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

[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.

[sdsuchelle]

Originally Posted by NinjaPoodle

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.

Oh, okay, that's fine. I definitely agree that its usually financially easier with a two-parent household.

[camii]

Originally Posted by NinjaPoodle

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.

I agree, having been raised in a single parent home myself...why intentionally put your self in that position!!

And as far as this being considered the new FASHION among teens, I will reserve my comments on that all together!!

[FSUZeta]

when i was in labor with my first child(at age 30), there was all sorts of screaming going on down the hall-"make it stop....i don't want to have this baby anymore.....etc". when my physician came in to check on me, i asked him what all the fracus was. he said,"just another baby, having a baby. if they only realized what they were getting themselves into when they became sexually active. now that she is in labor, she doesn't want to give birth. she is 14" i could hear the nurse saying," it's going to come whether you want it to or not, you need to just suck it up and do what we are telling you to do." they were not being cruel-this girl had been carrying on like this for at least an hour.

i gathered at the time that she needed to push, and she was not pushing, but was pitching a fit.

maybe if they took impressionable young girls into the labor and delivery rooms, they might prevent a few pregnancies.

teenagers see celebrities having babies out of wedlock, and think that it is the fashionable thing to do. they do not understand that these celebrity women have boucoup bucks and can hire nannies and nurses to care for the baby, run errands, cook, clean and answer the phone. celebs can hire trainers and nutritionists to help them get their prepregnancy body back. girls are being presented an unrealistic example of how a tiny minority can afford to have a baby and still live the life they did pre-baby.

[jon1856]

Originally Posted by camii

I agree, having been raised in a single parent home myself...why intentionally put your self in that position!!

And as far as this being considered the new FASHION among teens, I will reserve my comments on that all together!!

Awhile ago, while I was recovering from surgery, I was watching one of the the day time "talk" shows. There was a rather young "lady" who among other things said that see wanted a baby early in her life so that they would be able to go partying together.......

[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.