So today in order to get some community service hours for confirmation (No this isn't going to go into christianity and stuff) I went with these group of people from my parish to St. Martha's in Jersey City. It was really sad to see all this stuff that was going on. 16, 17 year old moms telling us that they needed more food for there (insert number of children here.) The most memorable part of this trip was, this 3 or 4 year old girl came up to me and asked if we had any sugar cookies left. I said no regrettably and said that we didn't have any left. =[. I wanted to give her a thousand sugar cookies. She also said she couldn't have chocolate, so not chocolate chip cookies. =/.

This experience really opened my eyes to how the rest of the world lives. Comments?

I don't feel sorry for anyone who has ****ed up their life.

the kids are different, but really if your 16-17 years old and get pregnant and your expecting other people to make up for your mistakes you are sadly mistaken

What if the girl got raped?

adoption?

if you get raped, get pregnant, and feel obligated to take the baby, then don't go on welfare, don't beg for food. because it was your choice. you should know the consequences of having a baby. and honestly do you think those people that came into the soup kitchen got raped?

anyone who gets raped and pregnant and decides to raise it like a normal person has my utmost respect

EDIT: I don't think it's wrong for you to feel bad and the feel need to do something about it at all. you have my respect. I just can't stand the idea of welfare, or someone trying to make me feel bad to donate some money to some place

Really makes you appreciate your own life eh? Also makes you appreciate people for who they are; black, white, gay, straight, big, small, etc etc...it's just unfortunate how some people judge others based on bronze-age myths and societal indoctrinations.

At least we have our eyes to see, our ears to hear... and with these things comes a moral obligation to help others. Hey, I'm not rich myself but I still manage to donate to charity, others can use it more than I can, that's for sure.

I work with Food Not Bombs and have seen so many people in really ****ed up situations. Its a really interesting experience. Sitting on the other side of line is tough too.

Really makes you appreciate your own life eh? Also makes you appreciate people for who they are; black, white, gay, straight, big, small, etc etc...it's just unfortunate how some people judge others based on bronze-age myths and societal indoctrinations.

At least we have our eyes to see, our ears to hear... and with these things comes a moral obligation to help others. Hey, I'm not rich myself but I still manage to donate to charity, others can use it more than I can, that's for sure.

/the truth

It's just so depressing. Specifically the kids. I mean.... there probably going to get caught up in drugs or something. There going to be doing this once a month for the rest of there lives.

I might as well post why I hate this whole thing since razz called me out.

I was born in canada in 1990, perfectly fine life, mom and dad separated when I was 5 I think. life was still fine I was pretty unaware of things. We moved to minnesota in 1999. I have no idea why and things just kept getting worse. We moved into to a section 8 apartment downtown with some pretty sketchy people around us. we had a rat infestation and mom didn't get a job. we moved out a year later to a slightly better section 8 apartment. Mom still didn't get a job due to her "mental disabilitys" we were getting food stamps, SSI, and child support to live on, which roughly totaled 700-800$ a month.

My mom was perfectly capable of getting a job, she lived a perfectly good life the first 35 years of her life. a couple years later she went to the doctors for something and 4 hours later the cops came to our door to take my brother and I to a shelter. We stayed their for a week and it again sucked. this happened again a couple years later except we stayed with friends. All through middle school mom was just kind of a zombie, didn't really do anything and was on atleast 10 different kinds of prescriptions. In highschool it started to pick up and has continued to. almost 2 years ago my dad was diagnosed with lung and spine cancer, he still lived in Toronto. he died the next year just a month before we had money to come visit him. I started skating a little before he was diagnosed and met a ton of people, some of which I think were very good role models for me. Now I'm here, mom still hasn't got a job, and we're living off of dad's pension which is slightly more than we got before.

I absolutely can't stand it when I have to tell people I live off the government or when people ask me what my parents do. I hate it when people apologize for my dad dying. I still love my mom, shes one of the nicest people I know. But I know that there are SO MANY other choices she could have made to better her life and ours.

I guess that's why I'm so bitter towards this?

I'm guessing most people didn't think I was raised this way? Yes I have eaten at soup kitchens, yes I've gone to the food shelf, yes theres been days where we didn't have any food or any presents under the Christmas tree (which was much bigger deal when I was younger.)

/the truth

It's just so depressing. Specifically the kids. I mean.... there probably going to get caught up in drugs or something. There going to be doing this once a month for the rest of there lives.

I'm not caught up in drugs, gangs, or whatever, I'm pretty sure I'm fine. That's also their choice. You also can take into account that young kids are easily influenced by other people, they could probably use your friendship more than your money

^ I wasn't calling you out, I didn't even read your post until now lol. I agree with everything you said in that last post btw, some people are just lazy and whine-whine-whine for more money.

oh my bad, well you got a tear out of me for typing that post.. lol

i think doing community service is very eye-opening....
i always hate when i have to do it, but looking back, i realize that it has broadened my outlook on life in a way that nothing else ever has.
sometimes i forget how self-centered i am, but helping others always seems to remind me.

I think that it is sad when there are those irresponsible teenage girls who get pregnant and you know for a fact that their kid isn't going to have a nice place to grow up. In my school, there is this group of girls, who have since now dropped out of high school, who all got pregnant around the same time. I would hear them on the bus talking about how they were at a party and got drunk (while pregnant), or talking about all their ex boyfriends, and current ones who they are considering dumping.

They are all trainwrecks, and it is sad that some of these girls are actually keeping their kids. I know it is their kid, and their right to keep it, but they have to think about the bigger picture. Dropping out of high school will mean they will have a terrible job, they have new boyfriends every week (I honestly don't know why someone would date them, especially when they are pregnant with some other losers baby), so the kid will never have a true family identity. Plus, if the kid ends up with a disablility from all their during-pregnancy drinking, then it will be doubly messed up.

I don't really feel bad for the people that get themselves into these situations from irresponsible matters, but I feel bad for the kids, the real victims, that their only crime was being born to someone selfish who doesn't know whats best.

I think that it is sad when there are those irresponsible teenage girls who get pregnant and you know for a fact that their kid isn't going to have a nice place to grow up. In my school, there is this group of girls, who have since now dropped out of high school, who all got pregnant around the same time. I would hear them on the bus talking about how they were at a party and got drunk (while pregnant), or talking about all their ex boyfriends, and current ones who they are considering dumping.

They are all trainwrecks, and it is sad that some of these girls are actually keeping their kids. I know it is their kid, and their right to keep it, but they have to think about the bigger picture. Dropping out of high school will mean they will have a terrible job, they have new boyfriends every week (I honestly don't know why someone would date them, especially when they are pregnant with some other losers baby), so the kid will never have a true family identity. Plus, if the kid ends up with a disablility from all their during-pregnancy drinking, then it will be doubly messed up.

I don't really feel bad for the people that get themselves into these situations from irresponsible matters, but I feel bad for the kids, the real victims, that their only crime was being born to someone selfish who doesn't know whats best.

couldnt of said it any better...

here that people the 90% steal things and i want that people die . the rest its fine but its hard to see the difference between the two . and another thing i think they have to give job to the people work and live with another peoples and aport things contribution to society .IF ITS A LITTLE CHILD try to send to a school where will obligations like homework and that thing . they take away from the streets and have an education to get a job after and have a normal life