The first person I interviewed was my friend Stephen, although we didn't meet in person since he lives in New Jersey I was able to Skype with him. Stephen is in a very interesting predicament since teen pregnancy is not very rare in his school. Stephen attends North Plainfield High School in New Jersey. According to Stephen there are four pregnant girls in his grade alone. That's something I've never even heard of. Anyway I began to ask Stephen what he thought about pregnancy, babies, and becoming a parent. I was expecting Stephen's responses to connect to his own daily experience and interactions with pregnant girls in school. Stephen went on to say " Becoming a parent is a huge responsibility, not just with humans but with all animals throughout the planet. It's something you truly have to be ready for. I understand accidents happen but that's what we have the morning after pill, condoms, and abortion for. Now for babies well babies are basically born innocent they didn't ask to be here so I feel as if it's whatever two people who made them's responsibility to care for it. I always try my best to be patient and compassionate to babies since they really don't know any better than to do what they do." This was extremely interesting to me and quite similar to what I would have said. From Stephen's comment we can tell he's pro abortion as well as me. He think's becoming a parent is a huge responsibility with all species on Earth. This is something you don't hear very often.
The second person I interviewed was this lady on the train her name was Victoria. She appeared to be a 21 year old middle to high class Caucasian lady with what appeared to be an African American husband I was sitting on the train when all of a sudden a lady offers her seat to this lady who was pregnant. She gladly accepted her offer and her husband who was close behind her sincerely thanked the woman who offered up her seat. I was observing the conversation when all of a sudden I realized this could become my history project and I could practice my social skills and try talking to a stranger. I was fairly confident since I placed myself closer to the more social skills side of the spectrum. I used my natural charm, made sure to smile a lot, and attempted to sum up things she said so she would be more likely to let me interview her. Turns out it worked. I took out my I touch and recorded the whole conversation. Isabella thoughts on pregnancy were " Being pregnant is much more of a burden than it is a blessing. These 7 months have been so stressful. My sleep has been depleted drastically, I've been way to moody, and I have to worry about two lives which is twice as much work." Isabella's thoughts on becoming a parent were " This is basically a new chapter in my life giving birth and having children is more like an obligation to me. I feel as if I'm doing good for the human population."
Although I didn't interview that many people, it seems like one of the patterns in this generation as far as birth is concerned is that babies are innocent, you have to be extremely patient with them, and compassionate, pregnancy is a burden not a blessing, it's very stressful, you don't get as much sleep which can have a variety of negative effects, you become more moody, and you have to worry about two lives. Becoming a parent seems to be a serious responsibility,you have to truly be ready for parenting, and it's essentially a new chapter in your life. I would assume that the reason for this is because many children from my generation come from single parent households, and they want to strive and be better than their parents by addressing the issues and trying to rise above them . All of my interviewees support the option of abortion because accidents really do happen, so does rape, and sometimes people have to many children due to multiple kids being born at once twins etc . This was a very enlightening homework assignment.
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