Why are unfit parents the first to get pregnant?

Why are all the crackheads, teenagers, alcoholics, high school drop outs, slackers, bums, violent people, convicts and generally bad people the ones who can conceive a baby so easily? Why is it that the really good people who would be wonderful parents often have trouble conceiving a baby? It's just not fair.

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    anadude - 22-25 years old - male

    Posted by anadude Jul 30th, 2009 at 8:00PM

    Because the same traits that make people bad parents are also the same traits that would land someone pregnant while under prepared. Short-sightedness, selfishness, immaturity, lack of responsibility or planning and general ignorance. Plus a willful beliefs that they are the exception to anything bad or unplanned happening to them....and then it happens to them. Anyone who is the opposite of this, is better prepared to becoming a parent, but they are also smart enough not to end up becoming one accidentally.

    But the second half of your question is too generalized. There are plenty of unfit people who can't conceive either. But you never hear about them, because they just don't care and we generally ignore idiot people like them anyways. And there are plenty of good wonderful people who CAN conceive. But you don't hear about them because they happily make their families without anyone else's help. There's all kinds of people in both situations. And of course, sometimes it just comes down to luck of the draw. Life is an unfair lottery in some ways. We don't all get everything we want. But if we're willing to work for it, we can pretty much earn most of the things we weren't given. Like adopting kids or fertility treatments when you can't conceive.

    And I sometimes wonder if some of those wonderful parents who couldn't have kids right away, if they became far better parents in that time, prepared better and thought it through more than if they'd gotten their kids right away. It makes you think don't it? would they have been so perfect of parents if they hadn't had to wait and prepare longer?

    And then there's some who want to be parents, but when they finally become parents you slowly realise they aren't as good at BEING parents as they were at getting ready to be parents. And on the flip side, there's plenty who seem like they'll make bad parents, but once it finally happens, they somehow pull through and become amazing parents with wonderful well-adjusted kids. And all parents will make some mistakes. It's just a hard thing to judge, parenting is a very complicated and varied job I think.

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18 Answers to "Why are unfit parents the first to get pregnant?"

  1. freshfrika - 16-17 years old - female

    Posted by freshfrika Jul 31st, 2009 at 8:09AM

    Life isn't fair.

    But, i feel your pain.

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  2. theonewhoflys - 31-35 years old - male

    Posted by theonewhoflys Jul 30th, 2009 at 1:54AM

    stupidty and free money in thier eyes. The simple fact that the unfit have more children than the avgerage hosehold is due to
    DHS giving them money to sit on thier *** instead of getting these people out af poverty and wellfare and a job they are a drain on the economy and civial services that can't keep up with the demand with out taxing the rest of us

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  3. axeman66 - 41-45 years old - male

    Posted by axeman66 Jul 29th, 2009 at 11:54PM

    they were raised by bad parents and don't know any better.

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  4. underconstruction - 41-45 years old - female

    Posted by underconstruction Jul 29th, 2009 at 11:52PM

    I have always wondered about that, too.

    I do not have a logical answer.

    I can only say life isn´t fair.

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  5. XxVCowxX - 26-30 years old - male

    Posted by XxVCowxX Jul 29th, 2009 at 11:40PM

    People who get pregnant quickly and thoughtlessly are unfit parents. Duh.

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  6. mariellarose - 18-21 years old - female

    Posted by mariellarose Jul 29th, 2009 at 11:37PM

    Murphy's Law.

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  7. keiffers - 46-50 years old - male

    Posted by keiffers Jul 29th, 2009 at 6:46PM

    I agree. I for one have no children of my own, but I see a whole lot of **#$@%^ people who have them and dont care. Life aint fare honey.

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  8. adept - 31-35 years old - male

    Posted by adept Jul 29th, 2009 at 6:10PM

    Like they say that "dumb" ("bad") people are good in bed, they usually care less and enjoy more. To have fun means to better the chances of success, also in "producing a baby".

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  9. KittenHasaWhip - 46-50 years old - female

    Posted by KittenHasaWhip Jul 30th, 2009 at 11:43AM

    They are irresponsible and selfish.

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  10. SummerWind18 - 26-30 years old - female

    Posted by SummerWind18 Jul 30th, 2009 at 5:19AM

    yes, i agree on this. i have often observed this. I believe it is because irresponsible immature people don't use protection and have never event thought of the possibility. They don't know what it takes to raise a child, and many end up doing a bad job of it.
    I think life is trying to teach them a lesson.
    To show them, one of the most meaningful things with a potential for love, children, that you only can do once in your life--and you ****** that up. Good going, you will have to live with that forever irresponsible people who got pregnant at 15 years old or on crack.

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  11. ferina - 16-17 years old - female

    Posted by ferina Jul 30th, 2009 at 2:59AM

    They Want SEX:
    S-ex
    with
    EX-Gf/Bf!!!

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  12. braxtonag - 41-45 years old

    Posted by braxtonag Jul 29th, 2009 at 9:40PM

    i honestly wish i knew the answer to this one. believe me, i have pondered it many times.....

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  13. Explodey - 22-25 years old - male

    Posted by Explodey Jul 29th, 2009 at 8:34PM

    Because if smart, well adjusted people who are fit to be parents keep having kids the population will come to be of such a high quality that it will transcend the very notion of having children and noone will reproduce any more. I guess it might be a survival mechanism of the species. That's my theory anyway.

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  14. VoomZoom - 26-30 years old - male

    Posted by VoomZoom Jul 29th, 2009 at 7:04PM

    Because they are selfish.

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  15. RachelR - 26-30 years old - female

    Posted by RachelR Jul 29th, 2009 at 5:49PM

    Good catch Silver!

    Anywho, it is nature design.

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  16. silvrsurfr - 46-50 years old - male

    Posted by silvrsurfr Jul 29th, 2009 at 5:47PM

    Isn't it the unfit non-parents that first get pregnant?

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  17. haleynicolebby - 16-17 years old - female

    Posted by haleynicolebby Jul 29th, 2009 at 5:47PM

    I think it's to teach the irresponsible responsibility. I donno why fit parents have such a hard time though:(

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