MTV's 16 and Pregnant

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Originally Posted by 1stSoon2BePhD

First of all, I was wondering ... since when do you make such an important, life-altering decision such as who to have sex with and not talk with that person about the possibility of having children?

In the first episode, I was mad at Maci(?) and her boyfriend. She should have taken care of business before ever deciding to have a child with him.

Some things to think about:

These are 16 year old KIDS. They didn't think about the stuff you're talking about because they weren't LOOKING at the BIG PICTURE.

I'm also sure that no one "decided" anything before sleeping with anyone. Again, these are kids and they didn't plan for this to happen.

All they were interested in was having sex with their bfs.

They probably never thought they'd get pregnant. No kid ever does. They have the "it won't happen to me" syndrome.

Since they don't think it will happen to them, they rarely take their parents advice and get on the pill or use a condom, and that typically = a baby.