XWTK teenage pregnancies

[karen]

Originally Posted by thro

Erm. teenagers have been having kids since day dot.
What you see in the media is sensationalist bullshit, just like the hoon propoganda.
I know plenty of people who's parents were in their teens when they were born.
If anything, there's LESS people popping out kids at an early age (or at all) now-adays, and our greying population reflects that fact.

That's precisely when we're supposed to have children.
Take a poll. 'Were you're parent's teens when they had their first child?'
(I expect a lot of the policy being written now is to cope with the lack of reproducing and aging population.)
Almost every country in the world, at most time periods throughout history, started 'breeding' asap.

Originally Posted by Kayd

I went to High School with a girl who had a baby at 16
She works at Red Rooster now

I know 3 sisters who work at HJ's and have done for over 25 yrs now. They would all have superannuation, holidays, long service leave, sick pay, management positions, whatever. What's wrong with that? Is it job snobbery? They are extremely stable and financial. If you take pride in yourself, do what you do well, why should it be not good enough?

[Daise]

Originally Posted by cowgirl

im 21 now and i can safely bet that about half the girls in my year at high school have had kids. its disgusting to me that they can be so reckless. what i find especially amusing is it was mostly the "cool popular" girls that have fallen preggers. someone who is 15/16 isnt mentally emotionally or financially capable of having a child and i dont get why girl who have heard the same things that i have can be so wreckless when that same information has made me cautious.

*sigh* i dont think ill ever get it.

+1 here.

It's scary to see all my old schoolmates on Facebook with 5-10yo kids.

[jules_1972]

You need a license to drive a car.
Study for up to 6 years to cut someone open, remove stuffs and sew em up.


Dont need anything (including intelligence) to introduce a human life to this world.

[Danger Mouse]

I was way to shit scared of what my father would of done to me if he had found out i was a prego teen..so that was my contraception right there...Im married and in my early 30's and im still shit scared to have one.

Althought both my parents where teens when they had my brother and very early 20s when they had me and that turned out well for them..

we are never going to stop teens from getting knocked up..maybe we need to do some chemical castration on the high school boys.

and on the other side of the coin how old is too old to have a baby??? 30's 40's...??

[Grantlington]

Originally Posted by -J-

Contraception:
All forms of contraception have failure rates, even if its 5% 100% or 0.0001%. No form of contraception is ever fool proof. The only way not to get pregnant is not to have sex period. Hence the saying absenese is the best for of contrception.

Wrong my dear fellow

[Taylor]

Too old to have a baby = your kids putting you in a home before they are 25.

Giving high school boys the temp snip will be just as effective as infecting every girl of the same age with an STD.
Except one will turn the: "Do you have anything?"
"...shit"
"Oh well, another time."
Into: "Do you have anything?"
"Who cares?"
"You're right."

[FireStorm]

Man, kids just don't understand that for the next 18 years they are responsibe for every part of their childs life.

They loose all the things I took for granted when I was a teenager. Parties, alcohol, drugs, hanging with the boyz down south and no responsibilities. I'd love to go back to bein a teenager for a week! I couldn't think of anything worse than cutting those years short.