What do you guys think about teen pregnancy?

[2733]

ah, babies making babies. yet another thing I try hard to ignore as much as possible.

 

[Gamer_152]

I wouldn't mind if it seemed like an informed choice, but I've yet to see a single situation where it is. The exact reason those girls see it solely as "cool" and "sweet" is because they probably don't have a realistic perspective on life as a whole and probably aren't thinking in the long term. In situations like these it's often the baby I feel sorry for, too many times it seems the child grows up with parents too inexperienced to give it a good upbringing.

 

[Iffat Nur]

Well you can't stop it from happening, but I think it's a really dumb decision to make. You shouldn't be needing to have a baby when high school is in your way. My dad told me her sister only got married at 13. Granted, that was tradition and not because of teen pregnancy (forgot the exact reason), but people who end up getting married at that age are in for a huge investment. For a women, children will generally (emphasis on generally) take up a lot of resources in their life, and being a child while raising a child puts too much pressure on a person.

 

[The Lesbian Flower]

I don't find teen girls getting pregnant to be the end of the world. However, pregnancy and parenthood are two different things. A teen can have an unwanted pregnancy and not be a parent. She can have it aborted or she can give the child away. An unwanted pregnancy can happen to anyone who can bear children and has sex. Unwanted parenthood is not a actual thing because one is always able to relinquish their parental rights through adoption.

Unwanted pregnancy is a problem but what is more deplorable in this situation is the teens choosing to be mothers.

 

[MASTACHIEFPWN]

Condoms break all the time.

Not this brand But then again... they are the reason for a lot of people's births...

OT: Can you really blame them for giving into what there body wants? Yes it is a stupid mistake, but we are programmed to do it... heheh... I made an unintended pun rite thar.

So yeah, it's kind of there fault, but it is also natures fault.

 

[xdiesp]

I think that it happens all over the world, quite naturally, and Mary was 15-16 when she had Jesus. \

 

[smurf_you]

Honestly I think it depends, my mom got pregnant with me through *2* forms of birth control (the pill and something else, I don't remember which) at 18, and she's now a project manager at a new company making more money than I think I ever will, and she once told me that if she hadn't have had me then, she probably wouldn't have had kids at all..... and I like living (most of the time >.>) So honestly, I'm kinda on the fence I guess

 

[Kataiser]

My county had the #2 teenage pregnancy rate of any county in the US by percentage. A 1600-student school had about 100 pregnancies per year. We had children in the SIXTH GRADE getting pregnant. It's absurd. It's stupid and I hate that people think that's a good idea. And I don't know what's worse, the girls that wanted to get pregnant or the ones that get pissed that they got pregnant from having sex over and over without birth control.

._.

 

[Frizzle]

You want a kid? Get a puppy. Puppies don't cry, or talk back.
Wait 2 years with said puppy. Still want a kid? Have at it, but you better not be on welfare and be a suck on society.

 

[quysspe]

"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.

This. Although I'm always a little bit freaked out when I think of the fact that there is apparently a whole subgenre of reality TV about how great teen pregnancy is.

 

[RaikuFA]

at my high school there was a girl that was impregnated in a graveyard and went around saying stuff like 'Look what i did and look a baby im so popular'

SHE EVEN HAD PHOTOS OF THE GRAVEYARD WHEN SHE WAS BEING FUCKED

and the worst thing the girls became attached and thought she was the coolest and awesome girl at that school. When she had the baby thou she left school and lived with some homeless guy.

I asked her 'why did u have a baby?' her response was 'so i would be popular'. 'I said that isn't a very good reason to have a baby, how long have you known this guy?' she responded with 'i cant remember his name actually but i hope he was cute i don't want a retard baby like you.'

and thats when i wanted to do this

Spoiler: Picture may offend

see my first post on this, most of them do it nowadays for the 15 minutes that mtv promises with the shows they have on it

 

[zehydra]

within the context of this society. You're right, but only within the context of a society which demands 16+ years of education to get a decent living.

Don't get me wrong, I know you can get through life without an education, but, say someone wanted to become a doctor, it would be a hell of a lot more difficult if they had a child and most teenagers would just give up and go with 9-5 (at least from my experience with people who have been put in this situation don't think I've done any kind of elaborate study)

my point is, having a child while you're in the educational process hampers your ability to progress through the educational system. By 16 years I mean, elementary school - middle school (jr high) - High School - 4 year College. The reason for this, is rearing a child is an incredibly demanding task, physically, emotionally and time-wise. It would be very difficult to raise a child while any time from Middle School - College.

 

[FreakSheet]

Or you could, ya know, not have sex...

 

[jawakiller]

If I'm not the cause I think it is absolutely wrong.

Morally wrong.

Go to hell wrong.

Yeah, something like that. Haha, who really gives a shit?

 

[Carlston]

Bad since they basicly slave themselves to taking care of a kid and throwing dreams of work and college away.

Since making that happen means making someone watch the kid.


What happens when parents who got laid at 14-15, now in their 30's have kids and get scared so make the mistake their parents did...expect the kid to not explore their and other bodies till 18!


Yeah worked so well for mom and dad...Jesus will scare them into the right choice

(9 months later)

Over a babies cry "Where did we go wrong!?"
You never tried...

 

[Khanht Cope]

its probably the most natural thing in the world.

societally we delay the "normal" age for childbirth way beyond what is natural.

Thing is, there are 8 year old mormon kids who make some mainstream 28 year olds look like over-grown toddlers.

I mean, it makes sense. If sex is commercialized as an upfront casual thrill and common approaches to relationships lean towards mining them for chemical kicks (ie emotional laziness. Ascribing value to partners who make you laugh and are good in bed) the natural results begin to lean toward single parents off-loading their kid onto their parents while they take the kid's welfare money to go out and get drunk at the weekend and find another fling. The cycle of mal-development continues.

Anway, I think it's in no small part a failure of society in teaching a moral responsibility to people about being able to financially provide for a child before they go ahead and have one.

You're 14 and you're having a baby? why're you content with having your parents and the working population pay the bills for your kid?

On the other hand; if you look at lower class young people with virtually no employment prospects, during a big national economic retrenchment with a huge squeeze on living standards, residing in a (poverty/crime)-ridden district... the natural reaction to that is to start breeding.