This post is purely confessional:  
I have a real, serious, prideful prejudice when it comes to stupidity.  
As you read on, you may think of me as a snobbish bitch.  
I'm sorry in advance.  I can't help it.

I just watched "the Secret Life of Women."  Today's episode was about child brides - brides of the 12-15 year old variety, in fact.  Is it any wonder that of all the girls interviewed, only one of the five could speak English in an understandable way?  There is a greater culture and language barrier in the hills of Kentucky and West Virginia than just about anywhere else on earth.  (The one girl who did speak proper English, by the way, happened to be Japanese - interesting....)

I suppose I'm not one to talk, being pregnant at pregnant and married myself by age 20 (in that order, too, horror!)  but I  (1) graduated high school and even attended a bit of college (2) speak clearly, in phonetically correct English and (3) have never sponged off my family or the government.   I was raised in the south....my family is from the mountains of North Carolina and I've never lived north of Virginia.   I have a distinct southern accent, which I think can be a fine thing (as long as you use correct grammar.)

Back to the child brides (or divorcees, depending on which teenager you are considering.)  It isn't the girls' fault.  How dare parents' bring children into this world and not do their best to guide them toward reaching their highest potential?  I am living proof that even the best laid plans go awry sometimes, but I turned out okay in the end (more or less) and I'm raising two wonderful children who, thus far, are wiser and more given to self-preservation than I was at their ages.  

I'm still given to stupid choices occasionally.  
It's part of my hell-on-wheels nature.  
But people who actually allow themselves to BE stupid and to breed more - often lots more - baby stupids, well, that's another thing entirely.