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what did anyone make of it?
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I felt sorry for both of them but more so for the girl who had been brought up in care and also had the alcoholic mother. I dont think i could cope with what she had been through and she seemed to be bringing up her children really well. I agree that to get pregnant a 2nd time was stupid but she did get a job at the end and did want to make a better life for her and her children and i really admired her for that.
No don�t think it is repeated. I don�t think it concentrated really on how hard it is, I think they should have drilled it into teenagers heads more how these girls had no money but it showed them going out and partying. Both were smokers too and I they moan about not having money. The amount she bought her kids for xmas though was more than any normal kid would have.
when they stated they had , per week �30 left to spend on themselves, plus �20 for the kids - after food & rent, i kinda lost my sympathy im afraid. this is often more than i have left a week for myself after bills and food. my house badly needs decorating, is damp, no carpet in hall and stairs. i work full time and live alone and thats what it costs to live. sometimes i feel sorry for myself too - but i have to remind myself what i do have. and mostly i am proud of what ive managed to do alone.
mandimoo, I can understand your annoyance at their complaining
I cant see why benefits should pay for the social life of a claimer. if they want to smoke or go out drinking they should earn that money themselves or at the very least stop complaning that their benefits are too low and that they are struggling.
I cant see why benefits should pay for the social life of a claimer. if they want to smoke or go out drinking they should earn that money themselves or at the very least stop complaning that their benefits are too low and that they are struggling.
Mandimoo I felt exactly the same, I work full time and don�t have enough money for myself a lot of the time as I live by myself and have a mortgage, bills, no benefits etc. Then it�s always my mates with no job that moan about money that are in the pub every night or buying pointless things that they don�t need.
I agree as I'm like a lot of you working with a mortgage and in a o-paying job and virtually noithing left at then end of the month - and often going into an overdraft. What I found unbelievable was that they could get a loan off the social - that was the only way the girl had money to go out clubbing. She had taken a loan out for �400 the year before so probably used money from something like that to get christmas presents.
I don't agree with the "they've brought it on themselves" totally. As accidents will always happen and the only contraception that is foolproof is abstinence. i think they should do more to promote girls into realising that just cause you date a guy doesn't give him the right to go all the way - not t the age that kds these age are getting way too serious. when I was a teenager, it was the minority who got pregnant at a young age, and they usually already had a name for themselves.
My friend was aged 15 declared herelf homeless as her parents kicked her out - as they were both alcoholics and her dad knocked her aout and when she went to housing - she was told by the official running it - "go and gt pregnanant an you'll get a ouse right away"
I don't agree with the "they've brought it on themselves" totally. As accidents will always happen and the only contraception that is foolproof is abstinence. i think they should do more to promote girls into realising that just cause you date a guy doesn't give him the right to go all the way - not t the age that kds these age are getting way too serious. when I was a teenager, it was the minority who got pregnant at a young age, and they usually already had a name for themselves.
My friend was aged 15 declared herelf homeless as her parents kicked her out - as they were both alcoholics and her dad knocked her aout and when she went to housing - she was told by the official running it - "go and gt pregnanant an you'll get a ouse right away"