Teenage pregnancy

I am really against abortion. It's because of my religion. If i have a teenage daughter who got pregnant i just can't imagine what i would do but definitely i would have her have an abortion. I won't even force her to marry the guy that got her pregnant. For awhile i would feel utterly disappointed and depressed but i would never ignore her for a long time. It's very difficult to be a teenage mom and yes those girls need a lot of support and less condemnation from their family.

I think it depends on the situation as yes, many would get pressured into having an abortion but, on the flip side of that there are many who are proabbaly pressured into keeping the pregnancy when they may really regret that later. I think that everyone is entitled to their own decision no matter what age.

Personally there needs to be more Education and self awareness and understanding on the parents when a child especially in their early to mid teens gets pregnant. Personally this should also be a time to sit down with the parents of the boy responsible to make him understand he is a Dad and be made to have to help out and be responsible as well. The parents should be willing to help their children as well to be good Loving parents and offer support as well. No, Abortion is never the issue, and if anything the worst choice that a person could ever make. Many times yrs. later it creates a lot of depression, etc. and sometimes they are never able to have any kids as well. I think the Best thing to do is to teach the kids the importance of waiting until Marriage if they can, and offering them a choice of Birth Control, or teaching them the responsibilities of what it would be like it they ever were to have a child as well.

I am perfectly fine with teenage pregnancy. I myself am a teen mom. I got pregnant and had my oldest at 17. I had my second daughter 15 months later and then 4 years later had another baby. I am now 25 and raising my 3 daughters and my stepson. I think that if the teenager has plenty of help and support, mainly the support she can do just about anything. I dont really have a life plan yet. I am just barely getting things in the right direction for my family. It's been a struggle the last 8 years but I'd do it all over again if I could. Being a teen mom is far from easy and for some people the life plan can be easy and take just a short time and in other cases such as mine can take years and years. For me it was a matter of finding the right job and my husband finding the right job to bring in the right amount of money so we can finally buy a house to call our home. I dont think it's right at all for teens to get pregnant and I will do everything in my will power to not have it happen to my 3 daughters or my stepson. If it happens then it happens. I will never allow my children to have an abortion. I am pro-life. I only agree to an abortion if there will be complications for the mother. If there is no life threating problems for the mother there is no reason why the mother cant carry out the pregnancy and do an adoption. The baby did no wrong and if anything she be carried out to term and given to a family who will love them.

I grew up in a very conservative society. A teenage pregnancy was often viewed as the end of a girl's future. Some parent's fail to see that there is life even after being pregnant. I was also guilty of this narrow kind of thinking when I was growing up. Only when I was able to get away from this society was I able to realize that one mistake could not fix another mistake.

I got pregnant at 32 and it was unplanned because I was dread, scared of having labor. And now I am seven months pregnant still unplanned but never have I ever thought of abortion knowing how wrong it is. Besides, I have never regretted having these children because it is worth becoming a mother. Abortion has always been wrong. Teenagers may not be able to make great plans for themselves this is the reason where the role of the parents especially the mother comes of great essence. That is life we are talking about and we can't just get rid of it like that only because the mother is a teenager. It is very sad. They choose to abort the grandchild for what-to save the future of their own child? What about the baby in the womb that is alive? Doesn't it have the right to a future too? I hope that the world will change when it comes to this. Because this world is not only for us, but also for the innocent who lives within us. Don't we think they deserve to live here because they are innocent?

I had an illegitimate child and had to give her up for adoption. In those days, even if you gave the child out for adoption, you were still still considered not punished enough. No decent guy would marry you and when he did, often it was after years of being single, and by that time, you may have been unable to have children. I think the reason was that the decent people kept their sons away from you. So when I hear about teen parents having the help of their parents, and people admire them fro being so brave, I wonder why these people were not so admiring about the girls who gave their child to a family who woud raise them, and not just say it, but believe it. It is not right to have an abortion, but I do believe that with young teenagers or even teenagers who do not have a job, that adoption is the right thing. The whole trouble is that these teenagers heard about the way that their aunts or their grandparent's friends who did get pregnant were treated, and they decide to keep the baby. Yet I do notice that these teenagers start having more babies and most of the guys never marry them. They do not need a big church wedding, just a small church wedding or go to the justice of the peace. It is just that the guys are not the decent guys and that the old adage that if you lost your virginity you do not deserve a decent guy to marry you still stands. Unfortunately. Oh yes and not every parent helps out.

