Well, no wonder I'm tired

[veronica_rich]

A girl who was in my grade in school - who dropped out when she got pregnant at 16 - just became a grandmother.

She's a year older than me.

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[mamazano.livejournal.com]

I was 29 when my first was born, having waited to finish college, find a job and obtain health insurance (he was still unplanned though not unwanted). I lived in a college town and it was quite the norm for parents to be in their 30's before having their first child.

I remarried at age 40 and got a wonderful wedding present in the form of my youngest (I had her at age 41).

Where I live now, (this backwoods backwater), girls start popping them out at age 17 and it is not uncommon to see a 20 year old with several children. Their moms were the same age when they had babies, so on and so forth.

I remember taking my youngest to pre-school and one of her little friends asking me if I was her grandmother. No wonder, his grandma was younger than me.

My middle child worked at the research center where I do this past summer, to save up for college. One of the locals, who work on the field crew, asked me her age. I said 18. They said, I kid you not, "And she ain't got no babies? Girl her age ought t' be able to get a man."

Yes, it will take more than sex ed in schools to curb teen pregnancy, at least in this Florida backwater.