A lot of. The economy head and everything my parents both they both had lost their jobs it was kind of hard for us to even like. My life even though im still free and reduced lunch now and always have my little brother house free and reduced lunch and there was. My sophomore year and i was 15. I was on a journey with. And coming back. From there i just started noticing that i was feeling different all the sudden like youre either believe or youre pregnant and i was like i dont think im bullying big like i had all the time like well ive watched a pregnancy test and i was like. I just kind of like that or and so i go the pregnancy test and they came out positive been just kind. Though my mom told me what any other parent would say to their kid just. Going to be. By going to get through this no matter what happened. What am i going to do how am i going to finish school how am i going to do any of us that are. 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 out 50 percent of the births of 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 single parent families generally get less education than. In themselves that was older they also. Passed. Than kids who come from every couple. Of other kids with their merry parents and lived for their whole childhood with their married parents that also could make a huge difference theyll do better in school will be more likely will college and even though they might opposition magically over the last 3 or 4 decades we are in still kind of 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 happens is though many kids are make. In these very tough decisions around friends and peer groups theyre making a lot of decisions around relationships and who theyre both with intimacy with those people and its 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 feel as. I do so much charity work so Much Community service or everyone at school is like. Isnt she a smart one and she would get one from her family is a shave a 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 the ones here keep going with 5. And a half. And no one you see the picture of blue your whole world just. Turned upside down. And 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 month 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 can help you raise that child what kills me is when i see a kid. All the academics are rocking. All lazy finally. Feeling where they put all their hard work in their academics and then they get pregnant with their part and then like literally just take 3 steps back and i think its because theres a. New intelligence. 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. Youre going to. Completely. Everyone. Would. Have been dishonest. It 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 cons. 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 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 moner of a way to another human being who is in no way committed to and his whose actions are really out of selfishness unlikely and a desire to meet a need that day. In the day i had 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 even get. 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 right. Like i care and change the diaper here wolf and what do you mean you can just type of like i can do the i am fix tina i can do this i cannot the part for him i cannot just call work and raise a child. Tearing 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 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 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 730 i get to school and im racing im rushing to get there i get out of school at 130 am i going to work at 2 i get off or i just. Play with matthew for the 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 sister and spend time with ben and then i get off before. I go to put them both before you after i put them both. Are working on my homework over 1030 and i usually fall asleep but i want to. It was sort of amazing country with so many friends in russia and im very excited to be here. I love that idea i think i can do that. Every night and make a lot of money with. Millions and hundreds of me. He has had. A great wall and nobody builds a lot better than me believe me and ill build a very inexpensive like a great great wall. And just in case youre worried about whos going to pay for it mexico will pay for. It well see what happens who knows i always say who knows what well see on the field it will be successful. Elections only weeks away the trying to diminish ration continues its ancient mania against cuba venezuela and iran has never explained how missing dance is the National Interest also no matter whos in the white house the Foreign Policy wall is determined to continue to avenge its defeat in syria. There are no dearth of birds or has. More power for the few good but so. Far good. Service is that people. Just should be the mothership is. The same or im going to compete. With them in a few fish and oh my gosh. They are. God since we. Need. To move dont hate. This kid who want to. Give. Money. To the kind of system definition in. Minnesota in the news. So. Is. All of. That. That you are lazy. That you are still because i dont believe any of those things. That you. Believe that greatness is only. Believe that you bring value into other peoples lives into the law if you choose to but its not going to be easy and lives have failed and it is now. Choices go. My mama watch. How theyre. Different. She told me for the 1st time i know i never tell you this often but i. Said. This is what i have. Theres a group of villagers working in the fields by 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 sloth 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 in which one group argued that every possible hand was needed downstream to help rescue the babies they didnt have everyones 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 its too risky some said might fail or take too long. To lose too many lives. Though it. The onesies one hand are secret children to fix the problems upstream sees one calling to. Advance from a separate water fountains and say whats on a lot lower. Case but was different about the water. Coming out of that found. In comparison. To the mountain that i wasnt supposed to. Go up i realize most. People feel completely. All that life. Plaistow around them. When each of 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 right you know provide people with assistance with child 8 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 family and poverty needs to be is unique as that person and their 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 in 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 bob theres 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 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 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 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. 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 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. When i was growing up. Belt 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 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 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 were going to stand by you were 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 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 when 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 Issues 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 is the key is allowing hope that we can allow hope we can communicate we can allow worth until theres relationship if we can spark a movement 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 opinion. We can really find some unique treasures in people who are different from lives and find out that theyre not so different after all. Always be polite never engage with baited or confrontational. Dont get into any conversation or start answering questions just. Surviving. Definitely dont want to. Jump. Youre more likely to walk free if youre rich. Youve got 2 eyes 2 ears and one mouth. So you should be seen in here and a whole lot more in your sand if you dont take that advice easy going to dig yourself. A humanitarian items. Have been trying to transfer money for the code 19. Weve been trying to transfer money. The United States restrictions prevents us from even transferring money. So its basically. That the us is. Simply find. Colleagues in. The future. Look forward to continuing. In the future. It is indeed. John both declare martial law as the decades territorial conflict between them flares up. On the review of the week. For the United Nations russias new code block scene for free and advanced stage 3 trials of a vaccine under way in russia one of our correspondents is among the 1st here to get the job. This morning and i got a call from the cleaning and i am an ideal candidate here luke this is your vaccine theres not much in there looks like a couple of drops ok im ready