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women should also be accountable
i understand that the dad-missing from the family is a tragic-and how much they are needed by the family.
i think some of Bill's comments should be directed to the women

to make better choices !! WHY DO THEY WANT TO RAISE CHILDREN WITHOUT FATHERS???? WHY ARE THEY NOT BEING TAUGHT BIRTH CONTROL--- AND BETTER CHOICES FOR THEIR LIVES SO THEY CAN BE BETTER PARENTS AND B ETTER CITIZENS. THERE IS NOTHING ** COOL*** ABOUT THE LIFE STYLE OF DRUGS, MUSIC AND SEX CULTURE !! -- MY QUESTION IS WHY DO THE WOMEN ALLOW THIS TO CONTINUE GENERATION TO GENERATION------WHY CAN'T THEY WAKE UP---AND QUIT TEACHING THESE FAMILY VALUES(?) TO THEIR CHILDREN******COME ON PEOPLE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Asked by RAM 11 months, 3 weeks ago
Communities: Be Healthy, Stop Violence, Get a Job, General, Be a Parent/Caregiver, Get an Education/Skills
Topics: WOMENS, CULTURE, DISCIPLINE, AND FAMILY VALUES NEED TO CHANGE

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MrEscobar says:
Hello Ram,

I agree with some of your comments. Both women and men need to be responsible. After all, it takes two people to make a baby; a woman and a man.

Girls need to be taught to respect their bodies and to cherish what they can offer to any relationship. On that same token, boys need to be taught to respect women and to care for them.

A lot of what I see today is irresponsible young people. They (girls and boys) don't see that their actions have consequences. Part of educating our youth is sharing the concept of consequences.

One of the reasons why I think Bill Cosby addresses young men is because I think he sees them having the most impact for this generation. Why? Because, the child is already born to a single parent family. And the young man can make an immediate difference by being responsible and learning to be a father.

In other words, the horse is already out of the barn so to speak. What can we do to make an impact for this generation?

However, like I said, I agree with you that both women and men need to be responsible.


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Answered 11 months, 3 weeks ago

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shavonte1 says:
I understand your comments completly. I was a teenage single mother. I had my son at age 18. I had recently graduated from high school and had no idea how to provide for my child. Because of family support I have learned a great deal over the past ten years. I am currently working on my masters degree and applying to law school next year. Teenage mothers can achieve greatness.

Now, my sons father is not an active member of his life. Many of my high school friends had babies around the same time I did and almost none of the fathers participate. I believe that women and teenage girls have to take more control over their lives. Yes, so do young men. I too am concerned about the plight of the father. I am teaching my neices to value themselves. Often times when we value and love our girls they wont need validation from another. Women must take responsbility for their lives. Its about being proactive about our lives. Not only are we raising children alone but we are suffering from HIV at large numbers. Sometime must change and soon.

I started a group last year that acts as a support for single parents/mothers who are working towards higher education. I have found that young ladies start to make better choices as they become educated. I work as a community college advisor and I see young women pushing baby strollers around campus on a daily basis. I also talk with these young women about their future. Many of them dont realize that they have a future. They dont love themselves or believe in themselves. It is frightening to watch. What can we as a society do to make a change? Not just a change with young ladies but with the young men as well??

I applaud Mr.Cosby for his efforts.


Source: www.educatesinglemoms.com
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LuvMyPeople says:
We need to understand why our beautiful young women are having unprotected sex. They seem embarassed to go to free clinics to get on the pill or to insist that their partners use condoms. HIV/AIDS is being ignored in our community, even though our young women are catching it in droves. And once again, the community supports having children out of wedlock. I remember back in the day, you couldn't hang out with a girl who got in trouble. Everybody can make a mistake, but these aren't mistakes anymore. Like my aunt says. "If you failed to plan, then you planned to fail". Get your pills, get your condoms! Stay in control of your life.


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Strong1 says:
I had a son at age 16. I would like to say that I didn't plan to get pregnant yes I was nieve at that time to think that I could start to have sex at age 15 and not get pregnant, but it happened. At such a young age you really don't think to plan until after you've done something. I wouldn't say it was a mistake I don't think anyone having a child is a mistake I would consider it more as a time to learn. You learn from things that has happened to others as well as from consequences you have to go through. So keeping someone away from the girls who has messed up won't help either. Then you don't have anyone learning from anyone elses mistakes or seeing the obstacles and trials one have to live up to with being a single parent. If I would have known someone who actually had a child at such a young age as me I probably wouldn't have thought about having sex in the first place.

