A senior this year. There was 8 of us dont live together. There is a 3 bedroom house. There was 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 much my little brother house free and reduced lunch and there was my sophomore year and i was 15. I was on a journey with our kids. 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 dont like that or. And so i go the pregnancy tests and they came out positive then just kind of the mom one told me what any other parent would say to their kid. Just going to be fine. Were 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 this that all 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 of 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 single parent families generally get less education than in themselves. That they also in the past and then kids who come from every couple for the kids will be with their very parents and live for their whole childhood with their married parents. That also can make a huge difference. Theyll do better in school. Theyll be more likely to college, and even though they might compositions magically over the last 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 valuable. Isnt that were still children in a way of our mobile. Its go up and down. And kids are making these very tough decisions and friends of the peer group, and theyre making a lot of decisions around relationships and who their phone with its missing 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 still am a straining to do so much charity work so Much Community service or everyone at school is like isnt she the smart one . Isnt she one good one from her family, isnt she . Of 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 know what . 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 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 fills me is when i see 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 cars and then like literally just take 3 steps back and i think its because theres a new intelligence about like relationships and the strategy as an emotional im always been a daddys girl. I would go to him for everything and going to completely weve been dishonest because what we have said 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 made. 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 unlikely. And a desire to meet a need that day the day i had him, i 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, it will finish. But what do you mean . You cant just type of like i can do the i am fix, tina i can do this. I cannot look 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 get 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 leeds, all kinds of issues because now youre not just a Typical High School kid. Youre responsible for another human being. 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, you know im 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, the 730 i get to school and im racing. Im rushing to get there. I get out of school at 130. 00 and were going to work out and 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 Sisters Health and spend time with then go back, and then i get off work around 9. I go to put them both for you after i put them both working on my homework over 1030 and i give free coffee, but i wanted to hold the world is driven by shaped by the day thinks we dare to ask. Always be polite, never engage with a negative, a good or confrontational. Also dont get into any conversation or start answering questions. Just ask for an attorney to survive and territories. Definitely dont want to go in the jumpsuit on cups. Youre more likely to walk free if youre rich or if youre poor and youve got 2 eyes and ears in one now. So you should be seen in here and a whole lot more than youre saying. If you dont take that advice, easy going to dig yourself a hole. So what i would say to a 15 year old is i apologize that you have convinced me that you are, but you are entitled, but you are incapable. Because i dont believe any of those things and i believe that you have a purpose. I believe that greatness is only believe that you bring value into other peoples lives and youll bring value into the law of this child. If you choose to hear that its not going to do things and we have failed and it is now our job to come along and support. To enable you to make better choices, go my mama, watch the 1st, hear how their thank you mom. I love and love differently. You are showing her love watching him taking care of me, making sure how to look good 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 are working for me that i was a woman for me to get a message saying im proud of you and everything that youre everything that was the best. This is what i have been working for. Im proud of theres a group of villagers are river when someone in the group noticed a baby floating down the street. One of the men rushed into the water, rescued the baby and brought it to sure. But before he could recover, a number of babies were trying floating downstream. For a 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 ranging 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 the village. 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 in eliminating 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 away to the ones weve lost and our future children to fix the problem upstream and save one else calling and to have a drink from a separate water fountain, houston, texas. Well, how much ok, but whats different about the water coming out of it found a mountain that wasnt supposed to go up. I realize most people feel completely all that life plaistow around when you 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 care with out thing that has to be, but has to be what you have to help those who are in need now. And you have to help. Those might be huge. And in order to do both, you have to not only work downstream yesterday, the circumstances that got us where we are are unique. And so our approach to every person, every family and poverty, needs to be is unique as that person and 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 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 income. What they want is to provide everyone an opportunity to get ahead on their own. We believe in equality of opportunity. Equality 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 are 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 person to feel we all are the same when it comes to what our basic needs are, 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 devalue 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, like there were a few kids that were completely off. 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 opposed to the one 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 to see 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, were going to help you get through this. They have the power to turn this ship and make good decisions. After that, one of the bigger you have to 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 today 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. You got to ask for help in poverty shoot, 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, but we cant allow hope. We cant communicate. We cant 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. 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. Financialization has its limits, the accounting tricks of stock buybacks and money printing have their limits and in saudi arabia, we see a brilliant example of what happens when a country decides to go into financialization, instead of lets say, diversifying into actual productive economic activity. Is your media a reflection of reality in a world transformed what will make you feel safe from tyson Nation Community . Are you going the right way or are you being led . So direct. 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. Just sloppy and close to the head. My pappy and always will pocket board if he does not get enough for me. It is getting close to live near her at the moment. Hes got a fair he come with us from humble the job center of all only when nobody will always be polite, never engage with a negative rated or confrontational. Dont get into any conversation or start answering questions. Just ask for an attorney to survive and tear a geisha. Definitely dont want to show youre more likely to walk free if youre rich or if youre poor. You got 2 eyes, 2 ears and one now. So you should be seen here and a whole lot more than youre saying if you dont take that advice, easy going to do it yourself. Because you know, that came down from his agrees to drop possibly unpopular security bill to ban the filming of Police Following weeks of nationwide protests. In a landmark case in australia, authorities to seize a child from parents who were soused to consent to sex change treatment. We put the issue up to debates only are the parents being bullied, but their rights are literally being stripped away from them. Would not change 3 to suit somebody 15 or 16, making it in russia