Another thread that sticks in my mind from years ago.
18 year old girl and her boyfriend have a baby while they are both in 6th form doing their A levels. The girl’s mother gives up her own job to care for the baby full time so they can both continue with their education.
Girl is going to study medicine which she could do at at a local university, while her mother continues to care for baby FT ( yup still giving up her job ).
However, girl decides that she wants to study at a more prestigious uni several hours drive away, and that her mother should look after baby all week, drive baby to her halls of residence on a Friday and then come back to collect baby on a Sunday.
( Because it’s not enough that she cares for baby 40 hours a week, she needs to do it 120 hours a week plus 12 hours of driving.)
And a hall of residence is such a great place to raise a baby/ toddler every weekend , she can have fun partying!
The best bit was the HOARDS of posters saying it was a great plan and attacking anyone who pointed out how shit it was for her mother and her child.
They claimed women were “ entitled to an education“ and self determination, clearly missing the fact that the mother was a woman too and also had rights. And that’s before we even start on the welfare of the child.
Posters were incandescent with rage about the selfishness of the grandmother when she didn’t want to go along with all this new proposal.
No one seemed to think that perhaps the baby’s father might have any role at all , even though he and the girl were still together. Because he needed an education dontcha know.
Anyone who suggested that they both might grow the fuck up and care for the baby they chose to make was told they were anti feminist and anti education.
Bizarre.