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<blockquote data-quote="mattsmom27" data-source="post: 32462" data-attributes="member: 50"><p>This is scary, how early these things are cropping up in our children. I'll tell you, although I thank God every day for difficult child in my life, it was HE$@ being pregnant at 17 years old and being a single mom at 18 years old. I doubt it would have been much easier even if difficult child's father had given a hoot and contributed. Kids these days have no concept, it seems LESS concept than when I had difficult child. Back in my teens, SOME teens were getting pregnant and it was still somewhat "taboo" and definitly frightening for girls like me who became pregnant. I wish I had not been sexually active so young in my life.</p><p>It seems kids are sexually active SOOO young nowadays, and pregnancy isn't "Scary" to most girls anymore. It unfortunatly seems "cool" to alot of teen girls, and I want to rattle them and tell them just how not cool it is in reality to be faced with a responsability as huge as a child when you haven't even gotten your feet wet in life yet. Unfortunatly, girls do hear those stories but think they somehow will escape difficulties and all would come easy to them. Fearless! </p><p>difficult child is in grade 8, the kids are 13-14. Most are sexually active, if not "fully" active, their level of "intimacy" is shocking. There are only a few girls in difficult child's class who haven't lost their virginity, and many who have already been with several young boys. They brag about it to each other, like having sex is cool and who have you been with, and who do you want to be with, etc. I have spyware on the computer and read MSN messages and I want to weep for these needy girls. </p><p>Any parent with any concerns at all that their daughters are reaching that stage in life, however crazy it might seem because their girls are so young, are very valid in their concerns. </p><p>I don't know how we are supposed to reach our teenagers on this topic. Of course to them they don't believe a word we say. It is worse from someone like me because I've heard "yeah, but even though it was hard, you made it, you did it alone, you didn't lose your kids" etc etc. How little they know the sacrifice, the fears, the panicking for rent, for diapers, the sleep issues, the loss of youth, the loss of education, the tons of things that I could have been doing at that age that would have prepared me more for parenthood much much later in life, not least of all having a father for my child that was mature enough to stick around and be a father! </p><p>The "invincibility" factor in teens this age makes me cringe.</p><p>I say we bundle all our teen girls onto a bus headed for an island until at least age 20!!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mattsmom27, post: 32462, member: 50"] This is scary, how early these things are cropping up in our children. I'll tell you, although I thank God every day for difficult child in my life, it was HE$@ being pregnant at 17 years old and being a single mom at 18 years old. I doubt it would have been much easier even if difficult child's father had given a hoot and contributed. Kids these days have no concept, it seems LESS concept than when I had difficult child. Back in my teens, SOME teens were getting pregnant and it was still somewhat "taboo" and definitly frightening for girls like me who became pregnant. I wish I had not been sexually active so young in my life. It seems kids are sexually active SOOO young nowadays, and pregnancy isn't "Scary" to most girls anymore. It unfortunatly seems "cool" to alot of teen girls, and I want to rattle them and tell them just how not cool it is in reality to be faced with a responsability as huge as a child when you haven't even gotten your feet wet in life yet. Unfortunatly, girls do hear those stories but think they somehow will escape difficulties and all would come easy to them. Fearless! difficult child is in grade 8, the kids are 13-14. Most are sexually active, if not "fully" active, their level of "intimacy" is shocking. There are only a few girls in difficult child's class who haven't lost their virginity, and many who have already been with several young boys. They brag about it to each other, like having sex is cool and who have you been with, and who do you want to be with, etc. I have spyware on the computer and read MSN messages and I want to weep for these needy girls. Any parent with any concerns at all that their daughters are reaching that stage in life, however crazy it might seem because their girls are so young, are very valid in their concerns. I don't know how we are supposed to reach our teenagers on this topic. Of course to them they don't believe a word we say. It is worse from someone like me because I've heard "yeah, but even though it was hard, you made it, you did it alone, you didn't lose your kids" etc etc. How little they know the sacrifice, the fears, the panicking for rent, for diapers, the sleep issues, the loss of youth, the loss of education, the tons of things that I could have been doing at that age that would have prepared me more for parenthood much much later in life, not least of all having a father for my child that was mature enough to stick around and be a father! The "invincibility" factor in teens this age makes me cringe. I say we bundle all our teen girls onto a bus headed for an island until at least age 20!! [/QUOTE]
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