Girl, about 19, overheard on a private balcony in a West London flat talking to a boy of similar age.
~ Tuesday 17th August 2010, 6.00pm
"You wouldn’t believe it, but our pregnancy rate at X school is ¼ of the pregnancy rate of Y school. The guys literally go out with one girl during the day, and they go out shagging at night."
[Boy mumbles]
"No no I’ve heard about this. There are chavs who get engaged after knowing each other for three months, like, who are our age. My boyfriend wants kids when he’s like 22, 23. I want one when I’m like, 29. I wouldn’t get rid of it after 27 you know what I mean. But I want to get to married older. I want to have a career. If I had less ambition…"
Voices
adultery
(1)
Aussies
(1)
boys
(1)
brothers
(1)
bus
(1)
business men
(1)
cafe
(2)
chavs
(1)
Chiswick
(1)
debt
(1)
domesticity
(1)
football
(1)
imaginings
(1)
ironing
(1)
marriage
(1)
Merry Go Round
(1)
mobile phone
(1)
pregnancy
(1)
School of Life
(1)
stalking
(1)
stranger
(1)
stress
(1)
tattoos
(1)
therapy
(1)
tube
(1)
Waterstones
(1)
West London
(1)
woman
(1)
YA
(2)
youth
(1)
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Is it because of the social housing?
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