Girls Who Aborted Response

I think that it is sad how many people have made the choice to have an abortion, and some of the reasons that they did. They will always have to live with the consequences of feeling the guilt and sadness. In this case, she was made to have one. If they do not want to make that personal choice, I don't think that they should have to. That is a big decision though. In each of the stories that I read the different people felt sad in their own way but I think that some of the reasoning's were even sadder. Their boyfriends wanted them to, or they didn't have anyone to help them, or they were forced to or just made a poor decision. I think more people need to consider the consequences of it if they do.

Girls Who Aborted

This girl is named Latasha. She found out that she was pregnant when she was fourteen years old. Instead of wanting an abortion, she was forced to have one. She said that she was forced to and she will never forget that day. It was October 13 when she found out. She never heard from her babies father again since he thought that her mother would press charges since he was eighteen years old. She was scared out of her mind when she told her cousin. She then went to get an abortion after her cousin told everyone. She said she will never forgive herself for putting her own flesh and blood in harm's way.

(There are many more stories by many more teens on the site, with different reasoning's to why they did what they did)

Pregnant Teens Talk About Life As Young Moms Response

I think that these teens have a lot of feelings and regrets about their life and their decisions. I think that they were smarter about it after it happened because they realize now that it's to late they see what they could have done or the mistake that they have made. I think that more teens could be more responsible. I feel the same way as I do about all of the other sites that I saw and their reasoning's for what happened. Yes, sometimes it is an accident, but that's also an excuse some of the time.

Pregnant Teens Talk About Life As Young Moms

Teka Steward is in her second trimester of her pregnancy. She is a straight-A student and described herself as a "goody-two-shoes" before she got pregnant. She said she was the goody-two-shoes whose mom worked in the school district and couldn't do anything or she would find out. She was captain of her golf team, was involved in Young Life, a leader, involved in her church and went on mission trips. She was six months along when she said that. She explained that she had an image, and then a temptation of doing stuff, and that she's a regular teen and falls sometimes.. all the times. She had heard all the information on safe sex and said that she practiced it, and to her shock it didn't prevent her pregnancy. She said that they had used protection and she thinks it just broke. She said that you don't even know it's happening until it happens. She said that at first she was like "OK this totally ruined my dreams," and then explained that she feels differently now, and you have to keep pushing forward and pressing towards your dreams. Many pregnant teens who find little support end up in poverty and only 3% finish college before age 30.

Ashley Chapman learned that she was expecting at 17. She thinks that they need to make new statistics with her 3-month-old-Max. At first she thought that she would just take care of it, then she realized she can't. She said that she had sex and that she has to be mature and deal with the consequences and grow up really fast. Now she has to tend to Max's every needs. She says that its totally different because you can't just go shopping and do whatever you want when you have a baby. Everything is about them, feeding them, changing them and playing with them.

Besides the weight of an impending infant, the pregnant teens also have to deal with how society, family and friends view them. Angela Gavieres learned that she was expecting at 15, and said that a lot of people are disappointed and they say, "oh she's a waste and you know, her whole future's going down the drain. She is currently 5 months pregnant and said that her future, and her school, she was terrified.

Janelle has dealt with the same issue. In school she let a lot of the teachers down because they were expecting more from her. The other day her friend's little sister called her Jamie Lynn Spears, and she felt heartbroken because she used to look up to her, and felt like she had let her down.

Teen Pregnancy #2 Response

I think that it's a good thing that the number has gone down for teen pregnancies. It is sad to hear about how someone can ruin their life emotionally the way some do for themselves, their family and the boyfriend. It is sad to me also to see babies have to go through the consequences of their parents mistakes. I think it is always harder for the father because most guys can't handle the situation as well as the mother, and they don't know how to act about it and they may get more stressed out about it. The end of the information is kind of obvious, but people don't take that into consideration before they make that important mistake.

Teen Pregnancy #2

Did you know that one in three teens are likely to get pregnant at least once by the age of 20 in the United States? Yep its true! This is better than a decade ago, when the number was four in ten girls. The number is said to still be too high. Pregnancy has very important consequences for teen girls, boys, and their babies. Having a baby as a teenager makes it much harder or sometimes even impossible for girls and boys to reach their goals, such as finishing high school, going on to college, getting a good job, or getting married when they grow up, and poses additional challenges as well for the child also.

