Thoughts on “Precious,” and the thousands like her
We’re looking forward to seeing the Oprah Winfrey/Tyler Perry production of “Precious” probably about as much as the filmmakers are. That’s because we see in the lead character of Precious a struggling young woman, full of potential, who is much like the young women served by our Crittenton family of agencies every day.
In support of the many, many young women who struggle with sexual and physical abuse, homelessness, teen pregnancy and violence, we are launching an online story telling campaign in the next few weeks designed to give voice to young women who have none. We’ll be asking for user-contributed videos of stories and thoughts from women—young, old, wealthy, struggling, from all kinds of backgrounds and ethnicities—in order to highlight the support young mothers @ the margin so badly need. We’re also asking participants to write to Congress and First Ladies to urge them to be advocates.
Here’s a sneak preview of our campaign website, and some of the video stories we’ve already collected. We’ll post more of these videos as the campaign progresses, but if you have a story to tell, visit the website and learn how you, too, can give voice to young mothers @ the margin.
I’m a young mother myself and seeing the movie precious inspired me to keep on moving no hard the struggles. Precious should be an inspiration to a lot of girls because some people think their life is such an struggle but they really haven’t handled the problems that she had endured in her life. Two parents that doesn’t love her and have two children she’s very strong and powerful and I hope you think so too.
I think the movie was very intense and emotional but still funny. I’m a young mother myself but I really couldn’t compare my situation to hers. I think it was good how she handled it. I like how the movie made me cry, and then made me laugh in the end. I loved the way the people acted — they acted good!