Children having Children

I don't want to sound too judgemental although I'm not making any excuses either for those that decide to have a child at such a young age when they have not reached maturity themselves! I think it's totally irresponsible and the parents should face the criticism as regards not bringing up their children with good values! The very fact of children having children is absurd! They ruin their lives and I guess they miss out on a lot of things that they could be doing instead. I'm not going to try and access the minds of those that become pregnent at such an early age but obviously something is going on, there are issues there that need to be resolved. It's a very difficult situation for everyone involved all the same. Andrew

He he I do not think It is something important, because in nowadays there is so many situations like this. I think this new mothers are not ready for kids, but they do not want to make abort too. Usually this little mother mothers take care about own doughters baby. In nowadays newer teens whant do XXX thing and it is very sad. I am 16 years old, but I know that I get XXX thing in future very much times. Why we need run so much? I do not have a kids, but If I had I certainly do not allow make abort. I take care about baby so long while my kids grow up to adult.

Though there is no way that I think that it is right for a child to have a baby, if my daughter was ever to be in this situation, I wouldn't have any choice but to support her and her child. You see, I am from the school of thought that doesn't believe in abortion and if I would ever allow my daughter to make this kind of decision for herself, I believe that it would haunt me and her for the rest of our lives.

It is a big problem not only to the family but also to society. First off, the girl's future will never be the same again. She will have to stop school in order to take care of the child and if she does go back to school in the future, her chances of finishing it will be little as her life would be very different than before. The young mother will not be able to rear the child properly and give him/her good education, so if there are several cases like this in society, our future will be bleak. We need responsible citizens who will compose a good society and having children mothering children is the worst that could happen to any society.

if this happens to your child, you will be torn. i also don't support abortion however how can a 12 year old will give birth as i know giving birth is so painful. how can you expect a kid to be a mother when she has not known to be an adult. it will just be both painful to the mother, the kid, and the baby.

When I was a child, I was unconscious about the reproductive system. I mean I am an ignorant regarding that thing. But when I started got a knowledge about on how to create a baby, then I was so curious on how to do it. Did you get the analogy? Since childhood, I don't even know how and why my parents got a baby. Maybe our government should do something because now-a-days, youth are so rude. SO maybe teenagers are assuming that tehy won;t get pregnant by their own guess

When I was doing an internship for college, I worked in a children's shelter. We got a 12-year pregnant girl in. Her mother had a boyfirend who had a 21-year old son. The mom thought it was cool that the boy liked her daughter, and she had no objections to their being intimate. The result was a pregnant 12 year old who wanted to be just like her mom. Well, it went to court and mom lost custody. The girl went to foster care. What can we do? Educate parents. If it was my daughter, I would seriously consider abortion, because a 12 year old's body is not mature to carry a child, and she could be in danger.

I think only last year there was news of a girl of 9 being pregnant. It is terrible and very sad to see this, as the girl is still a child herself and defnitely would not be able to cope or understand with what is happening. I am angry at the people who have allowed this to happen. But what's done is done, and I hope that the child is taken care of and that all this will not affect her psychological development...

I think children having children is a terrible idea! You need to be mature before you can have children, and 16-year-olds and 12 year-olds are definitely not mature enough to have children! Nor are they ready for it. They make terrible mothers and so their kids are not raised right, and therefore their daughters are also likely to get pregnant at a young age (or their sons are likely to get other girls pregnant at a young age) and it becomes a vicious cycle. I do not have children so I don't know whether I can actually answer this question, but if my daughter got pregnant at a young age, I'd probably let her have the kid and help her raise it so that the child is raised right and does not make the same mistakes that his/her mother made. I think to stop this from happening parents need to be stricter with their children and keep tabs on them so that they do not get into this kind of a situation.