At age 23, she has filed for divorce from her second husband two years after marrying him, and she now lives in a solitary mobile home in the middle of nowhere, perhaps with roommates who may or may not care for her and her child. Flakey, flakey, flakey, flakey, flakey, flakey, flakey, flakey, flakey, flakey, flakey, flakey, flakey, flakey, flakey, flakey, flakey, flakey, flakey, flakey, flakey, flakey, flakey, flakey, flakey, flakey, flakey, flakey, flakey, flakey, flakey, flakey, flakey, flakey, flakey, flakey, flakey, flakey, flakey, flakey, flakey, flakey, flakey, flakey, flakey, flakey, flakey, flakey, flakey, flakey, flakey, flakey, flakey, flakey, flakey, flakey, flakey, flakey, flakey, flakey, flakey, flakey, flakey, flakey, flakey, flakey, flakey. Please, please, please, encourage all young persons you know to get all the education they need to live prosperous lives as early in life as possible, and seriously to consider postponing sexual gratification until after completing college and commencing career. After learning just how hard those latter two goals are, and understanding how one mistake in the sexual arena can send one's life permanently careening out of control, they might just understand the importance of all approaches to sound birth control ranging from sobriety first and foremost to abstinence to dual-barrier methods to pharmaceuticals to abortions as a last resort. As I told a young person recently about entering college: "First, stay sober. Second, don't get pregnant. Everything else is a matter of detail." Single Moms and Welfare Woes: A Higher-Education Dilemma (Edited by Luke Setzer on 11/11, 5:08pm)
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