For moms of teens or for teens? Please Answer.?

Question

My little sister is 16 and she has a boyfriend and we are worried because she seems to be totally obsessed with getting pregnant, being pregnant, movies/shows about pregnant teens, anything having to do with someone or herself being pregnant. Is this normal? Have you ever heard of this?

Answer 1

Yes, there are a lot of movie stars who are becoming pregnant while unmarried and at a young age.  News reports seem to gloss over the fact that these people have huge amounts of money with which they can solve the normal, everyday problems the rest of us just have to face and work through.

My daughter is 19 and has wanted a baby for a couple of years.  She isn't risking pregnancy.  When she mentions it I just remind her that becoming a parent is not a lot of fun when you are completely unprepared for it.

Answer 2

Some teens do really want to have kids but they don't realize they aren't ready for this. Show her a video of a woman in labor. That might scare her straight until she's actually ready.

Answer 3

i say show her how it is to be whith a baby 24/7

Answer 4

Not out of the norm for some girls at that age.  My girls, now 22 and 23 never went through that at all.

I think it really shows a need for her to feel love.  Are both parents in the home? Does she have issues with one or something like that?

Geez, did you happened to catch the NBC show The Baby Borrowers???  Go to their web site and see if she can watch it.  It was amazing what it did for those teens when they had to take care of babies.

Answer 5

I don't think it's abnormal. I'm not "obsessed" with pregnancy, but it is something I think about a lot. I was not sure for several of my teenage years if I would ever want to have children, but I suddenly decided that I definitely did, and since then I've thought about it a lot. However, I plan to be responsible about it, and I hope your sister is, too.

Answer 6

Yes; actually it is a strange trend occurring throughout the states.

Some teens are finding being pregnant glamorous.

A lot of people are blaming this one the movie JUNO, which I find ridiculous because that movies shows the hardships of being pregnant.

However, I think it's happening because of Jamie Spears, and the other teen celebrities being preg.

Answer 7

Well maybe she wants to control her boyfriend by telling him that they have a baby together and he can't leave her. Also when i was in high school allot of girls where pregnant maybe if theres girls at her school pregnant that may have something to do with it I know i wished i could be pregnant while i was in school.