MOO only, and I know some may disagree but I think a lot of these very young women having kids would have opted for abortion if it were easier to obtain. They didn't plan on the pregnancy, they are single with very little family support and may have been in denial for a large part of the pregnancy. By the time they give birth, they haven't bonded with the idea of a baby let alone an actual baby. There is no maternal bond, thats where a lot of these cases start. With clinics being shut down, lack of funding and our choice at risk now more than ever, so many unwanted babies are being born. She probably never even got proper sex education or birth control info to begin with because religious people think if you don't talk about it, it won't happen. THIS is the reault of no sex education, no birth control education and a lack of choises for girls like her.
Yes, absolutely this. And it doesn’t necessarily contradict the following post about “baby daddies” culture etc either. I think some young women find themselves pregnant and it’s a very vulnerable experience so they adapt as best they can in the circumstances. They’re criticised for abortions and they’re criticised for keeping babies then being terrible at parenting.
Re baby daddy culture I see just as much controlling behaviour from the baby daddies as I do the mothers. It’s all power play, validation and control. For some men it’s a means of branding their women, controlling women and demonstrating virility, and for some women it’s about fighting for status in a culture where the baseline position is that you’re worthless. It’s all ugly.
That said, women have always been oppressed and controlled by reproductive status and means so it’s just the modern version of the oldest tale in the book. Toxic expectations for women and toxic expectations for men. I’ll get off my feminist soapbox now