Margery, I never thought we’d see eye to eye, but- Sunday, Jun 22 2008

Plenty lost, little gained with out-of-wedlock motherhood

By Margery Eagan  |   Sunday, June 22, 2008  |  http://www.bostonherald.com  |  Columnists

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Mothers Against Drunk Driving has managed to completely reverse a nation’s attitude about drinking and driving, which used to be a joke, something to brag about, even cool. Today? We think it’s horrible, shameful, cruel, a selfish who-gives-a-damn.

What we need around here is a MADD-style reversal in attitude about unwed mothers and the who-gives-a-damn boys/men who bear zero responsibility for the life they made. Here are some possibilities: Mothers Against Deadbeat Dads. Or Mothers Against Doomed Deliveries. Or Mothers Against Delusional Daughters dreaming of a baby who will love them unconditionally – but they’ve got the unconditional backwards: It’s the mother who’s supposed to love unconditionally. Babies unconditionally need.  Full Article

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Oh Gloucester. Friday, Jun 20 2008

This article about a spike in teen pregnancies in Gloucester, MA is very troubling.

It says that the girls wanted to get pregnant and planned to raise their babies together.  It also mentions how there wasn’t sex education or contraception made available to them, coupled with a cut in after-school and other programs. Ad to that a very Catholic backdrop and a bad economy and you have a recipe for disaster. I don’t claim to know what the answer is, but- surely we could start with education and access to information. Ugh.

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