I feel that we have grandparents who decide that their children are too young to take care of the child. So they feel they have to do so. That is not the case the girl should be responsible to take care of her own child. If not you have a continuous situation where the one who had the child hasn't learned from having a baby because they're not dealing with the responsibilities of having a child in the first place. This is when you see a woman having multiple kids and not taking care of the ones they already have.

Plus having a child is just like my momma always told me "Mothers Baby and a Daddy's Maybe" so that is why Bill Cosby probably wrote what he wrote. Most men decide not to be in their childrens life, so if we try to help the men become more responsible and not put it all on the women all the time to become responsible then we can start to plan for better success rates in our community.

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Strong1 says:
I wanted to also add that maybe if we stop thinking so negative about young people who have kids and start thinking positive(not saying promote teenage pregnancy) it can really help a lot of single parents out in the world. It is not the end of the world, but everyone around tries to make it seem like it is and it discourages a lot of young single parents. When in actuality it is hard to do but it is not impossible to become successful and continue to thrive for a good life. Because I am planning on showing the way once I make it and hope to help and encourage others in the process.


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sayjuan2006 says:
Enter your answer here.When my oldest sister became pregnant she had to attend a school for girls who were pregnant. One of her best friends parents would not let her come over anymore, and that was hard on my sister her other best friend came to the baby shower and stayed her friend. That was almost 30yrs ago, now fast forward to today and I feel if we still kept teen age moms out the same school as the other kids they would know that hey this is really not the route. Young people really need to see the consequences of their actions, everything can be easily fixed is the thouth. This is the same idea with HIV/AIDS I think that is the main reason why so many people aree still getting the disease, they really do not see any consequence in contracting it. The message has gone from not cathcing it to you can live a long life on the drugs. The thing is no one showing what that life will entail with the numerous drugs they will need to maitain a "heatlhy" life. Magic looks good because Magic has money, he can get better health care for himself so I don't want to hear him say he takes the same drugs as anyone else. There are no consequences for the young ladies who get pregnant, so many young ladies and there friends get pregnant at the same time so they kids can be friends, you have to change this whole mentality to efffect a change. I am no saying you cannot do anything when you have a child, I am a firm beleiver that if you want to continue school after you have a child then strap that baby to your back and go, just know it will be harder and no there no parties and cute dresses because you have pampers to buy. I was 30 when I had my one and only child, I was workin in a great job and his father is in his life. No we are not married, but I can tell I wish we were and then I am glad we are not. But it does not mean that he is free of his obligations, no not at all. Men say to us let me be the man and stop trying to take on my responsibilities and the whole nine, well ok, be the man. Step up to you responsibilites, why should I have to take you to court to do something you should automatically be doing. Why can't you just come to the house and just do what you have to do. And for all of you men who say you do not want to date women who have more than one or two kids, you need to go to the third man and ask him why he left her. She did not make that child by herself and for you to put yourself above her just saved her from being with the next guy to leave her. No one sets out to have kids by themselves, no woman sets out to have more than one kids by themselves so men get off of your high horses and "man up". When it was slavey time, no one knew for the most part if it was they kids or masters kids but you know what that man manned up and took care of his responsibility. My own father was not my biological father. Nor were my sisters his, here you have a true definition of a man. This man loved my mother so much that even after they got divorced whenever she needed him he would drop what he was doing and take a bus to help her. Why? because he was a man. He told my sisters father he as needed, that he had us, and the man that left my mom when she pregnant with me for a pack of cigarettes was not an issue. I would never had known this man was not father had the bio came back into picture and the thing is, he could have stayed gone. So yeah, men get over yourselves and man up and take care of you responsibilites. Women, you need to do the same thing, this whole thing of putting out business in the court system needs to stop, you are only hurting yourself in the long run. See until they actually track him down you still have to take care of the child and if they never track him down then what. Stop putting your lives into a system that is only damaging you and image in more ways than you could ever know.........

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sayjuan2006 says:
Enter your answer here.Sorry I made a few grammatical errors when I was writing and I hit submit before I proof read what I wrote, you should still be able to get the gist of what I am saying...

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