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Wickatricka

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So I live in a pretty small town and whenever I go to school there seems to be more and more girls between the age of 14-16 getting pregnant. I think its pretty stupid, the girls are throwing their life away but they all think its cool and sweet and it makes them more popular. I'm just like wtf? So do you guys think teen pregnancy is bad or good and why so?
 

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It just is really, it's always going to happen. Though the one's I've seen were mostly accidental with the girls not being okay with abortion, in which case thinking it's okay is really the only option that's healthy for both the mother and child.
 

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With all due respect toward your town's inhabitants, these girls are idiots in my opinion. They seem to not realize the impact that a baby can and will make on someone's life; someone who hasn't even gone through high school or college yet. It's really quite sad seeing such ignorance in today's generation, and I'm glad that the girls I've dated have never acted like this.

My advice when you're looking for a partner: Stay away from them, and find a girl who isn't so obsessed with this idea of being popular if it means throwing away their lives. The mentality that they are displaying is not healthy, and will inevitably impact them, their family, their friends, and their future boyfriends in the long run.

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xmbts said:
It just is really, it's always going to happen. Though the one's I've seen were mostly accidental with the girls not being okay with abortion, in which case thinking it's okay is really the only option that's healthy for both the mother and child.
Alright, you brought up a great point that I overlooked, but I've got to say something about this particular situation. If they were raped or something, yet were against abortion, I can see them keeping the baby, even at such a young age. However, the way these girls are acting, it seems to me that this was completely voluntary. Just sayin'.
 

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"Good luck."

I don't feel the need to bash teenage girls for getting pregnant. What happens, happens.

I just hope they have a good plan.

They're gonna need it.
 

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TLS14 said:
Alright, you brought up a great point that I overlooked, but I've got to say something about this particular situation. If they were raped or something, yet were against abortion, I can see them keeping the baby, even at such a young age. However, the way these girls are acting, it seems to me that this was completely voluntary. Just sayin'.
They could just be putting on a brave face for it, don't get me wrong I know there are girls who go into it for all the wrong reasons but I wouldn't say they're the majority of it.
 

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TLS14 said:
With all due respect toward your town's inhabitants, these girls are idiots in my opinion. They seem to not realize the impact that a baby can and will make on someone's life; someone who hasn't even gone through high school or college yet. It's really quite sad seeing such ignorance in today's generation, and I'm glad that the girls I've dated have never acted like this.

My advice when you're looking for a partner: Stay away from them, and find a girl who isn't so obsessed with this idea of being popular if it means throwing away their lives. The mentality that they are displaying is not healthy, and will inevitably impact them, their family, their friends, and their future boyfriends in the long run.
yeah. i hate seeing the people in my area with 5 year old kids who are probably 23, look about 60 and live on dole money.
 

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This is the reason I scoff every time I hear a 12 year old talk about their boyfriend/girlfriend.
 

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Wickatricka said:
So I live in a pretty small town and whenever I go to school there seems to be more and more girls between the age of 14-16 getting pregnant. I think its pretty stupid, the girls are throwing their life away but they all think its cool and sweet and it makes them more popular. I'm just like wtf? So do you guys think teen pregnancy is bad or good and why so?

My opinion/knowledge: Teen Pregnancy doesn't help the standard of living anywhere that it happens. If girls don't become pregnant, they'll focus on careers and contribute to the economy. This way later in life they'll actually be able to support children when they actually want them.

Also, babies born to teen parents who don't want them(which is usually the case) are more likely to become criminals. Being unwanted for your whole childhood doesn't make people very sane.

Teen pregnancy can be curbed by educating people about birth control and abortion, and making those things readily available. This is why countries that are very liberal about their sex-ed programs like Denmark, Germany, The Netherlands, etc, barely have any teen pregnancy.

My advice towards your situation: When/if you look for a partner to have sex with, provide your own birth control. Look for a more career-oriented girl who doesn't want a kid until she's at least 30. If this is the popular thing with 80% of the girls in your town, try to move out soon, since it suggests certain other negative qualities about the place.
 

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Oooh, there was a girl in high school (she was eighteen) that was pregnant! It was lovely, really. In her case, she went through the year like nothing was wrong, she got good grades and when the baby was born all the class brain-stormed to find a name for the kid.

This is to say, I don't see what the problem is.

No, I'm not saying "let our poor, innocent teenagers have children" and no, it's not the choice I would have done. I'm saying that if they chose to keep the baby and are happy with it, why should it bother you?

I mean, you are fifteen and pregnant. Whatever. It's not age that makes a good parent- and besides, it's not like it means that "omg you can forget every kind of dream you had forever", it just means that it's, well, a little bit more difficult to reach. Not impossible: difficult.

Or maybe they'll be happy just with the kid. Dude, it's not like everyone cares about being a big shot and having lots of money and going to university and whatever.

And c'mon, now, what do you prefer: a happy pregnant teenager, or an angsty annoyance that keeps repeating "bu-uh, not me, why did this happen to me?" every day, on loop, 'til the end of time?
 

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TrilbyWill said:
TLS14 said:
With all due respect toward your town's inhabitants, these girls are idiots in my opinion. They seem to not realize the impact that a baby can and will make on someone's life; someone who hasn't even gone through high school or college yet. It's really quite sad seeing such ignorance in today's generation, and I'm glad that the girls I've dated have never acted like this.

