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Who the f**k are you to tell her what she should and shouldn’t be proud of?
We don’t know who the F**k he/she is, but YOU are obviously 12…and pregnant hahahahaha
omg stautra? what are you doing here!?
<3 adonreia
j/k but if that really is you…..
WOW
RELAX
How do we know that she was young during her 8th grade graduation? Maybe she failed several time and graduated when she was of legal age? Or maybe she had to quit and then went back to school when she got pregnant?
Really guys? “who says she can’t be happy?” “maybe she was 70 when she graduated..” wtf? why are you defending someone who very well might have been joking. and even if they’re not, getting preg in 8th grade is fcked up and irresponsible, not saying it can’t be a blessing later. I hate it when people defend someone just for the sake of defending someone, you’re really going out on a wierd possibility to make a point… very weak argumental strategy.
I’m Welsh, how old is 8th grade? Is it 12-13 year olds? :]
I’ll bet welfare dollars bought the electronic device that allowed this woman to post this status update.
WIN.
@ elg3: Right!?!?!?!
I’ll bet your right… sad…very, very sad…
*you’re
If we want a mother-f—–g spell check we will press F7 so don’t come out of your hole until you are asked.
oh no… EVERYONE RUN!! IT’S THE PAPER CLIP FROM WORD!!! AHHHHHH!
IMA FIRIN’ MAH LAZAHS!!!!! EAT THAT PAPER CLIP!!!
f**king awesome name!!!!!
And so what? If statutory rape doesn’t merit your compassion, what would? This woman and her daughter are the victims of a child molester and you’re going after who, again?
…really? Do you actually know this woman? Do you know for a FACT that she was a victim of child molestation and not just the inability to make good decisions?
If not, then shut up. The phrase “statutory rape” is bulls**t if the sex is consensual and between two minors.
So, the law only counts if you say it does? Even if there was another kid involved, she still got a raw deal. She was 14 when she was pregnant. There is no jurisdiction where that’s legal.
No, the law still counts, but that doesn’t make it any less absurd. If it was consensual sex with another child, and it was HER OWN CHOICE to do it, then the fault is both his AND hers. Period.
aha, that’s where you’re wrong. Here in SC the age of consent is 14! (Doesn’t make it any more right… just saying.)
14 year old boys can get 14 year old girls pregnant and I don’t think that would qualify as child molesting… just child stupidity
You’re right, it wouldn’t. Age of consent only matters if the child wants sex with adults.
This woman and her daughter are victims of statutory rape and you blame, not the guy who put her in that position, but the woman who is raising the daughter. Nice.
If you can look her up and cite from her own words that she is indeed a rape victim, then I believe that comment will prove valid. Otherwise… it is simply puffing the air of ‘possibility.’
She was 14 when she was pregnant. There is no jurisdiction where that’s legal.
Is it more illegal or less illegal if she had sex with a 12 year old boy?
Canada.
legend
Yeah. Screw the poor!
Uh, no, “Chris”- screw the stupid, lazy, breeders that live off of working people’s money.
not all on welfare are stupid breeders… some have lost everything to disaster and need help getting on their feet… in this case maybe a stupid mistake (and not one to be proud of on fb) but really don’t judge unless you know the person is a “stupid, lazy breeder”
Not all. Most.
Keep telling yourself that. It makes it easier not to care, doesn’t it?
Generalization: 99% are stupid, lazy breeders. Go DUHHHH yourself, fu3ktard.
You missed that conversation. Don’t post again.
but that would only make more…
Unless of course she has a family who loves her…
elg3 FTW
in australia, welfare = cash. noone gets food stamps since its a breach of the freedom of something.
and also, sure some people on welfare need/deserve welfare, but some really are just stupid leechers. they actually proudly admit they got pregnant for the baby bonus (which is a basically a few grand from the govt when you have a baby) and then complain about $1000 a week being too little. not even kidding.
Not sure of the Australian $/ US $ exchange rate, but I live on $450 a month plus $200 in food stamps. My daughter drinks 1/3 of our food stamps in milk a month. Welfare of course, ends for us this month, with the new job. Also, in CA, you can only recieve welfare for 60 months in your entire life. I hardly believe that this woman would even still be on welfare, considering that her daughter is 13, even if she was in another state.
yeah… who knows. $1000AUD gives around $850-$900USD i think. so that’s pretty darn good. i know my parents don’t earn that much and they managed to raise me and my sister. in aus, we have no welfare limits, if you’re “disadvantaged” you get money, the system is ridiculous, some of my friends at school are crazy rich and still manage to get youth allowance because the money their parents make fall in some category that isn’t counted.
seems like the american system is way tougher though. maybe she lives in britain or soemthing.
It’s called an abortion. It’s a relatively simple procedure. I assume since you’re calling him a “rednecked, hillbilly, republican” that you lean more towards the left. Abortion should’ve been fine for you and you would’ve avoided you’re ironically charmed life.
Wow, Purple, you’re awesome. My “assumption” was sarcasm, used to make a point about making assumptions without basis. And my politics have nothing to do with my religion or willingness to have a fetus forcibly removed from my body. But hey, when you decide, with no difficulty in making that decision, that you want to have an invasive procedure done good on you. And believe me, having a baby has been the least of my problems. Nice to know that you don’t realize that these are real people on the internet. You’re a pompous ass who obviously either has very little life experience, or has refused to learn from it.