Some teen mothers decide to continue their pregnancy and then choose adoption for their baby. Adoption may be the best choice for the baby and the teen parents. There are many adoption agencies and types of adoption. Some teens are even able to meet the parents who adopt their babies. In other situations, many teens decide to keep their baby. Some marry the baby's father and raise the baby together. Sometimes the baby's grandparents or other family members help raise it so that the mother can stay in school and work. It requires a lot of extra hard work for a teen parent to finish school and get a good job. Children of teen mothers have greater risk of poverty, behavioral problems, poor academic performance, incarceration, and teen pregnancy, so good parenting is important. Some teen pregnancies end in abortion. Abortions can have complications. There also may be emotional consequences. Some women say that they feel sad and use more alcohol and drugs than before. Some states require that the teens have a parents permission to have an abortion. In 2002 there were over 750,000 teen pregnancies in the U.S. including 215,000 teen abortions.

Teen pregnancy is also hard in teen fathers. The stress of the pregnancy can put a strain on the relationship with the girlfriend or the parents. Teen fathers do not go as far in school and make less money when they get in the job market than teens who do not father children. Even though they are young, they have to face up to adult responsibilities like supporting the mother emotionally and financially during her pregnancy and helping to raise their child. They're financially responsible for their children until the children turn 18.

Once a girl is pregnant, there is no easy choice. The very best thing is to help your son or daughter avoid getting pregnant, or getting someone pregnant, in the first place.

Why Do Teens Want To Get Pregnant So Bad For Response

I think that some of the questions were pretty good and basic questions many people would ask someone who wants to be pregnant. I know some of the questions were the same as mine. I also think that the answers answered my questions, but I still don't understand why people would want to have a life like that. I would have liked to know what this teen had realized when she was 30 since she said that she had realized many things. I still think that when people want to do something like this they don't know what they are up against until the time comes when they are stuck in the position and can't get out. Not having a job would be a very bad thing when you have a kid. I think that people need to look at the long run and see what the results could be for them and their baby. Also on the site, there were responses to the stories, and some of the people had pretty strong feelings about wanting to get pregnant so young, they were pretty interesting.

Why Do Teens Want To Get Pregnant So Bad For?

From Yahoo Answers, from real teens.

Some of the questions people asked:
1) What are they thinking?
2) Why do they want a baby so soon in life? They can't even get a job or drive a car.
3) Their life hasn't even begun, why do they want to end their freedom so young and best of all?
4) Why do idiot teens who are already pregnant give them advise to get pregnant when their life isn't together as it is?
5) What will they gain having a baby?
6) What happened to the get a job, live on your own, grow up and have fun, support yourself, get married, buy a house and have a family?

The answer:
This girl was a teen mom of a planned pregnancy, who became pregnant at 17 while planning her marriage. She said that it wasn't supposed to happen the way it did. They took expert advice and said that it would take a few months or more to become pregnant. They also had some delays on the marriage classes. She was 7 months pregnant at her wedding and says that she wouldn't change her choices or her life.
She said that she was thinking that she was in a loving, committed relationship, with the means to care for a child. She wanted to be a mother, had two vehicles and was supporting herself. She didn't end her freedom at a young age, and didn't miss the bar scene and doing the stupid things that most young people do. She says that she would never advise any teen to become pregnant and now that she is 30 she has realized many many things. The arguments for becoming a teen mom aren't that great. She gained the exact same things as every other mom did. She did not have a job, she owned her home mortgage at 18, was married, and has supported herself without any monetary help since she has moved out of her parents house. (posted two weeks ago)

Ms. S. comments

Ashley - I checked and recorded this blog for blog #5. I still need #6 and this week is #7. Thanks.
Ms. S.

Annie's Baby Response

I think that it was cool to do something new instead of finding a web page. The book took a little longer but it was a good story. It had everything to do with my topic. It was about teen pregnancy and how a young girl ended up the way she did and what she did when she had the baby. I think that what she did in the end was a responsible thing to do. She had a very rough situation with the guy she was with and what he did to her and the outcome of it. She was trying as hard as she could to maintain a somewhat normal life and take care of a baby at the same time. I thought that it had a good story to it.