Pregnant 14-Year-Old Says Having a Child Is the Newest Fashion Among Teens

[KSig RC]

Originally Posted by Scandia

Many high school girls do choose to get pregnant on purpose- or at least to keep the baby even if the pregnancy was not planned- because they want someone to love. They feel lonely and want someone to give them attention.

Many? What's "many"?

Originally Posted by VAgirl18

As far as getting pregnant at age 4, I'm not sure. What I am sure of is that girls even younger have gotten their periods.

Please show me a link to this- I'd be very interested to see that. I can understand vaginal bleeding becaue of some disease/disorder/infection, but not menstruation.

[AChiOhSnap]

Originally Posted by ErinKathleenNJ

4 year olds? Do you mean 14 year olds? 4 year olds don't get their period, so they cannot have a baby. 4 year old bodies haven't produced any of the hormones to start puberty...not till about 7 y/o. then puberty comes a few years later. 4 year olds do, unfortunately, are victims of sexual abuse. they can get STIs, but cannot produce a baby. I would like to see a study where 4 year olds have ovulated and produced an embryo.

AKA Monet is actually correct in saying 4. I believe the earliest recorded pregnancy was with a girl around that age, obviously with some genetic abnormality which induced early sexual development.

If I'm not mistaken, the youngest girl that actually gave birth to a baby without miscarrying was 8. Again, due to some kind of early development issue.

I'll post the links to the stories when I have more time, but I'm sure a quick Google search would provide this information for you.

[LaneSig]

I had a 7th grader (just turned 13) get pregnant last year. Her twin sister then went and got pregnant because "Then our babies can grow up like sisters!"

This year, they show off the pictures of the babies. The other girls are saying: "Oh, they are so cute! I want to have a baby, too!"

It happens.

It's not the NE Journal of Medicine, but hey. Check this link out! I wouldn't have believed it. Poor little girl

[Jill1228]

Having a baby is a fashion statement? WTF? Sorry, but right now (for personal reasons) this statement pisses me off!


Where were the parents in all this. I can tell you, I was too scared of my mom to even THINK about getting knocked up as a teen.

[AlexMack]

Chavs+Daily Mail=WTF. Bad sources all around. Besides, having a baby is a requirement of being a female chav. That and the burberry hat.

[AlphaFrog]

Pregnancy before menstration.

As much as I ususally loathe .org medical info sites, this one talks about getting pregnant before menstration, which is possible, also.

[NinjaPoodle]

"It seems to be fashionable to get pregnant. ... Teenage girls think babies are cute, but they forget the physical side of being pregnant, then having to give up your own childhood to look after a baby," she told the paper.

Ummm, yeah they also forget children cost money and they need 2 WORKING parents.

[sdsuchelle]

As a child of a single mother, I'm just going to ignore the "need 2 working parents" comment or else I might blow up.

As far as little girls getting pregnant, (http://www.snopes.com/pregnant/medina.asp), the youngest mother ever recorded was a 5-year-old Peruvian girl.

:-/

[NinjaPoodle]

Originally Posted by sdsuchelle

As a child of a single mother, I'm just going to ignore the "need 2 working parents" comment or else I might blow up.

As far as little girls getting pregnant, (http://www.snopes.com/pregnant/medina.asp), the youngest mother ever recorded was a 5-year-old Peruvian girl.

:-/

I didn't mean that as a slight to single parents. In this society, life is designed to be easier for a two parent family.

[cutie_cat_4ever]

Originally Posted by PrettyBoy

Yeah, that's very early. It must be something in the fast food. LOL.

I was quite surprised to know that some fast foods like hot dogs actually sets puberty earlier. Don't know how true is this link, but I read somewhere in another article that says similar things about the effect of eating fast food.

http://www.alkalizeforhealth.net/earlymenarchy.htm

Nonetheless, it's such a scary thought that kids think of having babies are cool. Seriously, I think it's time for toy companies to develop better baby dolls that can talk, eat and s***.

The only time I can ever think about kids have kids...is that if they are too darn rich...but still, I won't even think about having kids at my age let alone 14.

[DSTCHAOS]

Abortion was the fad at my middle school and teen clique pregnancies (girls in the same crew planning their pregnancies at the same time) were the fad at my high school. We're talking '88-'95 so nothing here is new or shocking.

The article is from London so this may be something new for them. As someone stated, teen pregnancy is no longer the "epidemic" that it once was in the U.S.

Also, it's "new" when people start talking about middle class whites and not the lower class whites, blacks, and Hispanics that people "expect" this type of thing from.

Originally Posted by DSTCHAOS

Also, it's "new" when people start talking about middle class whites and not the lower class whites, blacks, and Hispanics that people "expect" this type of thing from.

Exactly!!! Don't you love classism?

[DSTCHAOS]

Originally Posted by sdsuchelle

As a child of a single mother, I'm just going to ignore the "need 2 working parents" comment or else I might blow up.

You don't have to blow up. Such comments aren't personal. They are societal and based on generalizations. Particularly when we look at the connection between over 50% single parenthood in a certain community and the disproportionately high rates of poverty in these communities (based on the feminization of poverty and the fact that the largest percentage of people in poverty are children).

If your family doesn't fit the generalization, good for your family but that doesn't negate the millions of families that it does pertain to.