Did you not read ” Hell, you’re probably a rednecked, hillbilly, Republican. How would it be fair for me to make that assumption?”
Maybe someone should’ve aborted you.
i’m a redneck republican whats so bad about that?
f u elg3
What’s wrong? Welfare pay for yours too?
lookin like it :/
Bob’s a tard.
I believe the difference is that you are not living in -public’s- basement. I can see the point you were trying to make, yet the example you used to relate to welfare doesn’t entirely work due to the intimacy level.
Without, “Which is so different than your mommy and daddy paying to keep your spoiled ass in their basement,” the point is fine – though it is partially making the assumption that everyone on welfare never -chose- to be on it.
There is generational welfare, after all.
I am not bidding that the majority choose to live from check to check. I am only critiquing your reasoning so that others do not choose to suddenly nod so quickly in agreement to this opinion. *smiles*
omg how old was she when she had that kid?
Would’ve been 13 or 14.
Probably about 14.
Actually, it would be more like 12 or 13 providing she hadn’t failed any grades… My birthday’s in December, so I was 12 going into it and 13 when i finished…
Roughly 13, yeah. To be fair, having a child at that age doesn’t necessarily mean the child’s going to have a bad life if she or her parents have the money to support the child.
Of course, however, that’s still nothing to be proud of. I think the woman is more proud of the life she’s given her daughter then the age she had her.
How about no? I’m 14, and I started 8th grade when I was 13. Hell, my friend was 14 when she started 8th grade. So, yes, it would be about 13-14.
It depends when you’re birthday is….
July to September would be 12-13 and January to June would be 13-14.
So how about you think think things through next time?
Let’s not forget the possibility she skipped a grade or two, which would make her 10 or 11. For cripes sake, babies shouldn’t be having babies!!! FAIL, FAIL, FAIL!
Because the smart kids are the ones who get pregnant…? More likely she failed a few grades and was 16 in 8th grade.
i know enough smart girls who go prego in hs… no all that rare… they are not professionals who worked hard for as many as 3 degrees and great jobs along with having the kid… for some welfare helps enough to get you thru the tough part… don’t knock it unless you know it’s only one type of person on the rolls.. it’s not
Yeah, but the smart girls who get pregnant have abortions or give the babies up for adoption.
My decision to keep my daughter rather than put her up for adoption, even though I would have to be on welfare, was based on the fact that my adopted brother was in foster care until he was 9. Passed around from home to home, where the government still footed the bill. And when he was adopted by my parents, we were a happy family. Until my parents divorced. My dad moved in with a new boyfriend, an alcoholic. Our mom left with our new stepdad, 2,000 miles away. Adoption doesn’t always turn out perfectly, either. And we don’t all believe in abortion. And some of us are raped.
uh…no, thats not true.
what about October, November, and December, which you left out of your list. I was born in November and I was 13 going in to 8th, so I think that might go against what you just said
I don’t know how school works where you’re from but in order to start the 8th grade at the age of 12 here you’d have to be THE youngest in the grade.
I’m the youngest in mine (I’ve never skipped a grade or been held back) and I turned 13 the day before my 8th grade year started.
I started high school in September of 1984, I turned 14 in November of 1984. If you subtract 1 year, I was 12 in 1983 when I started the 8th grade & 13 throughout the rest of the year. Hence, she was 13 or 14 when she gave birth because she said she was pregnant during graduation which is in June.
As for her skipping grades, just because a child is smart doesn’t mean they have a good home life. She could have been very intelligent but neglected by her parents so she craved male attention and got pregnant.
Or she could be from a different country, and the school year would be different. Why don’t you think it through?
….Dumbnut
about 14 or 15
i would kno bc i’m 13 in 7th grade, going into 8th nxt yr.
Maybe it’s different in different countries? I’m in the UK, and I was 12-13 in Year 8 (which I assume is the same thing!). Mind you, that was a distressingly long time ago….
It varies around the US, I was 13 all through 8th grade, but 90% of my class was 14, I moved when I was little so the age cutoff was different.
year 8 is grade 7
Then you must’ve entered kindergarten late.
My birthday is in September and I’m 16 and going into my senior year (about a week into school I will be 17).
When I graduated, my peers were either 13 or 14 – the only ones who were 14 were the ones who had birthdays from Jan-June.
That’s how I was, entering school a year later. My birthday is at the end of July, so I turned 14 about a week prior to my 8th grade year.
Your comment has won you 10 welfare dollars!! Head on down to the swap meet and get yourself a genuine imitation Rolecks watch.
11-12 is 6th grade, 12-13 is 7th, 13-14 is 8th.
It’s different in different countries.
Here 8th grade is 14-15.
plus its different in different states in th US. I dont know about in any other state, but at least in Georgia, you dont really have to even start kindergarden until you are 8 years old. its up to the parent if they want you in school before that.
It’s the same in PA. You’re even allowed to attend if you’re married- a small time frame for being of the normal school attending age and being allowed to marry, but still legal.
I think what I really meant was the compulsory attendance law, but you get the idea.
