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The Special Role of Parenting in the Context of Poverty: The Case of Adolescent Motherhood1 |
He was two years old. He got to the point where he said I wasn’t his mom that I wouldn’t give him nothing. I said I’m your mom, I give you everything you want. And when I told him that at home I got smacked down myself. I told my mother you didn’t let anybody interfere with you raising your kids, don’t interfere with me. I told her, ‘yeah, I whip his butt, but I don’t child abuse him.’ Kids need their butt whipped while they are little cause you let them have their way, they will walk all over you … I love my child. If he was the last person on earth I would love him. He’s my heart. And like I told my mother, ...
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