Salon.com Life | No way out

There were letters in response to your piece in the New York Times Magazine that essentially said, "These people should not be having babies." What do you think of this response?

Having children is not a class privilege. The moments in the book when people become pregnant and people are born are part of a lifeline. We like to freeze the frame of this lifeline at the moment when a girl gets pregnant, because that is the moment when you can turn the story of social injustice into a personal blaming session. As if you can pinpoint the social problem on a single person, and then you can get into that whole useless discussion about "choice."

from an interview of adrian nicole leblanc, about her new book "random family: love, drugs, trouble, and coming of age in the bronx".

(suck it up and go click through the ads. it's a good interview.)