Motherhood Is Tough Enough, Without Bad Influences On Our Kids

Why you make poor decisions is every parent's nightmare. My brother got into an accident with a fatality when he was seventeen, and under the influence. The unscrubbed version, he was drunk and high, he ran a stop sign and killed a woman, she left two kids.

My parents never accepted it, they continue to believe he was set up, he wasn't drunk. The dead woman never had a chance to give her opinion. He is in jail and will be there for a long time. His life is ruined, the woman is dead, her kids lost their mother, our family carries the stigma.

Don't drink and drive isn't just a saying.

I have a younger cousin, got pregnant at fourteen, the father was fifteen. She got pregnant again at sixteen. She finally got a GED, the father is a worthless bum. He works selling telephones part time. He got another girl pregnant. Can't happen in your family, think again.

My husband and I are the custodians and guardians of her children. She's a bar waitress.

As a mother myself, I'm scared, worry all the time. I dream of my kids in college, not in the pen. I dream of weddings and baby showers, not judges and restraining orders.