Do you think teenage parents are able to do the job?

Question

well i had to ask this question because i was a teen mom and i was always getting critisized and looked down on. I have to agree with most of yall I did a good job I didnt abandon or abuse my baby girl shes healthy. thank you all for your opinions

Answer 1

With solid positive support YES/ .  They are great.  Without that, not always.  Just had a news story about a mother who abandoned her sleeping 2 year old in his stroller in a park  Her note read "just can't do it maown self an' I got no one who help me."  She is 16 or 17, they think.  She will be facing charges of child abandonment.  I don't think that is a solution.    

the wonderment of an infant soon wears off.  By the age of 5 months a single mother is overwhelmed by  The daily caring for an infant who is barely standing up by themselves, or a new walker or a toddler who slips into the kitchen and plays with bug spray under the sink because Mom forgot to put it somewhere else because too much is going on and she has to do laundry sometime.  I knew one single teen mother who bragged about leaving her 2 year old locked in her  one room apartment so she could go to the laundromat.   It was her only solution. And the only break she got from caring for her child.  She would run down the street and check on the child, but for an hour or more the child was unsupervised.  Sometimes she would get to chatting up a young service man and time would get away, and one of her neighbors would come down and scream at her "Aint you gonna go home an feed that chile of yours?"  end of romance.

Single teen moms have so much MORE pressure and lack of time, lack of planning skills, lack of be able to finish educations than girls who got married shortly after having the baby or have a responsible fiance. I am noticing that most of the 'single teen mothers who write in about how easy they have it either have layers of relatives as protection against burn out, or are now living with the fathers of their babies.  Technically they count as single moms, but they aren't really,  the baby's father is there, helping.  

There is a reason children need two parents.  

Think about it.  We are not as nuturing as mother penguins are.  Non of us would sit and starve and wait for our mates to return to raise our broods so we could go back to the ocean again.

One of the other major problems is serial babies.  I Know girls who have three children before they are 18.  "I just miss having a baby around."   That is not a good excuse for having children you cannot afford to raise.

Answer 2

it depends how much support the parents have man!!!

Answer 3

Yes they are able to do the job. Some of them won't be able to just like some adults won't be able to. I would not think that their abilities were limited because of their age.  

Answer 4

Some..just as some adults can and some cannot. I would say there are more teenagers than people in their 30's that cannot do the job. I had my son when I was 17 and I do the best I can which I think is a pretty d**n good job. It all depends on the person. A lot of teenagers like to party and are not mature enough to handle a child. I on the other hand stay home with my son almost every weekend, and when I finally do get a chance to hang with my friends, it's just dinner and a movie. I despise parents, teenager or not, that still think they have a right to go out every weekend and get drunk while their kids are with friends/family. I set the best example that I possibly can for my son. He is my world and I wouldn't change a thing. So basically, as long as you're ready and willing to raise your baby in the best way you can, then the job will be done :)

Answer 5

99 times out of 100, no, they are too wrapped up in their own lives to take proper care of a baby.

Answer 6

i would have to agree with jv or whatever it is even though some people may be older it don't automatically make then a good parent!!! i personally think i am a good teen mom and do the job well as well as going to school and working i am also a single mother it all depends on what you do and how you go about it and make the best decision there is

Answer 7

some can..

some can't..

Answer 8

i certainly think they can, i am an eighteen year old mother of two i graduated high school, i am working as a pharmacy tech and i will be starting college in january, i take well care of my children, feed them bathe them play with both of them cook dinner for my children and husband and clean my home. just because i am eighteen doesn't mean i'm wrapped up into "my own life" my children are my life. and i bet i am a better mother than some women who may be thirty and can't even take care of themselves!!!!

Answer 9

Just like adults some can be great parents and others can be awful.  Being a teenager does not automatically mean you will be a bad parent nor does being an adult automatically mean you will be a good one.  As a teen parent you do have more challenges to face than the average adult parent but if you can face them with maturity and overcome them you will make a fine parent.

Answer 10

yes they can.

They are the same as anyone alts really age has no braining on if you are a good parent or not but your actions.

Good luck  

Answer 11

Some yes. Others no. Depends on the person, like with any parent. Just because you are older doesn't make you a better parent.

Answer 12

some, but some adults r unable 2 do the job also, my cuz is 17 n loves her baby more then the world n would do anything 4 him n has a job 2 support him but some teens n adults dont it all depends on what kind of person they r