Dude, plenty of people who didn’t fail any grades are 18 when they graduate from high school. That means they were 14 when they finished 8th grade. It’s really not uncommon – it mostly depends on when your school district’s cut-off date for enrollment in kindergarten is. A lot of schools won’t let you start until you’re 5 years old – that means, if your birthday is in October, you’ll turn six during your second month of kindergarten, 14 during 8th grade, 18 during 12th grade, etc.
It’s basic addition. It’s really not that difficult. Though hilariously ironic, given your comment.
I don’t think I mentioned anything about how old she was. I merely inferred, based on the given information, that she was prone to making stupid decisions (i.e., having unprotected sex in 8th grade) which implies that perhaps she was not all that intelligent at a young age. Ergo, it is highly possible that she may have failed a grade.
It’s not quite a safe assumption to say that her pregnancy is due to stupidity.
There are lots of other options… Relationship abuse and rape being two of them.
Are you saying all rape victims who get pregnant are stupid?
Of course not. However, I don’t see anything that proves or even SUGGESTS that she was raped. If that IS the case, I will retract my statements with apologies. But unless that happens, it’s all just useless conjecture.
I love how you turned the verbosity on when objected.
That’s how I roll.
You think he’s being verbose? There isn’t a single word in there you shouldn’t have known the meaning of at 13…
First, I’m a woman. Second,
ver·bose [ver-bohs]
-adjective
1. characterized by the use of many or too many words; wordy
Notice how it says nothing about the difficulty of the words involved? Third, I would love to see how many average 13-year-olds you can actually find nowadays that know all of those words.
tl;dr
ummmm
Id love to see a 6 year old who is not mentally challenged NOT know those.
Okay. Why don’t you go find some non-mentally-challenged 6-year-olds and ask them what ‘ergo’ means? I’ll wait.
I do… But I’m an honor student who finished the year with a 4.0. So… I guess I’m above average.
Oh, of course. I knew those words at 13, too. But I’m sure both you and .-. know people your age that don’t. (Yes, I’m including .-.’s classmates that are now 15.)
Above average in bragging on the internet, certainly. Nobody cares.
Especially considering that they could have taken all -core- (AKA simple) classes for that perfect GPA… It’s definitely not the first. Funny considering they finished the ‘year’ and not the entire four. (Or several more years considering if you take high school classes in middle school for an early start.)
Not to mention AP (Advanced Placement) classes which sets them to be rather pathetic considering a 4.0 is childish compared to those getting a 4.5 or 4.6 through performing brilliantly through many AP classes.
I’m 13. :/ Point. You missed it.
And, I’ve never had lower than 3.8 something. Ever. I am in AP classes. My school doesn’t have ap science or social studies, it’s simple. But I take advanced math, reading, and language arts. I’ve had a high school reading level since 2nd grade. So seriously, you’re typing that much for this?
Lame. I’m just saying not all 13 year olds are retards. Some people are above, too. *shrugs* whatever. This is irrelevant to my life.
Whoops. I did miss that. I do apologize.
I knew those words when I was 13, I’m 15 now. But I have always cared more about school than my friends. -_-
I didn’t skip any grades, and I was leaving the 8th grade at age 12. I turned 13 four months into my freshman year. I was born on the cutoff date, so I was the youngest in my class (4 years old going into kindergarten); that would make most average kids 13 (maybe even 14 for the oldest in the class) when they leave the 8th grade.
…but it’s far longer, more intricate, and (get this) well punctuated which, to those who don’t know better, indicates verbosity.
It’s a pretty sad state of affairs when articulated speech is written off as being needlessly verbose, particularly when none of the reasons cited are indicative of verbosity. Personally I found it rather concise given the information she was trying to convey.
Verbose means using a lot of words, not big words.
I posted a reply to this 7 hours ago which, for some reason, is still awaiting moderation. I’d sum up what it says, but then it would be weird when it actually shows up. So just rest assured, I have made my rebuttal.
It’s fine, we still love you.
It doesn’t matter how many words she used that i don’t know. I’m actually very knowledgeable of the english vocabulary for a 2nd language speaker. But that doesn’t even pertain. What i meant is that (and i do it too, sometimes…) some people use grandiose speeches to accomplish a false sense of rhetorical upper hand. And, obviously enough, that’s a common fallacy. I can explain the irony of my post with the fact that this is an explanation, not an argument…
Wait. Are you insulting me or not? Sarcasm doesn’t travel well over the internet, so I can’t be sure.
That wasn’t sarcasm; more like a mix of insult and a self-deprecating observation, since i admittedly do the same from time to time. But it’s silly, nonetheless… But, don’t worry, you’re alright.
No one graduates grade 8 when they’re 12. Unless they’re a year ahead. 13 or 14 is the correct answer. I started at 12, graduated at 13. The rest of my class was 14.
Not in my state. I was 13 going into 8th grade and 14 coming out, no missed grades. In my state, you couldn’t enter first grade unless you had turned six by the end of August.
i just graduated 8th grade and ive been 14 since october. Also, ive never been held back
did you skip a grade?
most people where 13-15, i dont think there where any 12 yr olds in 8th grade at my school. the youngest people where 13, because they where born in the summer
The average would be 14, most kids are 14 at the end of 8th grade.
OH MY GOD, WHO CARES.
