Some Sympathy for one teenage mother

I could never understand why anyone would risk getting pregnant as a teenager - but you do have feel some sympathy for the teenage girl on last nights TV3 Documentary whose life revolved around caring for her extremely overweight mother. Duties included showering her mother and wiping her mothers bum after she went to the tiolet.

Dominion Post Television reviewer Jane Bowron puts it very well:

"Small wonder when she became pregnant at the age of 19, for that act of rebellion would eventually allow her to leave home. Even teenage pregnancy and ostracism from a mother who hated the father of her child and allowed him only a couple of hours a day in her home while Chrisana waited on her hand and bottom would be better than that obscene tyranny."

If pregnancy was the only way out of that nightmare I'd do it, too.