some of us single mothers cant keep a job because daycare is too much and our families wont help us. our families disown us because we got pregnant at a young age... i have a 2 year old son that i love dearly and his father wont step up... i have no choice but to live on state aid.. ive tried going to school and to keep a full-time job....but its hard with noone there to help me with my son... i have had a man in my life to help me out with my son but he left.. try walking in our shoes this day in age and see if you can make it.. without a man or without a degree at least i have my high school diploma..

It's not that we chose to have children so young, it just happened. I was in a GREAT relationship when we found out that we were pregnant. We weren't preventing it but we werent trying at the same time. He left me for a 17 year old while I was pregnant...things happen, that's why!

What's the problem with not if your children are healthy and well cared-for? Does it personally offend you in some way?

However, a higher proportion of children in poverty come from single parent homes (Dowd 1997: 20). In 2003 also, the Census Bureau reported 42.3% of children who are being raised by single mothers were below poverty (http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty/histpov/hstpov10.html). In addition, children are the fastest growing segment of those in poverty. When considering this with the fact that half of poor children in the United States live in single parent families, one can see that poverty combined with single parenthood is a major issue facing the youth of America (Dowd 1997: 19-20).

In a consumer society like the United States, it is becoming more and more important to have a second income for all households (Kinnear 1999: 17). This has particularly harsh repercussions for the single parent family which cannot gain a second income. It comes as no surprise that single parent families have less income than two parent families. Still, it may come as a surprise that the single parent family makes less than one-third as much as the two parent family (McLanahan and Sandefur 1994: 79-81), and the poverty rate for single parent homes is 6 times that of two parent homes (Renwick 1998: 3).
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/365483/poverty_and_the_single_parent.html?cat=9

Midwifes and health visitors i have spoken to and also career advisers have said that people who do have children younger seem to go further and achieve what they want in life( i dont know if this is true but to me personally it makes sence as im out to prove people they have the wrong impression of all 'young mums')

"no matter what anyone says you should be proud of your decisions'
This is a nice example of wrong thinking.
On this logic the murderer should be proud of making that decision to murder.
Attitudes like this do little for anyone and simply feed into society's obsession with everyone deserving to act selfishly.

One reason single moms get blamed and the men don't is that many of these women either got pregnant on purpose or were not using birth control, which is the same thing, actually. That means they are responsible for bring children into the world out of wedlock.

Have you ever heard the saying it takes two ? I am sorry but putting ALL the blame on the single Mum is absolutely ridiculous! Maybe the girl cannot take birth control pills for whatever reason. What happened to Durex which not only protects against pregnancy but also diseases. If a child is brought into the world 'out of wedlock' then the responsibility is that of BOTH parties - not just the mum

Only the woman can decide to bring a child into the world or not.

I am pregnant with my first child at 21 I will be 22 when the child is due. It all depends on how mature the mother is, and a lot of father's just run away because they are immature or don't want to accept responsibility for their actions..