Comments on: Should Schools Make Concessions for Pregnant Teens?

By: Titanium Dragon

Titanium Dragon — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 06:30:22 +0000

Here’s the deal:

If you get pregnant and you’re a teenager, you should have an abortion.

If you don’t, then its your own problem, not the school’s. I’m sorry, its as simple as that.

I, the taxpayer, am happy to help pay for sex education and free condoms for high schoolers. I am not going to pay for them to be pregnant, though, and its unreasonable for them to expect otherwise.

Whoever whined about their “honor student” daughter really doesn’t get it. It is as simple as that. She should have had an abortion. If she refused to have one, then clearly, while an “honor student”, she obviously wasn’t very intelligent – hardly shocking, given the standards in schools these days, especially given she could have been an “honor student” without taking advanced coursework. She should have had an abortion before it became an issue.

By: Malorie

Malorie — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:46:02 +0000

All of you’ll full of it! I dont think pregnant teens should go to regular school. why the hell they having sex at ages 13-17. If your woman enough to take it well your woman enough to make it on your own. I go to High school, I am a honor student and it is very eye hurting to see 50 percent of the 9 graders pregnant. To add to that 45% of the 9th graders alone has sexual transmitted disease in my school and im speaking facts. Now if you do things old school and tell the teens they would be kicked out of school they would think 3 times before they open their legs.

And when Im in the lunch room and i want food I have to wait for the ton loads of pregnant teen go get their food.

By: TeSsAbELLdA*

TeSsAbELLdA* — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 19:51:55 +0000

i never realised how strongly people thought of teen pregnancy!!

By: Gayla McCord

Gayla McCord — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 08:33:58 +0000

@ Kathryn – I applaud teen mothers who take responsibility for their own actions – however, it’s a real common practice here in the states for teens to get pregnant and want to play house until the weekend rolls around or until they are too tired to get up with the baby – then suddenly the baby becomes the responsibility of the grandparent.

I’m sorry but I am NOT raising my grandkids. I want to enjoy them, spoil them and send them home!

I teach my kids that proven examples of responsibility on their part earns certain privileges like driving. I have two that are 15 and are nowhere near mature enough to have me want to even think about putting them behind the wheel of a car.

They can’t even handle that type of responsibility – I know they couldn’t handle a baby.

I’ve told my teens that if they get a girl knocked up they are either going to talk her into adoption or they can move in with her family if they allow her to keep the baby.

I think and hope I have my boys fearful enough of becoming a teen dad that they will follow my advice – NEVER trust a girl who says she’s on the pill. The ONLY thing they can trust and believe is the shot and that’s IF they see it go into the arm. Aside from that they are on their own for birth control – and to NEVER think that one time without won’t hurt anything.

By: Kathryn

Kathryn — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 22:51:31 +0000

I’m really sorry but you have way too much time on your hands. You have the cheek to insult and put down teen mums. Your one of the socially ignorant people on this Earth that pre-judges and discriminates against teenage mothers simply because you feel that you yourself are a better person than us. You encourage adoption but to be quite honest if we are ‘old enough to have unprotected sex’ as you say then we are good people to step up to the mark and take responsibilty for our actions. I did not get any special privilidges and I did not and will never expect them. You judge us and make put us into a socially imoral group based on your opinion. You obviously have not taken the time to meet every single teen mum in Britain so to be quite honest your opinion is based on bias not fact. Perhaps you should take the time to actually find out what you are whining about before you do. You are more childish than half the teen mums in the world because you are too childish and ignorant to open your eyes to the real world and face facts. There are mums in their 40’s whose children get taken into care yet i do not see you arguing for EVERY mother in their 40’s to give their children up for adoption. Don’t categorise young mums by others standards. We have the right to be judged solely on ourselves and not categorised. I did my GCSE’s a year early on the excellerated curiculum and I did them less than 2 weeks after giving birth. I will be goin back to school for my next year and my son will go to nursery. I was working in a cafe waitressing until I was 8 months pregnant and I do work while I care for my son ironing. I work hard to provide for my son and I do not ’sponge off the state’. It’s people like you that make teen mums wonder if its worth it. We get judged anyway and nobody appreciates that we are in exactly the same situation as any parent at any age. I will always do my best for my son no matter what you think. I know I am a good mum and I am proud to be a teen mum and will never regret anything. My son is the most precious and amazing thing in my life and your opinion will never alter anything I do or think. I hope someday you realise how small you are as a person and someone tries to put you down the way you try to do with teen parents.

