13 year old boy and 15 year old girl have a child?! WTF!!!

I had similar education in school as Zephayra did, especially from my parents, until high school when I had a teacher that was religious and was very insistent on scheduling abstinence-only presentations. Even before that though, I was fairly aware of things sexually because I often asked questions, and my mother gave me age appropriate answers. I think part of the problem is that people think sex education to younger children is going to be as graphic as it would be with high school students or something, when in reality, it should be just enough to answer the questions that they might have. Just like any other kind of education really, going into enough depth to what the children at that age can handle.

I remember being maybe 6 or 7 when my mother found out she was pregnant again, and told me I might have a little brother or sister, but she miscarried about a month or so later, and she told me. I asked what would happen now, and she told me the baby would dissolve and come out when she went to the bathroom. I didn't really understand enough of it then, but it was enough to stem my curiosity and I accepted the answer she gave me. As I got older, I understood it more and I saw what she was trying to tell me.

I'm only 19 now, almost 20, and a lot of the people I went to school with are having or have already had children, and I'm not sure how to feel about it. A close friend is having her second child (with a different father), and she's 17. It makes me feel like I should be rushing to have kids, even though I don't want them at all, especially not this young. It's a hard cycle to break because I think a lot of young women probably feel the same way as I do. At the same time, another friend got pregnant near the end of our Junior year, and at first it was rough for her, her family was religious so she had to have the baby, but after a little while she really showed strength and confidence, and went on to have her son, graduate high school, and go on to college. I knew a few people like that who handled it well, but for all those few, I worry about how many more don't take it well, and who struggle because they genuinely didn't know the risks.

It seems as though people want to sweep the problems under the rug, that if you ignore the fact that young teens are having sex, that it won't happen. If you just tell them to not do it, it won't happen. It creates a lot of barriers for teens, who are just finding places to rebel. I feel the same way about alcohol, that it's necessary to be taught how to drink responsibly, rather than expect someone to suddenly "grow up" and just "know" how things work. Knowledge should be passed on, not denied.
 
I learned the process through my own curiosity (and via books), when I was 7 or 8 years old. My 3rd grade class was studying the human body, and I was curious about where babies came from, and was very good with phonetics.

I knew what a penis was, I knew what a vagina was, and by reading books myself, I was able to discern what went where and how it all worked.

Needless to say, when I spread the word around class and everyone in school, most kids thought it was gross.
 
I learned about sex and babies from my pugs when I was probably about 7 or 8. Then our Mom had our little brother when we were 9. My parents never really had the talk with us other than us seeing what happened to the pugs.

My sister teaches at a private, Christian school in SC and they have started doing abstinence based classes but they will answer questions that the students have about condoms, STDs, and anything else the kids ask about I think they are doing this for the 7th grade and they split the grade up into an all boy classroom and an all girl classroom for this class which lasted one period during a week. I remember talking about it in Health class in the 10th grade there but I don't remember an abstinence class. I think that it's good that the teachers will answer questions that the kids have sex but if the kids are too afraid to ask then they might not get the information that they need. I am glad that no parents have freaked out about these classes. I think the parents were able to get their kids out of the classes if they wanted but I don't think any did. Teenagers need to be educated about sex and what can happen if they choose to do it. Yeah it most probably won't scare them from doing it but at least it might help the kids have the information they need to prevent STDs and pregnancy.
 
Of course...they must have learned sex from playing Saint's Row II,
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The four-footer -- who looks no more than eight -- said: "I know I'm young, but I plan to be a good dad."


As he went on the PlayStation with 15-year-old girlfriend Chantelle Steadman, he added: "I think we'll be good parents. I'll have to work extra hard at school."

Chantelle looked up from 18-rated action game Saints Row II to admit her first night out of hospital since having 7lb 3oz daughter Maisie had been tough and had left her "in a daze".
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http://kotaku.com/5154088/i-know-im-young-but-i-plan-to-be-a-good-dad
 
That really is a joke. You have all these hard working couples struggling to have babies and this thing is bought to 2 very undeserving kids.

God help that baby.
 
I believe there is an inverse proportionality between a woman's fertility and her capability to raise a child.

A well-adjusted woman in a dual income family making over six figures combined with a beautiful house in a great neighborhood will probably have a hard time conceiving and need to spend tens of thousands of dollars seeing a fertility doctor.

A teenager or a single woman in her 20s with a very low income job will get pregnant on the first try when they're not even trying.

This goes double if the woman has mental/emotional issues.
 
Stine said:
I learned about sex and babies from my pugs when I was probably about 7 or 8. Then our Mom had our little brother when we were 9. My parents never really had the talk with us other than us seeing what happened to the pugs.

My sister teaches at a private, Christian school in SC and they have started doing abstinence based classes but they will answer questions that the students have about condoms, STDs, and anything else the kids ask about I think they are doing this for the 7th grade and they split the grade up into an all boy classroom and an all girl classroom for this class which lasted one period during a week. I remember talking about it in Health class in the 10th grade there but I don't remember an abstinence class. I think that it's good that the teachers will answer questions that the kids have sex but if the kids are too afraid to ask then they might not get the information that they need. I am glad that no parents have freaked out about these classes. I think the parents were able to get their kids out of the classes if they wanted but I don't think any did. Teenagers need to be educated about sex and what can happen if they choose to do it. Yeah it most probably won't scare them from doing it but at least it might help the kids have the information they need to prevent STDs and pregnancy.
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I went to Catholic School from K - 12. We had sex ed in 5th grade that was pretty open and honest, but not graphic or anything. Both boys and girls were in the same class. The most notable thing was when one of the twin boys in our class told the rest of the class that his twin brother only had one testicle. Awkward...

We also had sex ed my Freshman year of highschool. Both times, abstinence was the preferred birth control method, but other means of birth control were discussed. My 5th grade teacher seemed more realistic about it then the teacher in highschool; she was also a lot younger than the 70 year old highschool teacher, though, too.
 
She looks like a right idiot in that picture.
 
Why aren't they even looking at the child? Holding a child in your arms like that while doing something else would make it possible for you to get used to the weight and forgot to hold on eventually when you turn around.
 
Parents of the century right there.
 
Gerry said:
It still makes me wonder who'd want to hit that. She looks like a monstrosity! O_O
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She obviously took advantage of him. He doesn't look like he'd know what he was doing.
 
wasn't the youngest girl to get pregnant 9? hmm.. but ya, this story is a shame :\ I hate how people can't control themselves more and more these days.. need better parenting -_-
 
The results of the DNA test haven't be told yet so we're still in the dark about if this kid is the real father.
 
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