are busy bodies (usually women) telling her how to handle a situation not their own - namely, dealing with the ongoing drama of a 40 year old tottler who refuses to man up and get a job. And keep at it. These smug little ... witches neither take into consideration, family nor societal background. It's common enough knowledge that, number one, there are way too many parents who simply can't be bothered to teach their kids - their daughters, especially - to set and maintain boundaries. In other words, if jasper won't trouble himself to come to the door, but instead remains on his duff honking his horn - bad sign. Seventeen year old girls are clueless, and need things expounded, slowly, in simple language.
By the way, that marriage ended back in the mid '70s; the jasper - whose claim to fame was a muscle car and his glory days playing high school football - was more focused on boozing than on working. All's i know is, jasper's wife didn't earn enough money, as a secretary, to maintain the trailer payments, lot rent (which, half a century ago, was like $60 a month) heating fuel, groceries... Think the last straw was jasper's tantrum - but anyway, wasn't there.
Could have been worse, she could have ended up baby-TRAPPED by ... that. But instead, several years later, she married up. That is, she married smart. Oh, and she kept on working, going to bed at respectable hours, and getting the promotions - because she did the research and checked the figures.
And yeah, there's the judgies (more busy bodies) ranting against birth control pills - which do, in fact, cause abortion; life does, in fact, begin at conception. That all said, what doesn't get said enough is: will those same busy bodies open their wallets - instead of their smug little yaps? Diapers aren't cheap.
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