My advice when you're looking for a partner: Stay away from them, and find a girl who isn't so obsessed with this idea of being popular if it means throwing away their lives. The mentality that they are displaying is not healthy, and will inevitably impact them, their family, their friends, and their future boyfriends in the long run.
yeah. i hate seeing the people in my area with 5 year old kids who are probably 23, look about 60 and live on dole money.
Is it a common trait around there? If so, you may want to get out of that place and find greener pastures ASAP. Place doesn't sound pleasant in the slightest.
 

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My sister became a teenaged mother at the age of 15. (Her second child has been born and she's now 19.) I don't like it but it's also on a case by case basis. Her partner is in the military and they're doing fine. Personally she's a better parent than I am and I was a little bit older than her when my daughter was born. (I was 21 and had two years of college under my belt.)
 

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well teen pregnacnys 99.99 percent of time being a bad thing with worse outcomes i'm agaisn't it, seriously not that hard to wear a condom.
last thing if the father stays with the mum you just know at one point in there life father and son are going to look up at each other on opposite sides of table both doing homework
 

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personally I don't believe people who aren't old enough to vote, drive, drink, or fight for their country should be having sex anyways
 

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Shockolate said:
"Good luck."

I don't feel the need to bash teenage girls for getting pregnant. What happens, happens.

I just hope they have a good plan.

They're gonna need it.
If they were good at planning, they wouldn't be pregnant :/.

OT: It's just a really terrible idea. A friend of mine got his gf pregnant at 18. Was gonna go to university, but he ended up working in carpentry with his uncle, because he needed money immediately to support the child. Didn't help that he was considering dumping the girl when she got pregnant.

The argument that women are having children later, because they interfere with having a career, is even more relevant to getting an education. It essentially ruins your life and, of the 3 girls I've met who had kids during their teens, not a single one doesn't regret it. Granted, that's a limited sample size, so I don't expect that to be true for all women.
 

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Getting pregnant in your teens intentionally is stupid. Yeah, I know, I can't generalize everyone who makes a decision like that and there are some perfectly fine moms out there who had their first kids when they were 16 and blah blah, but I can't think of any reason that justifies not waiting until your in a more appropriate stage of life to have kids.

As far as accidental teen pregnancies, well it's still stupid because you probably should've been more careful, but shit happens to the best of us, I suppose. I'll feel far more willing to help out a teenager who accidentally got pregnant as opposed to one who intentionally get pregnant, though.
 

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Wickatricka said:
So I live in a pretty small town and whenever I go to school there seems to be more and more girls between the age of 14-16 getting pregnant. I think its pretty stupid, the girls are throwing their life away but they all think its cool and sweet and it makes them more popular. I'm just like wtf? So do you guys think teen pregnancy is bad or good and why so?
It tends to bother me when they get on as though they planned it all along. That young, I think it's incredibly silly and to be fair, they shouldn't have been carrying on like that in the first place being as young as fourteen, eugh.


SwimmingRock said:
Shockolate said:
"Good luck."

I don't feel the need to bash teenage girls for getting pregnant. What happens, happens.

I just hope they have a good plan.

They're gonna need it.
If they were good at planning, they wouldn't be pregnant :/.

OT: It's just a really terrible idea. A friend of mine got his gf pregnant at 18. Was gonna go to university, but he ended up working in carpentry with his uncle, because he needed money immediately to support the child. Didn't help that he was considering dumping the girl when she got pregnant.

The argument that women are having children later, because they interfere with having a career, is even more relevant to getting an education. It essentially ruins your life and, of the 3 girls I've met who had kids during their teens, not a single one doesn't regret it. Granted, that's a limited sample size, so I don't expect that to be true for all women.
Yeah, definitely. Especially considering it's pretty much expected nowadays. What they're doing is a bit dated. ;P

Though, I do agree with a few people; no need to 'bash' them and stress them out but at the same time, I don't think they should be getting much praise either...

Stew Coard said:
personally I don't believe people who aren't old enough to vote, drive, drink, or fight for their country should be having sex anyways
Exactly. Not to mention they get boosted up on the housing executive list, Ffs. *grumbles*


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Shockolate

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SwimmingRock said:
Shockolate said:
"Good luck."

I don't feel the need to bash teenage girls for getting pregnant. What happens, happens.

I just hope they have a good plan.

They're gonna need it.
If they were good at planning, they wouldn't be pregnant :/.
Yes, because having a teenage child makes a person instantly a complete moron.

Cool generaization bro.

There's absolutely no reason that given certain circumstances that a teenager can not be a good parent.

And since I'm leaving for the weekend right about now, don't expect a response if you quote me.
 

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It's not ideal, but people will always do it. The thing that depresses me the most is that girls (and guys too actually) I used to know at school who were horrible, bitchy, obnoxious, nasty pieces of work are having kids now. I'm trying to be optimistic and hope they turned over a new leaf by time they had the baby because if you're a horrible person, you're going to be a horrible parent.

My sister had a baby at 15, and I have to admit she was a terrible parent to the extent of her being threatened the baby was going to be taken away if she didn't buck her ideas up. Thankfully, she got much better at parenting and is due another baby in 3 weeks, she's 23 now. I'm hoping she's going to be much better this time round although I'm always happy to help.