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How many people from my old school are pregnant/have kids.

IanExMachinaIanExMachina
edited 2011-06-10 16:12:30 in Meatspace
I am Dr. Ned who is totally not Dr. Zed in disguise.
I mean most of them are 22 or 23.
It seems like a huge burden at that age.


Not really related but something the sociologist in me would like to do more on.
It is interesting to look at the very rough breakdown relating to education.
  • The majority of them are the ones who did not choose to carry on after their GCSEs (so age 16 school leavers).
  • There a few that have completed A levels (leaving education at 18).
  • None of them that have completed university courses have kids/pregnant.

Comments

  • GLORIOUSLeaderGLORIOUSLeader
    edited 2011-06-10 16:17:47
    When in Turkey, ROCK THE FUCK OUT
    Oh, thank God, for a second I read the title as "How many people from my school are pregnant/have kids" and I was like WAT. 

    Well, I suppose those people would decide to choose between having a family at an early age and continuing their education. I've not much information on England's school system, but I have a feeling the general perspective on those who don't pursue higher education is different than over in America, no? I know there's a word for hating when a person has great achievements, but I can't remember it off the top of my head. I know the feeling gets used a lot in Europe, which may contribute. 
  • IanExMachinaIanExMachina
    I am Dr. Ned who is totally not Dr. Zed in disguise.
    ^ Well being in the UK with our high teen pregnancy rate, that title would have worked when I was at school.
  • SotiCotoSotiCoto
    RE-ANIMATOR
    Electrolytes Kids. Its what idiots crave.
  • IanExMachinaIanExMachina
    I am Dr. Ned who is totally not Dr. Zed in disguise.
    I really fancy a starbucks now.
  • GLORIOUSLeaderGLORIOUSLeader
    When in Turkey, ROCK THE FUCK OUT
    You fancy a young cabinboy? 
  • JG_PunkJG_Punk
    YO YO YO U CAN'T C ME BOUT TO SPIT SUMTIN' STOOPID!
    I can relate to this, I can go on facebook and find a handful of girls I went to school with gushing about their man and how beautiful their baby is.
  • SotiCotoSotiCoto
    edited 2011-06-10 18:39:30
    RE-ANIMATOR
    It disturbs me.
    It leads me to realise that I'm getting old. All my former school-associates are either domesticated.... or doing a LOT better than me.

    ... By which I mean they advanced further in their academic fields than I did in mine, have travelled much more of the world than me, seen more things and generally had a good time. I envy them.
    On the flipside, those who got married and had kids, I just pity.  What idiots...  I was only married for a year before getting divorced. I totally win.
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    It also disturbs me that I'm getting old.  And that a number of people I knew in high school are now married.
  • SotiCotoSotiCoto
    RE-ANIMATOR
    I'd like to think I've already long since done with mid-life crises, but then I was never entirely sure if those accounted for the intention to absolutely die as early as possible, especially when I've shown a disappointing lack of control over such things.
    I suppose if it only accounts for the age one would typically live to if one "died of old age" then it isn't a big deal. I figure I'll have those crises when I'm actually dying or something... but... meh.

    Point is I don't like being 27 all that much. It is already past the point where one can still consider oneself "young"...  It is where I've lived long enough to notice how I'm rotting away.
  • ViviVivi
    $80+ per session
    Glad I did it young. Like my mom, and her mom.
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