By: D.A.

D.A. — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:05:35 +0000

we are all pissed about Spears being on OK, and blame a magazine for glorifying teen pregnancy, yet we glorify it in the schools. Maybe the mag was just trying to support Spears, like the public schools. Be more threatened about your emotional 15 yr old girl who gets dumped by her loser, non committed boyyfriend who sees her little teen friends getting special priviledges at school. How about that gov. enforced chld support? Teen girls think the courts can help keep dad around, or at least punish him for not being there. Go back to the 50s-stigmatize teen pregnancy and encourage adoption. Stop chasing guys around the courts to support some girl he was not legally bound to.

By: D.A.

D.A. — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:01:51 +0000

Teens, even poor ones, wear designer tag clothing, have cell phones, their own cars, yet they cant buy birth control and expect society to pick the tab up for them. These kids today know no real responsilbuty, and everything is done for them, provided to them, yet bleeding hearts want to pretened they are no different than girls who dont have “accidents” (which I dont buy for a minute-many of these are not accidents). I admire the teen moms who made it on their own, and were unselfish enough to not encourage other girls to think it is cool to have a kid. Too many of you teen moms and the grandmothers of these moms think society owes them something. We dont, and yes, a teen mom should be treated different than the poor girl who stays in school, does not get “accidentally” on purpose preggo. Blast me if ya will, but I no longer care. Same thing would apply to my girl if she got knocked up. She would not be proudly prancing around.

By: D.A.

D.A. — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:57:59 +0000

It is also hysterically funny that you teen mom posters (well, there are a few of you with sense) seem to think it is socieyt’s responsbiluty to baby you, help you get jobs, help give you special priviledges, free college when straight A students cannot even afford to go, etc. If you are old enough to have sex with a boy who is not your lawfully committed husband, you are old enough to make your own way or adopt it to somene who can. I pray for teen moms and wish them luck, but I am tired of encouraging teen parenting with all these special priviledges and demands.

By: D.A.

D.A. — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:55:19 +0000

Sorry, though I agree teens should be required to finish school, I think they should go to night school or homeschool. Yeah, it is “archaic” and old fashioned, but trust me, teen pregnancy spreads. These teen girls aren not victims, and as a soceity, we force the ideas of rubbers and pills, we provide them in schools, there are plenty of free clinics, and yet theys still choose to have unsafe sex with men they are not legally or morally committed to. We have bent over backwards to “help” teens and the result-more teens getting pregnanct cuz they know it is socially acceptable, and bleeding hearts will make speical accomodations for them. THe aclu nuts will sue, but I no longer care. If my daughter gets pregnant, sure, I will love her, but her butt will not be showing her big belly to other girls. Yes, that is old fahsioned, but ya know what, all throughout history it has worked. In the fifties, a girl was either shipped off or she gave that kid up for adoption (which, for some reason, is considered less socially acceptable than being a parent at 14). You cannot drive, cant vote, cant drink booze or smoke cigs-if you are a teen from an unstable home with no support, a smart society would encourage adoption. I am tired of teen baby showers, teen mom this, teen mom that. We have failed morally- not educationally.

By: Kathryn

Kathryn — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:18:46 +0000

I’m a pregnant teen and I think this is silly. I’m 14 and nearly 6 months pregnant. I’m working, doin gmy GCSE’s a year early and I am staying in school until February. I don’t get any concessions at all other than I do not have to participate in P.E. I am working hard at work and hard at school and I don’t see why pregnant teens should be segregated because of the simple fact that we are pregnant. it isn’t catching and we can do just as well as everyone else. I have saved over £500 by myself through my job because I have saved every penny and worked as often as I can. I would rather work hard to provide for my baby than be stuck on benefits that you are paying me through your taxes. Some people obviously feel that is a silly idea. It is foolish people like you who don’t realise what it is like for young parents. It’s attitudes like this that prevent us from getting decent jobs and gettin goff of benefits. I am giving birth late April time and still entering my GCSE’s in May and I am determined to prove to people with such attitudes that we are worth a lot more than segregation!!!