Pregnancy is supposed to be a time in your life in which you are prepared to give birth to a child and raise it. Nowadays, there are children who are having children. My long term best friend gave birth to a child two months before she turned eighteen. This has been about the average age during recent times. However, I saw a girl in my hometown the other day. She's a freshman in highschool this year. Fourteen maybe fifteen years old. She turned around enough for me to see that she was about six months pregnant. A freshman in high school. Her best friend, who was in seventh grade at the time, had already become pregnant once. She was maybe twelve or thirteen years old. She had an abortion though. It's still the aspect that thousands of teens every year are getting pregnant and having abortions. The ages seem to be dropping more and more. I went to high school with a girl who had already had three abortions. We were sophomores in high school. It seems as if teens never learn, and never get it through their heads. Having sex can get you pregnant. The only way that ensures one hundred percent that you will not get pregnant is abstinence. However, there are few that actually absence themselves from sexual contact. It turns my head around to hear about these young girls gettiing pregnant, especially by guys who are much older than they are, who could be carrying some type of STD. There were so many rumors in highschool of this person catching this, and that person catching that, and it's a sad world to look at the people you are around not knowing if they have an STD, or even if they've been pregnant. Literally, of the 5 other people in my clan in middle school, me and another girl are the only ones who have not experienced pregnancy. Two of them already have children, both eighteen years old, and the other two have had abortions. It's a sad world, and people just don't take responsibility or think about their actions before they actually do them.
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people have to start taking responsibilities for their actions. and its not just about pregnancies either
I completely agree with you. Young teens don't seem to realize that having sex without being properly protected puts you at severe risk. Now, I'm not going to sit here and preach "If you have sex, YOU WILL GET PREGNENT" but if you are not ready to handle that kind of responsibility, either of properly protecting yourself or being able to care for the result of your actions, you should not be having sex.
As a female, I am pro choice on the abortion issue. I think that it's really sick how the government is trying to put laws on a personal, medical proceedure because of their personal religious beliefs. Not everyone is christian in this nation and not everyone uses this proceedure as a quick fix of a problem they got themselves into. However, there are a lot of girls, even grown women who really should know better, who do. They abuse abortions, and don't seem to take what they are doing seriously. Therein lies the ultimate problem. Sex is serious. Treat it so.
I'm a firm beliver that if your not responsible to have a baby then you shouldnt be having sex because those are the consequences, til' about 3months ago when my good friend got pregnant now she is not that young but still she is not financially stable or has finished education. Mistakes happen and even though they were using proctetion, something happened and she got pregnant. I was by her side comforting her because she didnt plan for this I warmed up to the idea that things liek this happen to alot of girls and some are procteting themselves, the day of her abortion I was by her side it hurt her deeply to do this but being that her and her boyfriend don't come from rich families theyboth havent finished their educations and onlyone of them has a job, this was probly the best thing they could do. she regrets it everyday because that couldve been her first child and she will never know what his or he rface was like how he or she laughed nothing. I no longer judge these girls that get pregnant because i dont know them or their situation, I guess until it happento you you cant reallly sit here and talk crap about it beause for every pregnant girl there a different situation.
It is sad, but it's not usually the girl's fault (in most cases, except in rape, she does have responsibility, yes, but usually the main responsibility is not hers, but her partner;s). It's really common for pregnant young girls to have far older partners, often illegally older, who coerced them into sex. Studies show that 70% of girls who had sex when tehy were younger than 16 say they didn't actually want to. A lot of girls (and boys) don't get proper sex education, and girls in particular can easily be manipulated by an overzealous partner into believing that pregnancy can prevented by some ridiculous folk tale... or by some common myth, like pulling out. More responsibility should be put on the boys... and men, because often they are men. x.x
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