow what we cant communicate hope we can allow worth until theres a relationship. That not only helps those who are in the river but also gives them the help their kids and their kids kids not be in the river thats the movement we want only reach out to people across. These barriers of poverty barriers of political opinions. We can really find some unique treasures in people who are different from months and find out that theyre not so different after all. Its going to be hard to reclaim freedom and were going to have to work at it but as people recognize from examples like. What repression Digital Systems need to. I hope people will start fighting. Men saying we wont tolerate systems. Streets in our homes that cant possibly track what were doing. Is youll media a reflection of reality. In a world transformed. What will make you feel safe from. The isolation community. Are you going the right way or are you being led so. What is true what is faith. In the world corrupted you need to descend. To join us in the depths. Or a maybe in the shallows. Time after time corporations repeat the same mantra sustainability its very important to excel or transitions to sustainable transport sustainability stay in her manner more equitable and sustainable. 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