Sometimes I hate it here
So I hop over to The Dallas Morning News website to see what's shakin', I'm bored and work has slowed down a bit since this morning, so I figure I can get away with reading the newspaper online without looking like I'm slaking too much. Right off the bat I spot an article with an odd name "Teen mother's 5th is cause for pity, not party" by Jacquielynn Floyd. Curious I read the article and find out it's about a young woman who gave birth to quadruplets, two sets of identical twins, at 18 and now at 19 is having a fifth child.
Ms. Floyd discusses how this is a pitiful story, about how teenage pregnancy is a cycle of poverty and how the teen in question faces a long, hard road, blah, blah, blah. I don't disagree with her on any of that, the heart cringes as you read this article, both for the mother and the children. I can't imagine what their lives must be like and simply can't fathom being in that situation. I sincerely hope and pray that things work out for the best. Ms. Floyd also mentioned that all the children were fathered by the same man.
This is where I got a little upset or bewildered, maybe both. I'm a little puzzled as the article, and another that basically tells the same story, doesn't put much focus on this man. It goes to great lengths to explore all the other aspects of the situation, but this guy who it seems to me is the root of all evil…so to speak. I learned from the article that this guy was 27 and married when he started wooing a 17 year old girl. Now that he's given her five children he doesn't support them financially at all, nor does he even involve himself in their lives, at least to no significant level.
Is it just me? Or does this dick-smack sound like a total fucking scum bag? Yeah sure the girl bears some responsibility. After all it takes two to tango, but sweet Jesus, she's seventeen. Remember when you were seventeen? Yeah, you didn't know shit. Not only is this fuck-wad married and 27, he hits on teenage girls, fucks them, gets them pregnant and then leaves them. But wait there's more! He goes back and does it again! Why is this guys head not on a gawddamned pike?
The grandmother of the young lady even says that her granddaughter was lonely and vulnerable after her mother moved away. So this guy, Jimmy Calabrese slinks in and exploits her…he fucking uses her…does all the right things to get what he wants and leaves her with four, now five, kids. The level of his evil, irresponsible, malicious behavior here simply staggers my mind beyond rational thought.
I know, I know, there's no laws, no way to prosecute. I think the saddest thing, and I speak from a male point of view here, is the following stat: Almost 80% percent of the dirt-bags who get teenage girls pregnant don't marry those girls AND they pay less than $800 annually in child support. I could probably get over the not marrying part, but the lack of financial support is beyond comprehension and the fact there is obviously no way to make them pay is flabbergasting. This is what we're teaching young men these days?
Getting back to my main point, why doesn't the article roast this guy? They seemingly brush over it, but don't point any fingers or make any scathing comments; and it would seem to me that this is an opportune time for some scathing and finger pointing! I guess you can't bash a whole gender though, at least in the newspaper, but I can fucking say something about it. Even as a straight guy there's a lot that men do that drives me nuts, but it's this kind of shit that just makes me ill. It's times and situations like these that I think public floggings would benefit our society immensely.