I was 12 going into Grade 8. No failing, no skipping. Other people were clearly 13 or 14 without failing or skipping. I don’t think that everyone here is lying, so why the continued arguments? Obviously, it’s different from place to place.
Logic fail. All of you.
Regardless of her age, whether she was 12 or 13 or 14, it’s still extremely young to have a child.
Don’t really get the problem. The mother is acknowledging her own mistake and celebrating the kid’s success. How is that wrong? If the kid isn’t pregnant, it’s a step forward. Obviously this is a family that started out at a low point and is coming back as well as they can.
This! Well said, sir.
Agreed. I think it’s a pretty big win that the mum is proud of her kid; the daughter clearly has a lot of support from a parent who has likely made the best of a bad choice. If only all underage parents were able to do the same!
Thank God for some fair opinions here. As far as everything I’ve read, people who’ve been replying to this don’t think that they’ve ever made a mistake. When, more likely than not, they just haven’t suffered any major consequences.
You. Yeah, you. You with the logic and the compassion and the understanding and the lack of passing judgment on others. I give you fair warning:
We don’t take kindly to your types around here.
But in all seriousness, well-said.
This made me lol…and think of pandas…
There’s only one small flaw in your dramatic tale of human dignity and survival. This is posted between someone quoting a TV show pun about “C-Men/semen” and an aspiring doctor who can’t spell “neurosurgeon”.
This is on Facebook.
_Facebook_
What is this, your first day ever on teh internetz?
… what part of this indicates she’s *proud* to have been pregnant in 8th grade? On the contrary, she seems to recognize how much better at life her daughter is doing than she herself had done. Complete and total win by the mother, successfully giving her daughter a better life than she had. Failbook fail. Again.
Bareley a fail by failbook. she could have put the same message accross without telling the world of facebook that she had her daughter at the age of 14. paul fail
She didn’t tell “the world of facebook”. She posted a status update. Her friends would have been the ones to see it. Her friends most likely already know her personal history. One of her friends decided to tell the world of Failbook.
Paul needs to get a life.
Unlike all the people spending their Saturday mornings making fun of a woman who f’ed up 13 years ago. Right.
No…just the guy that commented 5 times!……make sure to leave another gay comment I know you will cause you can’t shut the f**k up.
using gay as an insult! nice show ov maturity there, mate!
ditto! Wow, amazing to hear that in this day and age, especially from someone who seems to consider themselves “enlightened.”
Paul is jealous he wasn’t gettin’ any in 8th grade. Don’t hate the player, hate the game Paul.
Hate the game.
The game you lost.
Spending your defending her is better? No one said they had a life, they just told you that you needed one.
Uhm, yes, actually. Defending someone who has done nothing wrong, is in fact, a vastly better way to spend one’s time than insulting someone who has done nothing wrong.
if their prepared to screw up they should be ready to be made fun of
How exactly does one “prepare to screw up”?
And since you insist, shall I now make fun of you for your English language fail? After all, you should be ready for it, right?
Lol internet is SRS BZNS.
I like cookies. Not the raisin kind, the chocolate kind. AND DON’T YOU FU**ING DARE PU RAISINS IN MY COKKIEZ!!1!1
lmfao
prepare to screw up: have unprotected sex. thats how kids are born right?
Let me try to use one syllable words, so you’ll understand:
Her fail was 10 plus 3 years in the past. This post is not a fail. This post is a mom who is proud of her kid.
Is that more clear to you now? You are making fun of someone who made a bad choice 13 years ago. Who, by the by, was 13 years old at the time.
so fails get to lose importance over time? Fail once, fail forever. And if she was old enough to be having sex, she was old enough to take precautions. Its fail cause walls are public, so yes, everyone saw this.
Wow, even one syllable words didn’t help you, huh? The post was that she was proud of her daughter, for being better off than she was at her daughter’s age. That is not a fail. Yet Failbook is asserting that this post is a fail.
If the post had been “LOL I’m in eighth grade and I’m preggers!”, then yes, that would be a fail.
And no, your wall is not public by default. It is visible to your friends by default. Congratulations on your understanding-Facebook fail.
congratulations on having seen the status. Friend of friend ftw
yeah, whatever.
it’s sad that one of the things that the mother is proud about is her daughter didn’t get knocked up at 14.
yeah, i’d be soooo proud.
DERP DERP DERP
…Especially since we live in a country where we lie to kids about birth control, and leave them flailing to figure it out on our own, because most parents are sexually repressed and most school are required to teach Abstinence Only.
Frankly, I’m surprised pregnant 13-year-olds doesn’t happen more often. She isn’t a “fail.” She’s a casualty of our dangerous cultural repression.
or, you know the condom broke and she was an accident, or maybe she was raped on got pregnant, i agree with Paul, she should be allowed to be proud of her kid, regardless when she had her.
you do realize that condoms and birth control don’t work 100% of the time right?
Paul Rocks!
Paul does indeed rock.
agreed. Paul is the only one talking sense.
Gotta side with Paul here. Unfortunately you know the rules of arguing on the Internet…
What? That the nazi-reference will be 2 clicks on the [pg dn]-button from now?
Thank you Paul for defending this mother. Many of the children on here don’t understand the pain this woman went through. It’s obvious she was reflecting on her past in comparison with her daughter’s life. We should always be quick to defend the underdog and those undeserving of such negative comments.
