No More Bin Laden

[kandrathe]

As a person who had a child as a teenager, I feel like I should chime in here, though I'm not sure if what I'm going to say has any bearing on the situation, or even really needs to be here.

Good insight. I was raised very conservative, but rebelled and was by 16 I was... promiscuous. My mom was worried about my partying, drinking but I don't think she knew about all the young women in my life. My dad was conservative, but he gave me mixed messages... you'd better be careful, and women are fragile, and then when some hot girl would drop me off at home at 2am he'd say, that's my boy... By 17, during the summer's I was hitting the regional horse showing, and rodeo circuit every weekend, competing and partying. At 18, I was at a college in the dorm, and they partied every weekend. At 19, my parents got divorced and my college funding dried up, and by that time I was burnt out on casual, meaningless relationships. But, in all the time I was... promiscuous, I never became a father, and I would call that plain lucky. There is much I would change about my teen years, were I to have them to do over again.