“If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.”
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Our youth deserve the opportunity to complete their high school and college education, free of early parenthood. Their future children deserve the opportunity to grow up in financially and emotionally stable homes. Our communities benefit from healthy, productive, well-prepared young people.
I feel like my honesty gives people the freedom to talk about things they wouldn't otherwise.
Children born to teens have less supportive and stimulating environments, poorer health, lower cognitive development, and worse educational outcomes. Children of teen mothers are at increased risk of being in foster care and becoming teen parents themselves, thereby repeating the cycle.
It's hard for women at my age in Hollywood, but I'm not discouraged.