Hey .. Better pregnant now than later?

Question

This is a hypothetical outlook... I was just thinking about how it seems like so many girls aged 14-16, sometimes even younger, are getting pregnant. I got into deep analytical thought about it for the first time. Could it maybe, POSSIBLY be better to have a child that young rather than wasting most of your adult life raising it? Like, if you are 14, your kid will be moved out and on its own by the time the mother is 34. Then she has a big chunk of life to look forward to! And the teenage years are pretty much the crappiest years of life anyway... Why not use them to raise a kid and live later?

Answer 1

bc then u cant get an education and u cant enjoy your youth and when u r 14 u r not emotinally ready to have s*x or raise a child, u r still in middle school at that age.so no its not a good idea but good thinking i guess.

Answer 2

if you have someone to support you, like your kids father, it's always ok to have a kid anytime!!

But it would be best for you the kid and the society to hold on until you are mature enough to grow this kid properly cz if you check around usually kids with crappy mothers turn out to be worst kind of people!!!

It's always up to you though.

Answer 3

Uhm no.....14 is a child and way to young to work full time and without highschool good luck on welfare or part time at McDonalds.  The timeline sounds good, but at 14 you should be trying on makeup and looking forward to dating, NOT raising a baby.  Girls that young can have all sorts of medical problems related to pregnancy and birth as well.  Most people are not set to raise a child until about 20 - 30.  Even then it's difficult at times.  It would be better to wait until they have highschool, a solid job WITH stability and possible growth and somewhere to live.  At 14 the father likely won't be around and they'll be a single parent and they'll have to feed the baby and all the stuff that comes with it.  Babies need A LOT of attention and at 14, about 90 % of girls are way too selfish.  Why not live your adult life until 34 and THEN have a baby?

Answer 4

I see several big holes in that theory, the first one being that children should not be raising children.  You are looking at this from the perspective of what might be best for the mother, but not the child that would be created, or the girl's parents, who will end up being burdened with the task of raising someone else's child.

Having a baby and raising a child is more than just giving birth.  How are you supposed to provide for a baby and all of their emotional, physical, and financial needs when you can't even work?  And when you are spend most of your day in school?  If you are living at home, relying on your parents or the government to pay your expenses, sending your child to the on-campus daycare while you finish high school, and leavinghimat homewith your parents while you work your crappy, minimum wage, part-time job, are you really raising that child?  And if you think teen years are crappy, do you honestly think that having a baby too young is going to HELP the situation?  Besides, if everyone followed your model, you wouldn't be enjoying your adult years--you would be 28-35 years old, and instead of raising children, you wouldbe raising your grandchildren, after your own 15 year-old daughter came home and announced she was pregnant.  

But what is the saddest thing is that you think child-rearing years are "wasted" time.

Answer 5

LIFE is not as simple as your hypothetical question. Raising a kid is more than that. You are so ignorant about life. Much more about raising a NEW LIFE here on earth.

Answer 6

com on at a young age like dat wat can you possibly do it is really hard to find a job so you can have money for u and your child people love to talk about you and at night wen u jus want to relax it woulnt b any of dat it would be work

Answer 7

Later