Interesting that you assume that because you are in a town full of well-to-do individuals that these issues seem like they shouldn't exist. And maybe they shouldn't. Perhaps women of privilege should know better.
Perhaps though, bad decision-making knows no socioeconomic stratification. Women do this in rich parts of town for the same reason they do them in poor parts of town: many hitch their pony to a wagon before finding out if that wagon is going where they want to go. The only real difference in relationships between rich and poor people is the price of the make-up gift. Other than that, we're all just regular people. We respond to things in the same way and make the same types of blunders when it comes to affairs of the heart. Sure rich women end up with a diamond necklace when their men mess up and poor women end up with a rose, but the common denominator is that men mess up.
And women end up with bad guys or guys who don't really care for them as much as they hope.
Of course this all assumes that these women are victims here. There is an other side that states that maybe these women are in these situations (your determination of bad relationships is really subjective) because they want and choose to be. Maybe they wanted babies right now and decided that married or not, they were going to be mothers because they have the means to take care of a child.
So maybe what you're viewing as woe-is-me stories from Pine Valley are really independent woman stories straight out of a Destiny's Child album.
I don't know. But at the end of the day, people are people.
I agree, foolishness and bad judgment don't know any economic status...
agreed. don't forget no self esteem. i've seen a lot of wealthy kids that don't know who they are and get into all kinds of hot messes b/c their parents are too busy being socialites or working 100+ billable hours a week and never see them enough to actually parent them away from those choices.
Yep, had a dear friend who was in private schools and had everything you could want except parents who were their for him. He still hates his parents because he feels like his video games raised him more than they did. Lot's of resentment towards them, and he would sound very jealous when I mentioned my dad doing scouts with my brother, or my mom helping in our theatre.
Kind of the combination with my wife's parents. Her father worked to move up the party chain, her mom had to shmooze with wives of other party officials, which in turn helped him get promoted. They were able to have a very high standard of living - even by first world standards, it meant they often grew up without their parents being around. Her brothers and even her sister handled ok, they became successful business owners, my wife didn't deal with it well. She hated not having her parents and was kind of rebellious, almost unheard of in China back then.
She ended up getting pregnant as a teen, and in a case of irony, which was a crime on the books and in the 90s they were still enforcing those laws. Her old man had enough power to keep both of them from criminal charges, but part of being able to avoid criminal charges was they both had to marry, though neither were really in love with each other. They still managed to stay married for 10 years though. And I love and adore my stepdaughter.
What I was really trying to ask was why with all the free birth control available out there in this day and age are so many women not being responsible. It seems to me like its a dangerous trend. These next generations of children are going to be mostly "mistake children" that isn't fair to the kids or the parents. As much as we say men are equally responsible for not getting a woman pregnant, its ultimately up to the women to keep themselves from getting pregnant. I know many men who trusted their girlfriends when they said they were on birth control and then they ended up pregnant because they either weren't on birth control after all or they weren't keeping up with the doses. I think that is so unfair to men. Then to top it off if the men act in anyway like they didn't want a child yet and are upset they are labeled a douchebag. How is that fair? Celebrities are setting a bad example with this also. I just am a firm believer that before you have a child with someone both people should commit to each other and mutually decide to have a child. You said how do I know these relationships are rocky? Because women talk too much lol and spill every detail of their relationship to their friends so I actually do know that all these women that are pregnant are in bad relationships that aren't going to last, where the guy wasn't ready for a kid, he trusted his girlfriend and she betrayed that trust. I wish someone would stand up and write a news article about this scary trend, the consequences, and call our youth out on it.