Mothers
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The Reveren
Dr. Finnland
English 101
08 May 2006
Giving up a baby or keeping her right to party?
What is logical and illogical to one person can be extremely different to another person. One person's concept of what is right can be different from another person, making so many issues controversial. Issues such as abortion, religion, world hunger, immigration, and others all have two sides or more, and since people are all unique so are their answers. In the essay "Giving up a Baby", the teenage mother explains why she found it appropriate to give her baby up for adoption. Many people might agree or disagree this is solely up to the reader. The nameless mother lists her reasons as she finds them important, her age, the problems her parents would have, her own future.
The teenage mother begins to justify her act by stating that she was too young. "I was only seventeen, and I was unmarried," she writes. The fact that she is so young suggests to the reader that she is an irresponsible teen, although if one keeps reading, she states "I knew that I would be a child raising a child. In addition, I had not had the experiences in life that would make me a responsible giving parent," this statement shows how the writer is mature enough to understand that providing for a child is an extreme responsibility. This is the mother's first of three reasons why she deemed giving up her baby correct.
She then states the issue of the problems her parents will face if she were to keep the baby. Because the mother had dropped out of high school she had no chance to get a job; her parents would have to support her and her baby. "Even if I eventually got a job, my parents would have to be full-time baby-sitters...Because my parents are good people, they would have done all this for me." The writer continues by saying that although she knew her parents would have helped her take care of her child she did not want to burden them with that responsibility. This is her second reason, although her parents would have helped her, she prefers
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