Young Women Juggle Motherhood, College

Sherrill Mosee was raised by a single mother who was forced to give up her dream of going to college. Mosee says, “My mother was a teenage mother at the age of 16. She worked really hard while she was in high school to go to college. She was accepted at Penn State University in Pennsylvania. When she showed the college acceptance letter to her mother, my grandmother, looked at her and said, ‘You’re not going anywhere. Your college education is standing right in front of you,’ talking about my brother.”
She thought about value of an education when her stepdaughter became pregnant during her first year in college. “For years, there was a decline in teen pregnancy, I believe between 1991and about 2005. Then in 2006, there was this sharp increase. So there were almost about half a million teens who become pregnant in the United States. Statistics tell us that less than half, about 40 percent of teenage mothers will graduate high school. So, when you think about that, without an education they are unable to care for their family.” she says. Mosee helped her stepdaughter complete her education and in 1998, she created Family Care Solutions, a non-profit group that helps low-income single women pay for childcare so they can attend school.
I think this is difficult problem. It is no easy task to taking care of children with going to college or other school. Not only NPO or NGO like Mosee created, but government should help single mother of teenage. But the most important thing I think is to think about own livelihood and taking care of children before pregnant.