“Done nothing wrong”? Are you serious? Everyone gets sex ed sometime in 5th grade, and again a few more times between 6th and graduation (real graduation, from highschool, not kindergarten or eighth grade). She made and incredibly stupid mistake, and then didn’t fix it by having an abortion. Having a kid, in this day and age, at 13 is wrong! You have not matured, and other people, from parents and grandparents to taxpayers, are the ones who will be burdened with taking care of your illegitimate, unplanned, unneccessary offspring. Causing other people problems, and costing other people money is doing something, imo.
*something wrong
Book6, you’re wrong. Everybody does NOT get sex ed in 5th (or even any other) grade. It’s not part of any state’s required curriculum, and each school district in the entire nation gets to decide for itself whether or not to include it. Most districts in Texas, for example, do NOT offer sex ed, beyond a one session class explaining to 4th grade girls that in a couple of years they’ll get their periods – and that “education” does not include “you can then get pregnant, so use birth control”.
I’m thankful my district (I’m from Texas) was not one of those. Our second sex ed class in 8th grade (the first one being in 4th, as you stated, but it did mention pregnancy) was pretty in depth. We even watched a video of a baby being born. That, more than anything, was a big enough wake-up call for most on the realities of sex and using protection.
Of course, parents had to sign a waiver saying their children could take the class and a surprising number of them opted out. Which is sad.
in some cultures and religions, such as catholicism, abortions are deemed unacceptable. Therefore it is very possible that her own sense of morality precluded the possibility of abortion. Or she might have learned about the pregnancy too late. This will never be fail, the mother is simply proud that her daughter has more sense than she had at that age. welfare is also not a bad thing at all. the trick is to tax the right people, like the ones with money. And your disregard for the child is sickening. I am not anti-abortion, but i think your intentional malice towards a child that is already born, a child that will endure such malice for the rest of their life, is disgusting. Book6 fail.
I disagree with your statement on welfare. Why should my hard-earned money go towards paying for stupid people? I’ll support those who CANNOT work due to accident, injury, or illness, but there are charities who do a better job of that than the government. “Mardi Gras”, as welfare day is known in Vancouver, is a great example of why government welfare doesn’t work. If you don’t believe me, go there and see it for yourself. It’s sickening. People helping people works better than the government helping people.
I just wanted to add that I didn’t actually get sex ed until I was in the 7th grade. They did not teach about birth control or other options. It’s not really her fault. One other thing I want to point out- she would probably been in seventh grade or in the summer between school years when the baby was conceived. How do we even know it was consensual?
If only there were enough people willing to help.
She did tell “the world of Facebook;” in fact, she told the Internet at large. It’s a bit naive to think that *only* close friends are going to see a FB status update, especially if this user is one of the millions who have no clue how their privacy settings work.
Failbook works because of users like the owner of this status update, who don’t think before making information like this available to the Internet at large.
From any angle, including the bit about how hold she was when she had her daughter was irresponsible on her part, and yet another example of someone who doesn’t realize that *nothing* is private on the Internet.
You operate on the assumption that this woman – who is now 26 years old, at least, is still ashamed of a bad choice she made when she was 13. You assume she is so ashamed of it that she doesn’t want anyone to know she has a daughter. You further assume she is one of the idiots who have changed their privacy settings to allow anyone and everyone to see her wall posts.
That’s a whole lot of asses you’ve just made out of yourself.
Relax Paul.
Except that Facebook’s defaults show status updates to a LOT of people.
Paul…I don’t know if failbooks the website for you.
Failbook is a spectacularly wonderful site. I love making fun of actual fails on Facebook. This is not one of them.
Team Paul!
Nope. I don’t think you can handle the internet.
The internet makes fail permanent and you just can’t handle that.
paul, i just wanted to say… GO PAUL!
your 100% right
I agree with you Paul!
ITA with Paul here.
wow, I can’t believe she would brag about being pregnant at her 8th grade graduation.
That’s like bragging about getting an incurable STD after being sodomized in prison.
I’m not sure it’s a brag, you know… I mean, yes, she mentioned she had her daughter in 8th grade, but only in comparison to her own daughter, who I think it’s safe to assume is graduating sans pregnancy… perhaps in this case, it’s a parenting win?
1) Paul and the person above me are correct, this woman clearly gave her daughter a better life than she had as a girl. Therefore, not only is it not a fail, it is, in fact, a parenting win.
2) Having sex and making mistakes are both things every person does. Was it right for her to get pregnant at 14? That’s not for me to say. Why be ashamed of something when you’ve clearly handled it well.
3) If there is any fail here it’s in her choice of friends. Somebody had to upload this.
TEAM MOSES & PAUL.
I cannot say I agree with it being a ‘parenting win,’ but I concur with everything else. A child that succeeds is not -entirely- decided by the parent. Thus I believe in you declaring it a ‘parenting win’ seems to provide the mother with almost a heroic quality that I quite frankly find too far a reach with so little information.
If the standards of raising children have fallen so greatly that having your child reach beyond grade eight without becoming pregnant is a sudden achievement… then I openly apologize for being naive to such a change.
This.
