Today I want to talk about a subject that really gets to me, teen mom stereotypes. As a teen mother I receive a lot of judgement, good and bad. What comes to mind when most people think of a teen mom is: irresponsible, unfit parent, high school dropout ect.. As I scroll through Facebook or Instagram I see many things like this:
Posts, ecards, and pages like these really get to my nerves. Being a teen mom does not make us a bad or unfit mother, it does not mean that we won't graduate high school or go to college, it does not mean that we will not be successful and it most certainly does not mean that our children will be worse off than any other child. Being a teen mother means balancing your new life, adapting to the changes of motherhood, making sacrifices, pushing yourself to be better for your child, and maturing faster. The statistics are not in our favor, more than half of teen mothers never graduate and less than two percent earn their college degree by the age of thirty, but we are not a statistic. I had Ian the first week of my senior year and managed to graduate a semester early as an honor roll student. I start college this fall and I'm majoring in nursing. If anything Ian has motivated me to be a better, more dedicated person than I was before. Teen moms deserve a lot more credit and positive reinforcement than we receive. There is no logical reason for all of the hate, judgement, and negative criticism. Moms, single moms, and teen moms are all superheroes
Today I want to talk about a subject that really gets to me, teen mom stereotypes. As a teen mother I receive a lot of judgement, good and bad. What comes to mind when most people think of a teen mom is: irresponsible, unfit parent, high school dropout ect.. As I scroll through Facebook or Instagram I see many things like this:
Posts, ecards, and pages like these really get to my nerves. Being a teen mom does not make us a bad or unfit mother, it does not mean that we won't graduate high school or go to college, it does not mean that we will not be successful and it most certainly does not mean that our children will be worse off than any other child. Being a teen mother means balancing your new life, adapting to the changes of motherhood, making sacrifices, pushing yourself to be better for your child, and maturing faster. The statistics are not in our favor, more than half of teen mothers never graduate and less than two percent earn their college degree by the age of thirty, but we are not a statistic. I had Ian the first week of my senior year and managed to graduate a semester early as an honor roll student. I start college this fall and I'm majoring in nursing. If anything Ian has motivated me to be a better, more dedicated person than I was before. Teen moms deserve a lot more credit and positive reinforcement than we receive. There is no logical reason for all of the hate, judgement, and negative criticism. Moms, single moms, and teen moms are all superheroes
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