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Name: | Beth Pickering |
Age: | 21 |
Year of the Fix: | 2011 |
Location: | Bridgwater |
Campaign: | To get young mums treated with respect |
I am a young mum, giving birth to my first child when I was just 18-years-old.
I love my daughter, May, and am thankful for her in my life, and try each day to be the best parent I can for her.
However, I feel young mums are stereotyped by many people in society.
People are usually quite quick to judge young mums, whether they are single or not, and often people think you are just having children to ‘cheat the system’.
I want to change this misconceptions. Being a mum is difficult, no matter what age, and it was my aim to have all young mums treated with respect.
I did this via an Easter Fun Day in Bridgwater, Somerset, which gathered children and parents from all over the town together for a day of activities and socialising, to show people that parents of all ages are always doing the best they can.
Here is a list of Fixers helping me with my Fix:
Alexandra Causer
Lizzie Ward
Shak & Natasha
Ben Simms
Hafsa Ur-Rehman
Mason Latey
Hannah Carter
Becky
Me and my friends want young people to know that calories aren't the enemy!
Fixers
Mary-Anne White and Lucy Wills
Alexandra Garrick
'Ben'
Jack H
Jo Quinn
Fern Lulham
Lauren Taylor
Becky Thorn
Olivia G
Shano
Sam Barakat
Hannah Baker