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 what they see themselves becoming having that strategic mistake makes you think more long term rather than the short term what athlete are told picks are 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 its in their hands its in their hands thats 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 live in poverty if i do the right thing. Hello my name is wendy 80 years old i got a cat from high school and i am a senior this year going up there was 8 of us the 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 im still on free and reduced lunch so now. Im only really did much my little brother has for a reduced lunch and there was 5 of them. Myself mary alice 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 the let in 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 while i watch the pregnancy tests and i like what i just kind of like better and so i did the pregnancy test and it came out positive and just kind of frightened though 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 happened. What am i going to do now when my going to finish school how am i going to do any of this at 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 young parents and pair. Who are not married to each other that is a bad 50 per sat 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 was. In themselves that was older and they also. Passed. Than kids who come from married couple. More of our kids will be with their married parents and live for their whole childhood with their married parents that also make a huge difference theyll do better in school will be more likely will 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 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 so 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 phones love with them that its lets deal with those people and its just this kind of like these tough things like what really into a lot of kids in poverty. I never thought i would. Never play because i was i am i thought am i standing there i feel so much charity work so Much Community service or everyone at school is like wendys. Isnt she the smart one isnt she one good one from her family is a shiva church girl i never thought this would happen. You dont think from one night being. About 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 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 dont 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 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 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 its because theres this. Intelligence we just dont talk about like relationship and a strategy around what you do as an emotional being. Always been a dad. I would go to him for everything. You know when i got pregnant. And so long he had different views than i did when i told him i was going to keep matthew. Youre going to keep. Im 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. Its like i still cant believe you decided to keep him you could have had a future now youre not going to have anything. And its been still 3 years. And i havent heard from him ive heard it from people one of my teachers actually. When i wasnt 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 for the sake of a future but now shes not going to amount to anything. And hearing from my dad now. And saying youre not going to amount to anything youre not going to have a future anymore because i decided to keep my son. It broke me. As a society have lied to us weve been weve 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 contact. It says 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 and deep 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 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 i was 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 he will finish but what do you mean you cant just type of like i cant do this i am fix tina i can do this i cannot support him i cannot just call work and raise a child. Bearing a 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 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 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. 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 can take away those consequences and you now have very difficult decisions to me. So i have my little brother. And me about 3 to one a. 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. Rushing to get there i get out of school i want 30 am i going to work out too much i get off at school 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 much the shelf and spend time with them. And then i get off work around 9 i want to put them both before you after i put them both. Are working on my homework around 1030 and i usually fall asleep but i dont want to. Israels media a reflection of reality. In the world transformed. Want to make you feel safer. To community. Are you going the wrong way or are you being let. Down. What is true. Watts is great. In the world corrupted you need. To join us in the depths. Of the shallows. So what i would say to a 15 year old is. All of that would have convinced you. That you are lazy that you are and 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 only. I believe that you bring value into other peoples lives and youll bring value to the lot of this child if you choose to hear that its not going to be and we have failed and it is now our job to come alongside and support to enable you to make better choices for. My momma watch matthew the 1st year that i have and i want to tell her. Thank you mom i love you i appreciate you and. She love differently. You are showing her love by watching him. Taking care of me making trad a roof over 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 she told me that i was if. Youre a strong woman. For me to get a message from her saying im proud of you and everything they are complicated everything thats regularly for me was the best pres i could ever get this is what i have been working for him but he keep yours if you get us some. High profile. Theres a group of villagers working in 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 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 erupting. 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 to 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 its too risky some said might fail or take too long we will lose too many lives. We owe it to the ones weve lost and our future children to fix the problem upstream and save one towns crawling to. A drug from a separate water fountain used in taxes well how much. Ok what was different about the water. Coming out of it found. The album out. Of the post to me. The other grew up more real than most. People completely. All that life all for. Based around. You know their care 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 8 housing has to be. People. Have to help those who are in need now and you have to help those. In 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 you 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 so 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 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 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 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 its going to 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 us 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 that didnt know me and i matter i wasnt born i. I am part. 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 my you say to the other human being what ever. Dream youve ever had is still possible. When i was growing up it felt like there were a few kids that were completely off the leash. 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 were trying to get our toes as close to the line as we can without completely stepping over but we werent really convicted either way were 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. 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 were going to stand by you were going to help you get through this day after the power to turn the 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 were going to take you to places that you cant even understand what you do to day is going to play more compound interest that anything else youre playing a game thats bigger than yourself youre playing a game for yourself or your familys name or your kids that dont 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 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 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 theyll say im 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 sure dont ask for help. Thats the wrong message. Nobody makes it alone. Salumi no one we have to Work Together we have to overlap with other organizations we have to be community by the key is allowing hope and we can allow hope we can 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 tools to help their kids in their kids not be in the river thats the movement we want when we 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 theyre not so different after all. As a culture war consumers american politics during this election cycle the economy in a big area state millions of people live at the margins the only constant for them is the insecurity economists debate and eventual recovery basically go they you know but is the reality the change. For the other. Half. Was. 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