Fair point. I wouldn’t mind giving the lady the benefit of the doubt and assuming that she did something right, even after the initial mistake. After all, parenting standards are falling (and, in a lot of cases, becoming more clinical with theories and the like), and our faith in the ability of young parents has gone out of the window along with that.
Rose tinted glasses? Probably.
2$ skank!
what makes anyone assume she is on welfare? she could have a job you dont know that. And I dont think she is proud of the fact she had a baby young I think she is proud her child graduated and isnt pregnant like she was. I agree with Paul.
wow childs 8th grade graduation about the time she could have had her undergraduate ceremony(perhaps masters if she went full time)…. thats scary
Did anyone else notice “my first born”? The fact that she had a kid when she was in 8th grade and then proceeded to have more kind of worried me. She’s probably around 26 now which means that it could be reasonable, but it’s also likely that the childrens’ ages are closer together, and a parent that young with two kids can be bad. Not always, but can be.
That’s still a fairly broad generalization with very little to back it up. 8th grade is young, but we don’t know the reasons behind her pregnancy. She could have had religious reasons for having unprotected sex, she could have been raped and didn’t want to get an abortion, or she could have genuinely wanted a baby. Nothing she has said indicates regret at least, only that she’s reflecting on the age (ie, she pointedly calls her her baby girl, effectively infantilizing her, when she at that age obviously felt mature enough to bring a child to term). If anything, it simply suggests that perceptions change when you have children, as well as the fact that we tend to have higher expectations for our children than we did ourselves (especially when they’re younger and the world is still full of possibilities for them).
In any event, there’s nothing to indicate that she was or is a bad mother and that she shouldn’t be having more kids. I had my first at 18 and the second at 21, and by 26 had already been working full-time for over 10 years. Some people simply elect to get started earlier in life than others. While statistics don’t always bear it out (vis-a-vis teen pregnancy), there’s certainly not sufficient cause to label her a welfare recipient that ought to have her tubes tied by the state out of hand.
Yeah, I noticed that too.
Hurray for bringing up a notion in which only empty assumptions can made of it.
this is kinda sad…
and who’s the person who liked this status? her name is too long for her to like it herself.
No, it’s sad that she got pregnant while in 8th grade. It is not said that she’s proud of her daughter, or that someone liked that she’s proud of her daughter.
The fail happened 13 years ago.
Damnit. “It is not *sad* that she’s proud of her daugther”.
*ahem*
“It is not *sad* that she’s proud of her *daughter*”.
If you are going to fix a spelling error, minus well fix both.
Thank you for your time
Oh, okay then. In that case, it’s “might as well fix both”, not “minus well”. Idiot.
Paul, I keep scrolling down the page and keep on seeing you going crazy. Relax.
Those with much free time tend to be like that. Fret not.
*snerk*
*Hugs Paul*
IDK it was “hug a troll-killer day”
I think Paul has personal issues very close to this. Is you mom only 13 years older than you?
An how do you know she OP isn’t already a grandmother and she’s proud her daughter is still in school.
Nice try, but false. Mom’s 21 years older than me.
Do you always assume the worst of people? That’s very, very sad.
It’s too bad that you can’t always assume the good either.
No, Paul just has a gleam of common sense, which is more than I can say for the “dur, she gots pregnant hur hur hur” comments that have been populating this thread.
Paul should stay away from this part of the internet, then.
No thanks. I’ll happily continue to do my best to weed through the ignorance and immaturity, and point out the meta-fails as I see fit.
marry me Paul.
Thank you, Paul!!!
You get a cookie!!!
*gives a cookie*
Yeah I’m with tehZEBRA. Marry me please.
Poor Paul. That stick up his butt must hurt terribly for him to be carrying on this way.
I think what Failbook is trying to say is that it’s not sure she should be proud of an 8th grade “graduation.” After all, any kid can “graduate” 8th grade if they annoy the teacher enough that they don’t want to deal with them anymore and pass them to get them out of their hair.
Clearly you spend no time in schools. 8th grade graduation has become a big deal. Any more schools host graduation ceremonies at kindergarten, 5th/6th grade (depending on when elementary school ends), and 8th grade. If you are in a Catholic school it tends to have even more importance since a lot of Catholic schools only go to 8th grade before they move on to the public high school.
Actually, I’ve spent nearly 15 years in schools, and have quite a few more years to go. Just because they make graduation from kindergarten, elementary school, or eighth grade “a big deal,” that doesn’t make it any less inane. There is so very little effort required to “graduate” these levels that it seems laughable to celebrate it.
That’s true. I went to a private catholic school, and it really wasn’t that hard to graduate. These days when I see the material being taught to kids at both primary and high school (public and private), it’s really appalling. But what’s even worse is that the kids are having trouble even with this material thanks to things like MTV.
I just finished the eighth grade. We didn’t even have an awards ceremony this year like we usually do. We certainly didn’t have a graduation ceremony. In fact, my last day of school was absolutely terrible, but that’s a whole different story.
I wonder how many of you know that it’s a FACT that the majority of teen pregnancies are the result of rape.
I agree on the failbook fail.
She’s proud of her daughter and is glad she isn’t dealing with what she had too.
i don’t doubt that they are. that’s why abortion is your friend.
