13 Year-Old Becomes a Dad!

KSUViolet06 · #1 02-17-2009, 06:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Munchkin03

I didn't know it could do anything!

LOOK AT HIM DAEMONSEID.

LOL.

Nothing surprises me at all with kids anymore.

I went into my GYN's office for an appt and sat next to a pregnant 13 year old.

It was so ridiculous because here she is like 8 months pregnant and she really is JUST a kid. I mean, she called her mom "Mommy" still.

I remember her trying to fill out the paperwork and such and having her mom fill it out because she "didn't know how." She had to ask, "Mommy, am I allergic to anything??"

I kept thinking, wow, she has no clue what she's gotten herself into.

UGAalum94 · #2 02-20-2009, 09:48 PM

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Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

LOL.

Nothing surprises me at all with kids anymore.

I went into my GYN's office for an appt and sat next to a pregnant 13 year old.

It was so ridiculous because here she is like 8 months pregnant and she really is JUST a kid. I mean, she called her mom "Mommy" still.

I remember her trying to fill out the paperwork and such and having her mom fill it out because she "didn't know how." She had to ask, "Mommy, am I allergic to anything??"

I kept thinking, wow, she has no clue what she's gotten herself into.

This may be what's different about teen motherhood these days. I think it's always been around, but that in the past there was as assumption that if a person was pregnant that she needed to mature fast enough to take on a maternal role OR plan on giving the baby up to be raised by someone else.

And now, in a lot of the families where a teenage girl gets pregnant, the teenagers stays in her child role but the family also keeps the kid around.

The only reason why I'd judge it as being worse is that it seems often to completely cut fathers out of the loop. In this case in Britain it makes sense if the dad is this young, but not in cases when the parents are a little older.

KSUViolet06 · #3 02-23-2009, 11:02 PM

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Originally Posted by UGAalum94

That in the past there was as assumption that if a person was pregnant that she needed to mature fast enough to take on a maternal role OR plan on giving the baby up to be raised by someone else.

And now, in a lot of the families where a teenage girl gets pregnant, the teenagers stays in her child role but the family also keeps the kid around.

My mom told me once that if a girl in her HS got pregnant, she "magically disappeared" for 9 months and came back baby-free. This usually meant that she'd had the baby and given it up for adoption.

In some communities, we're seeing that when a girl gets pregant, her parents seem to take on the parental role with the baby, allowing her to continue "living her life" so to speak. Thus sticking the parents with another kid in addition to the ones they already have.

CutiePie2000 · #4 02-23-2009, 11:32 PM

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Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

My mom told me once that if a girl in her HS got pregnant, she "magically disappeared" for 9 months and came back baby-free. This usually meant that she'd had the baby and given it up for adoption.

I thought it was called "Going away to visit an aunt"?

KSUViolet06 · #5 02-23-2009, 11:34 PM

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Originally Posted by CutiePie2000

I thought it was called "Going away to visit an aunt"?

LOL.

I've heard it described as "going on a vacation" too.

CutiePie2000 · #6 02-23-2009, 11:41 PM

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Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

LOL.

I've heard it described as "going on a vacation" too.

What did they call it on "Desperate Housewives" when Danielle van de Kamp was pregnant? I think they sent her to a convent for unwed mothers, but said that she was at "Boarding School in Switzerland".

In any case, this story in England sounds very, very sad. These kids and the baby have really no opportunities to reach their full potential.

Munchkin03 · #7 03-26-2009, 12:35 PM

OMG THE BABY IS NOT HIS!!! STOP THE PRESSES!!!1

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-sto...5875-21227974/

I'm relieved for him, and kind of not surprised, but he was the best potential father that kid had. It's been alleged that the girl's family decided to frame him as the potential father because he comes from a more affluent background.

Hopefully he will see this as dodging a bullet and be extremely careful from now on!