The Mistakes of Our Fathers
February is Teen Dating Awareness Month so let’s talk about parents.

The heavy wooden door slammed behind me one July night in 1991 with my mother’s warning at my back, ”you’re going to wind up pregnant and never to go to college!”. As the oldest of four, my mother had long misdirected her dissatisfied anger at me. I knew early on that my parents got pregnant with me while in their late teens and married because of…