*sigh* Abortion is -hardly- an ally. Why not try a tad of research on the bountiful aftereffects that such an action can present to a female – both biologically and emotionally. Many would love to believe abortion is simply a cakewalk as it allows one’s loathing to be easily justified, but I am here to squash such a trifling notion just for fun.
Have a nice day.
ooh! i’ve been shown up as beïng ignorant! silly me, i should’ve realised that abortions truly are so horrible that it’s actually better to have a baby whilst in middle school!
seriously, do you people listen to yourselves? i’m well aware that abortion’s no walk in the park–but it beats the hell out ov unprepared motherhood!
Did you even perform research? All I mentioned was that it is a gamble on either side and the way you portrayed abortion as being a ‘friend’ is incredibly misleading.
That’s it.
I merely took you phrased the latter portion of your post from before to mean that you had no real foundation on the subject.
Besides, my citation for how your, “i should’ve realised that abortions truly are so horrible that it’s actually better to have a baby whilst in middle school!” can be broken is from the actual content of the supposed ‘fail.’ She hardly seems to be as war torn as you seem to predict each and every person should be.
Yes, I will agree that it can be hard, but only the one pregnant can truly weigh those options for themselves and decide which is – to them – the better option.
But perhaps I am speaking out of place. *shrugs*
not a fail. this is a win. you tell ‘em paul.
It would seem to me that there is a bridge near by, or perhaps the trolls are just wondering too far away from their natural habitats. Has it occurred to any of you that, perhaps…just maybe, there was a typo? The 8 key and the 9 key are right next to each other. It is far more likely to think that she meant 9th grade graduation. However, the joke isn’t nearly as funny if you think of it like that.
Paul, you should just stop feeding the trolls. If you keep playing with them, they will keep following you. It’s a simple fact.
Perhaps, and this is just a wild guess here, people post things on failbook to be funny because of misunderstandings. I will direct you to seek out the post where the guy became of “I Love My Mom.” and “Wild, kinky sex.” It was a coincidence that the two ended up in the order that they did, and that’s what makes it funny. When you start to over analyze the joke, it quits being funny.
Just learn to laugh at it, and keep moving.
you could claim the 8/9 typo, however she did it twice.. which therefore suggests to me, that it is indeed correct with 8
How does making this 9th grade graduation as opposed to 8th grade change the meaning or context?
I agree with your very last sentence.
Umm…yeah, what? 8th or 9th grade makes no difference at all. Maybe you are the one who is over-analyzing.
In fact, who the heck has a “graduation” from 9th grade? Why would you even think she meant 9th?
Perhaps evidence of the Catholic school which teaches abstinence instead of protection…..
I never used to be surprised by anything, until I decided to waste some time on a web site that is supposed to be for wasting time. The outright hatefulness that is exhibited by many individuals is very unsettling, for many, your immaturity is showing. The one person who seems to be rational (Paul) is now the subject of personal attack; and this individual featured in what is, at best a mediocre post, is subject to ad hominem attack. To assume that the person is on welfare, failed grades, or even had consensual sex at such a young age is just plain silly. In addition, why is it that a person cannot reinvent themselves? If she is in the United States, that’s what we call “the American Dream.” To be able to overcome any disparity and make something of yourself. Based on the lack of context this post provides, you cannot know what the woman’s personal situation is. She should be proud that her daughter has made it through 8th grade (though, a graduation is pretentious at that level), and we shouldn’t pass judgement on her as a person, merely find the humor in the post itself. Shameful.
I think that last part is where the ‘problem’ lies. Some people find the post funny for derogatory reasons (or possibly other reasons I can’t encompass at the moment?) while others can’t find a reason that this contains humor at all.
Then, they clash into a war of attrition because the rationale ones wish to stomp on those that believe different to their ‘idea’ of reason and ethics while the other side just…
Well, you can determine that just by a mere glance. ^_^”
The fact that this welfare trash thinks that “graduating” from 8th grade is an accomplishment is hilarious enough. Add in a child in the 8th grade, and it’s like watching Precious. Too bad she was too dumb to have an abortion but maybe the spawn will make it to 9th grade before getting preggers, and making more welfare babies.
You are a sick, sick human being.
Tell me, what happened to your soul?
Trauma. Lots of trauma from a lack of adequate information and thus the loss of the ability to comprehend that they lack it.
you are a bitter, evil troll and i hope your hatefulness comes out of the black mire you crept out of to swallow you back up.
I only agree on the abortion part. Nothing else, really. You’re mostly being very rude.
Go Paul. It’s always nice to see intelligent people calling out idiots trying to be cute.
What difference does it make if she was 13, 14 or 15? Still too young to be having sex and having babies.
okay lets just break it down this way..
fail-she was a kid who had a kid..sadly common these days.. but it was 13 years ago and not the big issue here… let’s move on…
not a fail- she is proud of her child for graduating- yay for parental pride in one’s spawn!.. now that that is out of the way…
fail-people are nit-picking the post apart and calling it a fail because she acknowledged that she spawned when she was a teen… we all know kids having kids is a fail no matter how you look at it.. but that’s not the point here.. had this woman worded the status differently the post would have never made it to failbook.
fail-people are now furiously arguing over whether or not this post is a fail
so my conclusion?
this post was not a fail until everyone started picking it apart and began starting arguments over it.
“we all know kids having kids is a fail no matter how you look at it..”
