According to the Newsweek article about this (http://www.newsweek.com/id/142360), the Superintendent "said the girls are generally 'girls who lack self-esteem and have a lack of love in their life.'" He no doubt is bringing his own presuppositions and prejudices to the discussion, but he is also in a better position than we to know true details of the girls' lives. On the whole I agree in principle that these girls probably don't know what they are letting themselves in for. But on the other hand that is probably true of every new mother at any age, regardless of what they think they know. I would say, however, that the younger you are the more true it is, and that is not condescension. It is an observable fact of life.
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Date: 2008-06-20 06:50 pm (UTC)End of pontification.