Originally Posted by
Solimar /img/forum/go_quote.gif Ya know...all I can hope is that at 16, she is the exception, and can actually raise her child. I do think that she made a bad decision, but your actions have consequences, and these are them. At 16, I don't think a person can say that they are
ready for a baby. Mentally, your brain doesn't start to develop
reasoning skills until you are 21, and your brain only is fully mature at 25. I can't say that having sex at 16 is wrong...but having a baby at 16 is something that I would think seriously about before doing it. She's just a kid...let's hope she does okay with raising one.
I do not think she should be a role model for younger kids, though. You can't glamorize or romanticize something that is more often than not, a disaster.
ITA! And btw, she met this guy at church? Hmmm I´m not gonna say anything else about this now
Originally Posted by
CellyCell /img/forum/go_quote.gif I still find it a shock when a young person has a kid. Shoot, all my friends are 21 and getting preggars and I'm here thinking "Dude - there goes your youth!" Yeah, having a kid doesn't stop life and what not, but it does change it a whole lot.
This girl, and every other young person pregnant out there, have their whole life to get pregnant and birth control pills plus a thousand other contraceptive are made to prolong that until that time comes. Accidents happen yep, but accidents can be preventable.
yup, I also think it´s a big deal. Teen pregancies should not become the standard, it should stay the exception..I think nobody would disagree on that one. It´s not that hard to use BC, for christ´s sake