I can see what you mean, but that single line just had me crack up. Hopefully, I won’t get eaten alive for laughing.
I wish Paul would f**king die cause he is a waste of air.
I… really don’t get how this is a fail. So she got pregnant young. It happens a lot.
My friend Dee got pregnant right after 8th grade graduation (fall of her Freshman year of high school). She kept the baby, got a job, got her GED, went to night school, and now is a works a full-time job, owns a home, and has raised two other kids as well, all three of them honor students.
I love making fun of the completely ignorant and ridiculous things people say on Facebook, but I really don’t see how this fits in.
Good for your friend Dee, but that’s not really something to be proud of IMO.
Damn, wish I went to school with her in middle school. Gotta love those whores…
Not a fail.
Some anonymous coward said: “Fail once, fail forever.”
Wow. Just wow. Hope he’s never done anything wrong, misguided, or foolish in his life, because, you know, now he’s full of eternal fail.
Just sayin’.
I hope you do not honestly believe the person is -entirely- incorrect. There are several mistakes that can come to haunt a person for the rest of their life on the internet.
Perhaps you should keep the context in how they said it so not to appear foolish. Though, I will not completely remove the notion that perhaps I simply read a different comment than you.
Team paul. GO Paul.
I touch my self when I feel sad.
Sounds like a girl I graduated Jr. High with she had the baby the same night of over Jr High graduation…. and then one in 10th grade and 11th grade and was pregnant again on our High school graduation… it isnt that strange to have pregnant in Jr high in small town with nothing for the kids to do but drink, do drugs and have sex
Paul….Were you a failed abortion?
Hai thar, judging from this post and your name, something tells me you are filled with some rage over someone you don’t know and just because they can’t agree with you. Should that be considered okay?
You go, 8th grade graduate! Your mama has every reason to be proud of you. Good luck in high school! Don’t let these evil trolls get you down. You just keep on doing what you are doing, and these next 4 years will fly by, and soon you’ll be off to college and really moving on up. Godspeed.
mama of the graduate, you’re doing just fine. Your baby is moving right along, and you should be proud–of her, and of yourself. keep it up, and keep your chin up. Godspeed to you as well.
I almost want to start playing Celtic Woman after reading this post. XD (Tis a compliment, btw.)
i’m pretty sure nothing involving celtic woman can possibly be a compliment.
Because the song “Someday” will never reverberate with any portion of your vastly decrepit soul… *pats* It’s okay. It’s okay.
wow. way to be an authority on my soul from the tiny slices ov knowledge ov me you have.
Twas a joke.
i hope so–i just googled the lyrics, and it’s nothing more than a poorly-written passive-voice version ov ‘we shall overcome’
All a matter of opinion – though that is a rather amusing comparison.
Thank God! Not everyone on the Internet is an idiotic troll!
*applauds*
I see no fail, I see no parenting win either. No go hide your shame, she may have been a young mother but it doesnt sound like she’s a bad mother in any way. And give it a rest about the welfare issue failbook is clearly not the place to vent your anger.
I’m tired of people feeling sorry for these types of women… It’s not okay that she got pregnant with her first child at such an early age… She can be proud of daughter but she herself knows wat she did was not something to be proud of. There are plenty of women who wait and get a career and make a nice family for themselves. Everyone makes mistakes and I’m not knocking her for that. I’m annoyed that she tells people (family or friends) about it like it was some kinda f**ken joke.
This whole thread is a fail.
was I the only one that noticed FIRST BORN? Does this imply that there are MORE?
Um. That is normally the case, yes.
There can be a second child and no further. You do realize this. This woman could have ten more kids for all we know. In the end, one can only assume blindly…
WHOOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I know, Right? Besides, have you SEEN 14 year old boys?
Hasn’t anyone else noticed that her grammar is reasonably correct (especially for Facebook) and that her spelling is spot on? I think she would be one of those young mothers who made a mistake and then stayed in the education system while raising the child. I also don’t think it’s tacky that she mentioned it since it would be in the context that she’s reflecting on where she was at the same age as her child.
Either way, it’s not exactly a win, but it’s certainly an example of a young mother who hasn’t allowed her child to continue down the same path she was heading.
This woman was a slut (who might still be a slut)and is proud of a daughter graduating 8th grade THE END
Whatever the age she had her first baby, her english and grammar skills are miles better than some of the university graduates I have as facebook friends…just saying
“Guess what, mommy? Not only am I going to to high school next semester, but you’re going to be a grandma!!!!”
The real question is, who celebrates 8th grade graduation? It’s not a big deal.
After reading this I came up with a question that should answer yours. The real question is, who celebrated your past success? It’s not a big deal judging from your question.
Could you imagine being a grandparent at 30?
Someone from my high school recently became a grandfather at 32.
Classy people.
In the end, the girl most likely got pregnant underage so who cares what age you are in 8th grade or in Britain by the sounds of it its 1st year high school or last year at primary school. Although we do not know the reasons why this occurred, it is still a shame to the world that it did for what ever reason. However, she appears to have done something right as apparently her child is not pregnant at that age and is able to graduate and do something with her life, but then again only time would tell. On the whole, it doesn’t matter I still found it rather amusing and shocking which I believe was the point of it!
dont worry, you will soon find out she will be posting the same exact thing many years from now