Prymface is about Promoting Respect for Young Mothers and challenging the stereotypical view of teenage parents that seems to encourage judgment and discrimination simply based on age.
Prymface is for young mums who feel they don't fit into the box that others try to put them in, or the mums who are told they are the 'exception to the rule' and you wonder what the rule is based on, or who decided the criteria for the box, or why there even needs to be a bloody box.
'Teenage' is just an age group, it doesn't mean single, uneducated, poor or 'chav'! Demonising all teenage parents is often just an ignorant way of looking down on other people and for some reason, this seems to be a socially acceptable form of discrimination!
For me, having my son at 17 enabled me to spend the first 4 years of my son's life studying (which is so much more flexible than a job, as long as you're prepared to write essays through the night!) and then to be able to start working part time when he started school. So you'll have a job trying to convince me I did it the wrong way round!
Maybe setting up Prymface is a reaction to turning 30 next month and finding that, while I can list all the things I've done to justify my existence, I still sometimes feel like the 16 year old walking from college to antenatel classes wondering where the hell I fit in!
Enjoy!
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(May 2009)
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