What's your take on Teen Pregnancy?

I was watching this show about girls who get pregnant really early and how it must feel to give up your own childhood because you give into peer-pressure or something. Honestly raising a kid is not an easy job for women so girls who are like 15/16 really take up a HUGE challenge by getting pregnant so early, I feel sorry for the parents of such kids since the pressure is obviously on them as well to provide for the kid as well as the their on child who has abruptly become a mother.

I know having a child is one of the best things that could happen to a couple but having it so early is just plain stupid, especially if you become pregnant accidentally, well I wouldn't really call it an accident since it's pretty obvious what would happen if you don't use protection. Here in the UK I have noticed that a lot of teens get pregnant, like a lot. I don't see why one is not more careful because you would need to give up your own childhood at that age, really sad :(

So whats your take OT? and do you know anyone who is at the age of 14,15 or 16 ad are pregnant?

It's sad. It is something that I've seen. Fourteen and fifteen year old girls that have already had a child, and to listen to a girl at such a young age talk about it is very shocking. They're so young, and they talk about having a baby very ignorantly and naively. It is not supposed to happen.

I laugh at them, for being idiots, in my opinion. I mean come on, the now-should-be-called-mother should have thought about what shell' have to go through now. Looking prego, buying baby clothes, being judged, maybe the boyfriend will leave, taking care of the baby, your career down the drain, ashamed parents, and more.

You could argue that actually the mother is in the best possible physical shape to give birth in her late teens. There's nothing wrong with it as long as the parents are emotionally and intellectually mature enough to provide for the child.

Western parents seem to be getting ever-older when they have their first children, while other cultures are having children at ages where birth defects are far less common. It's impossible to be sure whether the cause of our stagnant population growth in the UK is ultimately economic, but I'd hazard a guess that low youth income has some effect on many couples' decisions as to how serious a decision havong a child is.

Forbidden now? 50 years ago parents would disown their daughter if she came home pregnant at 15. Now, most parents become live-in babysitters for them.FragStains

As long as the baby is safe and healthy, I couldn't give a **** about the parents

I feel more sorry for the kids than the parents in this regard. They usually suffer for the mother's loose legs more than she does. I've seen a lot of cases where the kid is totally pushed off on the grandparents, with the mother and father becoming more like an aunt or uncle. I give a lot of respect for young parents that own up to it and make the sacrifices they are called upon to make, but respect and pity really can't flow from the same fountain. Second_Rook

I feel more sorry for the kids than the parents in this regard. They usually suffer for the mother's loose legs more than she does. I've seen a lot of cases where the kid is totally pushed off on the grandparents, with the mother and father becoming more like an aunt or uncle. I give a lot of respect for young parents that own up to it and make the sacrifices they are called upon to make, but respect and pity really can't flow from the same fountain. Second_Rook

My take is I can't believe I'm not getting any of that.... :PJazz_Fan

People who have babies while in their teens are idiots. Their life, unless they are rich idiots, will be effectively ruined. There is always adoption, or abortion, but that is hardly the point.super_mario_128

[QUOTE="super_mario_128"]People who have babies while in their teens are idiots. Their life, unless they are rich idiots, will be effectively ruined. There is always adoption, or abortion, but that is hardly the point.clayron

[QUOTE="clayron"][QUOTE="super_mario_128"]People who have babies while in their teens are idiots. Their life, unless they are rich idiots, will be effectively ruined. There is always adoption, or abortion, but that is hardly the point.super_mario_128

People who have babies while in their teens are idiots. Their life, unless they are rich idiots, will be effectively ruined. There is always adoption, or abortion, but that is hardly the point.super_mario_128

Perhaps you should take into account the children that are born into abusive families and aren't properly taught obedience and abstinence. Sometimes it isn't the kid's fault. It's something that they're born into.

Irresponsible doesn't even begin to describe it, imo.

Perhaps you should take into account the children that are born into abusive families and aren't properly taught obedience and abstinence. Sometimes it isn't the kid's fault. It's something that they're born into.

You are making assumptions.clayron

[QUOTE="Second_Rook"]I feel more sorry for the kids than the parents in this regard. They usually suffer for the mother's loose legs more than she does. I've seen a lot of cases where the kid is totally pushed off on the grandparents, with the mother and father becoming more like an aunt or uncle. I give a lot of respect for young parents that own up to it and make the sacrifices they are called upon to make, but respect and pity really can't flow from the same fountain. jimmyjammer69

[QUOTE="super_mario_128"] Moreso generalisations than that.clayron

Pretty silly and avoidable. I guess most of the time people get caught up in the moment and don't do simple things such as condoms or pulling out :P. Oh well not my concern anyway.

I think more needs to be done to educate teens about sex and how to do it safely.bluezy

I call teen pregnancy a birth control fail.

[QUOTE="clayron"][QUOTE="super_mario_128"] Moreso generalisations than that.super_mario_128

A really good friend of mine is pregnant.The baby's coming in November.She refused abortion.
I was pissed off,because she was pregnant.I'm over it.I still think it's stupid,she's young,incompetent,just not able to raise a child.
Her boyfriend left her.
She just turned 18 also.Got pregnant when she was 17.

[QUOTE="clayron"][QUOTE="super_mario_128"] Moreso generalisations than that.super_mario_128

it shameless propaganda,about 100-200 years ago girls as young as 11 were encouraged to become mothers and people started prostitution at 12,the gov then raised the age to 14 to try to stop peeps starting it as a profession and then again to 16 so it is by no way a new problem

Don't have sex if you don't want a baby.

I'm 26 and I don't even think I could deal with a kid.

I can't imagine how overwhelming it would be for a girl in her teens who is still a child herself.

There's no reason for teen pregnancy here, there are tons of methods of birth control, and if the girl does get pregnant, there are TONS of people waiting to adobt a baby, there's zero reason for her to keep the child. I have no sympathy for people who are like "I had a baby at 16, my life is all messed up because of it".

[QUOTE="super_mario_128"][QUOTE="clayron"] Based on what?jimmyjammer69

If you can't handle the pleasure and/or responsibility of sex, then don't have it. Teens get pregnant all the time, even teen stars on tv have been getting pregnant and i think it's ridiculous. They do it then they **** about it like someone is suppose to feel sorry for them, well guess what, i'm not one of them. If you can't handle the fact that your taking a chance on getting pregnant, knowing that the precautions are not 100% of the time, don't do it, simply Don't Do It.

its a sad thing, really

First of all, I really do not care. What people do in their own lives is their business. Secondly, I never saw the big deal. People have always gotten pregnant at young ages. It just seems so forbidden, and shunned now.clayron

[QUOTE="Andrew_Xavier"][QUOTE="jimmyjammer69"]I don't see how having kids over choosing to abort is in any way selfish. jimmyjammer69

As per higher chance of birth defects, I agree, a 16 year old does carry a SIGNIFIANCTLY higher chance of giving birth to a baby with birth defects than a 30 year old, and about on par with a post-menstral pregnancy, so it could be argued that it is selfish on that level as well.

It usually doesnt work out very well from what ive seen.

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