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Originally Posted by UGAalum94
And going by personal experience with the couple of pregnant teens I've known, they knew where to get condoms or other forms of birth control, and they knew how people got pregnant. Some even knew from close friends exactly how difficult parenting was. That knowledge didn't information their behavior though. The fun of sex and the "it won't happen to me" thinking (as well as "it might be fun to have a kid" thinking in a couple of cases) override the formal instruction they've been giving.
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I wish it was true of just pregnant teens! I have a friend who's going to give birth in the next few weeks. She's my age, and her boyfriend is still in college. Ewwww! It's just a big mess...I don't get it. In college, my boyfriend and I were acutely aware of how much my getting pregnant would screw things up for both of us, so I wonder why they took that risk knowing that her career is temporarily derailed (she's in the same field as I, where you have to garner a certain number of work HOURS in order to be licensed), and his last months of college/first months of a career are not going to be as smooth as they would have been if they had just used a damn condom! I think she sees how much harder it's going to be for her than it is for our married friends who, while still got pregnant by accident, have the back-up of a larger apartment, more savings, and more work history to cushion the setback.
Totally off-topic, but I'm still skeeved out by it--and still kinda wasted from last night. I feel like this situation has made me a million times more vigilant about not getting pregnant!
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