9 years old and pregnant?!?....?!
Question: Now that I've got your attention....
I'm just wondering what's going on with the world. The amount of questions in Women's Health about pregnancy seems really ridiculous. I'm not trying to be mean or offend anyone but I just don't get it.
All these little girls who don't even know how sex works or why they have a period. And they're asking if they're pregnant. Do schools not have sex ed classes anymore? Even so, don't their parents inform them? We know kids are having sex younger and younger but we ignore it and don't teach them. I knew exactly how my body, the male body, and sex worked before I ever got my first period.
But the full grown women are just as bad. They have unprotected sex or use the pull out method. Then ask if they're pregnant. I personally cannot confirm pregnancy through your typing. And the symptoms between early pregnancy and your period are so close. What do they expect we're going to tell them? All we can say is go to the doctor.
Anyone have any insight on this?
Answers: Now that I've got your attention....
I'm just wondering what's going on with the world. The amount of questions in Women's Health about pregnancy seems really ridiculous. I'm not trying to be mean or offend anyone but I just don't get it.
All these little girls who don't even know how sex works or why they have a period. And they're asking if they're pregnant. Do schools not have sex ed classes anymore? Even so, don't their parents inform them? We know kids are having sex younger and younger but we ignore it and don't teach them. I knew exactly how my body, the male body, and sex worked before I ever got my first period.
But the full grown women are just as bad. They have unprotected sex or use the pull out method. Then ask if they're pregnant. I personally cannot confirm pregnancy through your typing. And the symptoms between early pregnancy and your period are so close. What do they expect we're going to tell them? All we can say is go to the doctor.
Anyone have any insight on this?
hi jess, you posted a great question. When I use to work in fetal testing we had a 10 yr. old (no, I am not kidding) who was impregnated by her 14 yr. old bf. She was considered high risk due to her age. She kept the baby so they could collect welfare. Um , excuse me.....where are her parents? Whatever happened to adoption?? Aren't we suppose to be teaching our kids about becoming responsible adults? She was in no shape to be raising a child at all.
What also irked me also were the welfare pts. who came in, on their 14th (yes, I've seen it all) kid at the age of 40, and their bfs coming in w/the cells phones looking so important and wearing all that gold jewelry. It use to confuse alot of us when it came time to file charts with Baby A born to Mom A and Dad B instead of Baby A born to Mom A and Dad A. Why don't they get married instead of having hard working tax payers foot the bill. Wait, that would mean then they'd have to work. oops, my bad.
What it boils down to I think is this, the parents don't want to be responsible for their kids so they expect the schools to teach them. When the child gets into any kind of trouble, instead of stepping up & trying teach their children right from wrong, good morals, etc. they'd rather blame the educational system b/c it's much easier.
As for adult women having unprotected sex, they don't want to take responsibility for their actions so they take a pill treating their fertility as a disease & using it as "sex on demand". But if the contraception fails (and it DOES HAPPEN), then the woman usually gets blamed by her partner b/c it's her fault it failed or she's in denial that she is pregnant due to not saying NO in the first place (which is how pregnancies are prevented--ABSTINENCE)
I've seen so much while working on the OB/Gyn unit as well as billing medicaid. I feel bad for those children who have to go through life on their own w/o any good role models. (sigh)
its because parents stopped explaining things to kids and starting relying on the school to teach them everything.
and, the same parents allow full internet access to their kids with no supervision. and THATS how those stupid questions end up here.
not to mention -- some of the girls are retarded here. if they freaking think they're pregnant, why dont they just take a test instead of asking people they dont know about their body when all they need to do is pee on a stick??
bad parenting skills, and too much freedom with no home structure.
Go ask your mom.
i agree. however i think some women may just want comfort or people to talk to before they pee on the stick. maybe they dont have the courage to go get it yet and to avoid embarassment they as people online.
Schools only give out information on how the body works. They do not share ANYTHING about having sex. Parents should be there for there kids and explain to them the information. When I was little and the permission slip to take that class came home, my mom took me on a car drive and explained it to me. I liked how she told me a little bit at a time instead of shocking me by spilling out all he information at once- and she was honest with me and I think that is the best method. But I don't think lots of girls have education anymore in other countries- which is just sad.
I remember I used to think that a girl could get pregnant if she loved someone but she didn't have to do anything physically, so I was afraid to have crushes. I think that younger girls think similar and if there parents don't take action and tell them then they will think the same.
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~Chocolate Dream
I AM WITH YOU 100%. i get that kids are curious but it seems they should know a lot more by now!!
SMileMorn...I agree with you completely...
hmmm... my mom answered my questions when i had them and is still very good about it. so i guess i can't really answer that part of it...
as for sex ed in school, it wasn't until my last 2 years of high school that i had teachers who were in touch with reality enough to push the fact that people need to use real and reliable contraception--especially condoms--and gave the REAL success and failure rates (and i'm not sure they were even supposed to mention it) which has obviously been essential in making informed decisions about which birth control to use, but i think it should be taught well before the age of 16 or 17. so when it comes to these younger girls, they just aren't getting the real facts from school but are assuming that what they learn there is true, and therefore don't feel the need to ask their mothers.
omg if your 9 and pregnant you should def tell your mom
don't put subjects that have nothing to do with your question you tard