In the state of Michigan if you get pregnant and dont have any money the list goes on and on with the charities our taxes pay for. Health insurance that covers everything without a dime to pay 4 a copayment. Food stamps to pay for all the food. Wic to pay 4 all the formula. Section 8 will pay your rent. Hud will buy you a brand new home. The state will pay 4 a new car. They will also pay $1200 to fix a car. They will pay 4 your gas. They will buy you clothes. They will give you carseats. The list goes on and on and on. How will they get people and teens especially 2 stop having kids if you live better once you have them. I work my butt off 40+ hours a week and my husband goes to college full time so we can have a good life. The girl I work with has 2 kids at 18 walks around on a cell phone all day. In the city I live in we have more teen pregnany then any other city in MI and people wonder why! Michigan has one of the highest unemployment rates. Why not make it just a little tougher?
2006-07-23 06:26:03 · 12 answers · asked by Zya 2 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Adolescent
the reason that they are making it so easy to be pregnant is because they would rather the teen who got pregnant to go through the pregnancy, keep it or eventually adopt out. michigan is a very very hard state to get an abortion in due to the lack of OB/GYN's that specialise in abortions. sometimes the nearest is a few hours away. since it's not legal to make abortions illegal, the government tries their hardest to make it near impossible. for instance, it's not possible for women on foreign army bases to get an abortion at the base hospital because the governemnt won't pay for it...even if the girl was raped. so, what MI is doing, is to make the teen do anything to not get an abortion. the government would rather pay for the baby than abort it. now, before people start attacking me for this, let me just say, i totally value any opinion for not wanting to abort a child. i personally, wouldn't, but i think there should be the option.
2006-07-23 06:50:10 · answer #1 · answered by Ducky241 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I was a teen mom but I also agree with you. They should take every one of those options away. They should teach that if you have a baby, you better be able to support it or there is a mandatory adoption. I had my first child at 18 and my second at 19. Their father and I both work and have never received welfare. We pay our bills. Our car is messed up right now so we're paying for a ride to work everyday until it gets fixed. Anyways, if they would just take away all the benefits, we would have either a lower pregnancy rate or a lower unemployment rate.
2006-07-23 15:03:01 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Children are going to be born everyday whether the government takes care of them or not. I feel your aggravation because my husband and I have 2 kids,full-time jobs,1,000 per month rent, and still can't even save enough money to get new cell phones to replace the broke ones that we have.But you know what those people are victims of a system that was designed to make them productive individuals and the system has been abused so much that now it enables them to do absolutely nothing or just enough to keep getting there benefits.What people like you and I can do is keep being positive and doing the right thing to be better people for ourselves and our families so that one day if we do need the help we already have the will-power and then know-how to use it and leave it for the next person.
2006-07-23 14:05:14 · answer #3 · answered by kiss4virgo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, way too easy. The support system is a big reason why overeating else costs so much. When you are younger and need to be supported by your parent or parents you are not concerned grown-up. So why should you be when the tax payers and the government supports you. I get tired of struggling through to barely have enough money for groceries and gas to get back and forth to work everyday. Just so people can pop out kids and live on others hard work. If you need help that one thing but milking it out for everything that you "think" is owed to you, that's shameful. Stand up for yourself and make better choices.
2006-07-23 13:49:56 · answer #4 · answered by rmurf6987 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the state of michigan isn't alone with all of the handouts. it isn't the handouts/assistance that's bad, although some of the qualifications for staying on need to be modified, i.e no additional subsidy for additional kids, employed by the time the youngest starts school and many others. unfortunately, it seems far too easy to jump on public assistance and to stay there for years or generations sometimes.
its a slap in the face for those that work, pay taxes, need the service of public assistance but can't get it! our politicians go to one extreme or the other, but they never seem to truly work on behalf of the working class that doesn't quite earn enough to take care of all of their needs, but earn too much to qualify for public assistance. its ridiculous. for many of the young girls on public assistance, its the most money they see at one time, its consistent, everything is covered and they don't have to do anything except answer a few questions, stand in line, and shop. many times the young mother has a boyfriend in the picture at those $ times, the kids look like raggamuffins while her hair and nails are done, and she's wearing clothing that i can't afford. not all young mothers and others on public assistance fit this mold, but public assistance isn't geared toward weaning....its a crutch. removal from the programs is a decision one has to make for him/herself.
its truly a shame that EVERYBODY that needs assistance can't get it.
2006-07-23 14:08:40 · answer #5 · answered by loving 40+ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We have become a nation of enablers. Yes it not fair we work our buts off. I have a single mother I work with and I have to give her credit she is not on any kind of assistance at all. She is very proud she is doing it on her own. She even owns her own house that she is paying for herself. The problem also is the parents not educating the kids about sex. Its a dirty word and then when it happens oh no not my baby how didi this happen. I live in Georgia so I understand.
2006-07-23 13:35:12 · answer #6 · answered by bugbabe45 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because some people cant take care of themeselves and a baby because of the cost of living. when u consider that u have to watch the baby and then work 40+ ... where is the time to spend with ur child. now dont get me wrong some people work da system and take advangtage of it. some people really do need the help. not every one is just abusing the help.
2006-07-23 13:41:47 · answer #7 · answered by Nikki p 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would be cruel. Just because you know you'll get everything you need doesn't mean it's any...I don't know. I guess it IS better, but I don't think you'd be any more careless just because of it. And they want children to grow up getting what they need. Not to mention the parents have it tough.
2006-07-23 13:31:31 · answer #8 · answered by Allison 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, first off, I don't think they will just give a teenager any of the "benefits" being that they are under 18. It's also really tough to get alot of that stuff. You have to jump through alot of hoops to get to any of it.
2006-07-23 13:36:17 · answer #9 · answered by guineasomelove 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree! they need to make it a little bit tougher for them
2006-07-23 13:34:13 · answer #10 · answered by me who? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