Well, I really think that the decision to abort or to keep the baby is up to the mother and she should not be pressured on way or the other. I do think that being educated on all her options is very important. Unfortunatley,I think you are going to see a spike in teen pregnancies and the problems that go along with them. Why? Because our wonderful government has cut funding to the Family Planning centers. Because of the cuts, they are no longer giving out affordable birth control to women with lower incomes. Some of them have closed their doors completly which means that a lot of women and young teens that don't have insurance will no longer be able to afford to get their regular exams or be tested for STDs. It's really too bad but I know of at least 4 girls already who have gone off their birth control because they can't afford to go to a regular doctor and pay full price. That tells me that they are in no position to bring a child into the world and I don't think we ever had to worry about them getting an abortion as those are very costly and they probably couldn't have afforded one anyway.

I feel very sorry for parents who are pressured into letting their child have a child that they can't take care of and so the parent has to take care of their grandkid, especially when the cycle continues and they end up having to take care of their great-grandkid too.

If I am a parent of a teenage girl getting preggy, I won't let her have abortion. It's not right that she's pregnant at an early age but it is immoral to have abortion too. As a parent I'll support both of them since it's my responsibility to educate and discipline my child. But it's only me. The problem is I'm not like most of the parents.

Honestly I feel bad about teenage pregnancy. Teenagers most in my country do not know anything about parenting and their actions reflects on their parents performance on how they brought up their children,This is a trending issue in almost all places but for me teen ages should be more counselled when it comes to pregnancy. There are many reasons why I feel sad about it. 1) Teens are like kids, more are still childish and can't stand on their own. When they get into such trouble they decide very irresponsible actions like abortion which is killing. They wanted to destroy someones life because it will run theirs that's a shame and selfish. If in case they re in such trouble we cannot do anthing about it but to counsel and accept and try to learn the lesson and start being mature and responsible not solving mistakes in another mistake. 2) That actions reflects to their parents and i feel for their parents,because from the day that children were born from their mom, all hopes and dreams were already in their mind for their sons and daughters so parents will do everything just to make it happen, but when something like that happen, all of those were destroyed and make the parents feel bad, and marrying in an early age not thinking of your parents hardships sending you to school and no returing the favor and love?...I feels bad. 3) Life is so hard, most especially when you do not have money, and you can not have a normal living when you do not have proper education then how will this teens survive? they will ask from their parents? Though having kids with an early age really has some advantage because of lesser years of gaps, well its the only advantage of it though. Many marriages ended into separation mostly because of early pregnancy and marriage because most of it are out of immaturity lust and not love. Love is a precious thing and has powers and responsibilities. Sometimes teens do not see and understand that love is not evaluated underpants, Love is evaluated according to the maturity of a person and readiness to take resposibilities. :)

The safest way not to get pregnant is to abstain from s*x. Teenagers should not engage themselves to s*x yet. Their lives would just be ruined if ever they would get pregnant at a young age. I think, the safest thing to wear if a person wants to have s*x with the one she loves is the "wedding ring". I feel so sorry for those who got pregnant at a young age. They are not able to enjoy their juvenile youth as they should be. :)

I am grad that our member is a pregnant.You care your body & baby.You keep caution herself from other dangerous element. I hope that your delivery will better. We wait for your golden days.

It has already the trend nowadays regarding teenage pregnancy. We cannot stop it with the technology we have right now and how liberated are teenagers as they are that it could lead to the point of pregnancy. Teenage pregnancy is not good to our society. Since it involves the youth. The youth should not get in the situations like this. I feel sorry for those parents who had their daughter at a very young age get pregnant. Teenage pregnancy could also mean unwanted that, since these teenagers are not ready for the being pregnant. Abortion comes. I believe abortion should not be the proper action. Abortion is a sin. It is killing the human inside.

In some ways, teenage pregnancy can have its advantages. One advantage is the age gap between her and her eldest child will be smaller. This will more or less eliminate the confusion between them. Although teenage pregnancy will require much discipline and planning but since teenagers nowadays can be irresponsible, discipline can't be expected much from them.