Should high schools be required to offer a day care service for their teen parents?
It happens. One night you make a mistake, and the next thing you know, you’re 5 months pregnant. As if telling the ‘rents wasn’t hard enough, as you walk down the hallway at your high school everyone can see that you’re pregnant. Everyone knows by now, but you’re still ashamed of yourself, and now on top of that you have a baby that you must take care of. But you’re in high school, and you sincerely wish to continue your studies and try to get into college so that you can set your future straight, besides the new life you’re now responsible for. At least you’re not in this alone; the boy who impregnated you is also taking responsibility for the baby. You take turns caring for your new daughter/son, but there’s only so much that you can do while still trying to keep up your grades. You don’t make enough money with your weekend job at Wawa to pay for day care, and the father seems as though he’s always studying or struggling to finish assignments. So what do you do? Should the high school take charge of these situations? Should they provide a day care service for their teen parents? Should they be required to provide this service?
After all it’s your fault that you’re pregnant anyway, so in theory you should have to provide for that child. You’re (as well as the father of the child) are still in high school and would like to continue your education of course, like I said before. So what will happen to the kid?
I think that the high schools shouldn’t provide a day care service for their teen parents. They’re the ones that messed up, so it’s their responsibility to take care of it, however difficult it may be. The high schools didn’t make you guys have sex, so they don’t deserve to be stuck with the baby afterwards. The high schools aren’t involved with this ‘problem’ in any way; therefore it’s not their responsibility to help you out with it. You may complain that it is unfair, but it is in fact fair in every way.
