Do you think teen pregnancy is okay?

for me, it's not okay because teens are still very young. they could have been spending their lives having fun and making the most of their teenage life. but getting pregnant at a very early age like that is not very easy. well if the family has money to spend for you and your baby then maybe it wont be a problem but i mean the effect of getting pregnant at that very young age is really life changing. i am already 24 and i would wish sometimes that i am already a mother because i already wanna see my baby growing up and so that way i could still see him or her growing up while i am still young hehehehe well i hope they show how hard it is being a teen mom so teenagers wont do the same thing. they should encourage the youth to be more careful with themselves and not engage to s*x already at a very young age. we know that Choices have consequences.

It depends on how you look at it, there are always two sides to it. I don't have any kids myself, but almost everyone of my friends had kids in their teen years. Sometimes kids are exactly what people need to calm them down. I have one friend who had her first kid at 15 and another a few years later, but she is a great mom and now she is a stay at home mom and happily married. I had another who had one kid at 16 and it made her go wild after awhile because she felt like she took on responsibility way too early in life. Most of them say they are happy they had kids young, so they can still be young when their finished raising their kids. Others say they wished they would have waited, so they could have went to college because they struggle. I feel lucky that I haven't had to experience raising a child yet because I can't even hardly take care of myself. I am a full time college student, I work, and go to church a lot. I forget to feed myself, I am so busy my stomach has to growl to remind me to eat at times, so I could not imagine what it would be like to have to care for someone else too. I don't think MTV's shows were to make it seem great to be a teen mom, I think it was to show the audience the struggles of being a teen mom. The young people who see it like that I think are people who it would not take much influence to get them pregnant anyways.

Well, I don't kinow if you are a te3enager or not, but in most cases, no. Teens need to be teens and it's too much responsibility for someone that young. I'm not saying teens are incapable of being a good mom, but usually the father doesn't stick around. Yet they want to be in his life, so they have to bounce back and forth with visitations, it gets even worse if the mom hates the guy for whatever reason. Plus, if she does want to go party, she drops it off to her mom's place. The only positive that can come out of it is, you can be 35 or 40, which is still pretty hyoung and can have a life again, because that ba by is now grown. I think it all depends on the teen, whether the show encourages it. I must admit, it shows a teen being pretty successful and to some teens, might make it look pretty easy.

I think Teen Mom actually couldn't really take on their responsibilities as a teen mother.they depend on their family themselves. teen mom should n't be encouraged in any country.may be they need more education .

for me, it is okay if a girl is pregnant when she is teen. in my country, a girl is permitted for having marry in 16 years old. it is still teen. so when she is pregnant at teen after she had marry, it is okay. it does not disobey the rule. so the girl must be ready to be a mom if she want to have a child when she is teen

I think it depends on how you get pregnant. If you're a bratty teenage girl who goes around with every available guy and you eventually get knocked up, then of course you're going to be a horrible mother (experience from my sister, I had to watch a nephew grow up into a bad child because of a bad mother) Of course there are many teenage girls who are mature enough to accept their responsibility as a mother and who do a good job. However I think it's quite bad for maternal instincts to mix with unbalanced teenage horomones, making you a ticking-stress-time-bomb.

no but if any of my daughters became preganet i would support them i was a teen age mom and i felt i lost out on alot if i could turn back time i would have continued on with my education see the things i wanted to see do the things i wanted to do. but i would not trade any of children i love them despite mistatkes

Having a baby to take care of when you yourself is still young is a very difficult task. For someone (teens) who has no experience, it'll be a disaster. I disgree with having teen moms to be honest. It just makes it say that life is easy and taking care of a baby is just the same as some homework you need to finish. It also shows the spreading of lack of sense of responsibility. In my own point of view, teenage girls should learn to be more wise with their decisions and not just hastily do things without thinking. There are consequences too. They should know that.

Not at all. Teenagers are not stupid but they didn't live what they need and I think that each 10 years it's so different from each other that people should really begin to think in getting married at 25 and really having kids at 30 or more. There's so much to enjoy and I never met, no I met just one actually (just remind about it) woman that had a kid as a teenager and was happy, the 99% didn't work out their marriage or their living together, leave the kid with the grandmother and went have fun wich then it's ridiculous. I don't find it stupid girls having fun until 25 something, but I find it so when they are like 30, 35 and living like a single teenager, trying to find love. If they had children already they should get their act together cause it could be an accidently pregnancy but the kids is even more innocent, and they will feel rejected, un loved, that's terrible, that's the best way to begin to destroy a persons's life, sometimes they never will get over. I had an neighbor, I never saw her thank God cause I was so angry, but the kids were 7 and 4 and they put fire in their apartament, because she didn't pay for energy for 3 months and it was saturday night when she went to a club, they had to turn some candles or something to be able to SEE and the candles set the curtains on fire!!

Teen pregnancy is not okay, as parent I'm not okay because I felt loss in my responsibility as a parents. We know that teen are very adventurous and we should be monitored and guided them personally. It is one way teen future will be broken and loss. soo it is not okay for me.. see you around

Personally, I don't think it's okay but I don't blame teenagers who got pregnant but didn't plan the pregnancy. As a young adult, the reason that I don't agree is that I as a teenager, I had a lot of issues, majority of them concentrating on my self. If I can't get hold on my self in dealing with these issues, how can I deal with a child that needs a lot of attention and my concern. A lot of girls got pregnant on their teens which is an alarming issue in itself. Teens are in the phase called puberty where everything is so big and board that is sometimes too much to take it all at once. It's kinda like the Enlightenment in one go. I don't exactly know what a teenage mom thinks or feels but I feel that they want the best for their children, despite their young age. As you said, they are moms who step up and others are just not that kind or material. But blaming them doesn't help anything or anyone. I hope the people who watch the show learn something from it and not emulate the mistakes of the girls portrayed in the show. It shudders me to think that a show will actually profit from doing something so wrong.

I think its a show displaying the difficulties of being a teen in America. Even though their are some people who are responsible as teen moms I think it is always best to wait until you have career, and until you can take care of yourself and your children independently without depending on your parents. Its very hard to be a parent at any age so you should definately take your time and make sure you have a stable relationship.

definitely its NOT okay.........I have seen young parents struggle to raise their children properly, they mess with that job. Maybe its not really a bad action to be a teenage mom or dad coz a lot of instances that the situation change someones lives so somehow it is something wonderful. But generally it's not really ideal to become parents at a very young age let face it young mind are careless, a little immature, idealistic but less action in short were not responsible enough to handle such huge responsibility. Teenagers they say is aggressive, spontaneous, curios and hasty so think things over the little angel will pay the price for our actions.........

16 is too young to be a mother... while a person is still young make the most of life.. dont take life seriously cause no one gets out alive right... what i meant was do you whatever you want to do... be happy education is a must and make ur fam proud..

No matter how you look at it, teen pregnancy is never okay and is never acceptable. Teen moms will have little chances of rearing good and responsible individuals in the future. Teens should learn the value of love and waiting for the right time. A child having a child is going to make situations worst.

hello, The America showing how hard to be a teenage mom, it has a lesson for them I dont know if someone take it as a encouragement. For me I did not prefer to be teen pregnancy because the teenager did not even enter college and work. They never experience how good to be single when you are working and how hard it was when you are accidentally get pregnant specially if you are not prepared for it. right? Because their are times that the teenagers look for their parents for some help.

I think they way to old to get pregnant coz they still have a change to undergoing this life with fun way before get pregnant