Child of Teenage Parents

I got pregnant at 18 and had my son at 19. I definitely wasn't emotionally ready but I couldn't imagine someone else raising him. I agree with everyone who said it is maturity and being emotionally ready. I am extremely mature for my age but I wish I was more emotionally ready. He is still a happy, healthy, and loved eight month old. :)

My friend Stacie had her daughter Abby at 16. Abby is turning three this year. The moment she found out she was pregnant she went to school, got a job, and raised her daughter on her own. She is a college graduate, still raising Abby on her own, has her own place to live. I can't even describe how amazing Abby has turned out.

My mom was 16 and my dad had just turned 18. I don't really know what to think about it... I had a pregnancy scare at 18 and flipped out, I can't really see how people can have kids at such a young age, it's crazy to me. I mostly just attribute that to the fact that I'm just not fond of bringing another life into this world at all.

I do, however, know a lot of people who have had kids at young ages. One specific couple where around around 15 or 16 and they've done a great job with their daughter. I always make it a point to praise them when I see them because the rest of my childbearing friends have their priorities mixed up.

As for my parents? Well... I wish they'd had me when they were really ready, or had at least given me up to my grandpa like he had suggested they do. My mom runs around trying to be my best friend/dictator all at once and since my dad wasn't around much he babies me. I love them, but I feel like they needed time to mature.

My mom was 19 when she ran away with my dad who was 24 and that year they had me. I guess you could say they did okay. My dad alreadt had a good job in the family biz. A year later they had my brother and somehow four years later my mom became a drug addict and she left my father taking me and my brother. Things were good till we came to America.

I moved out of my father's and in with my husband the weekend I discovered I was pregnant. The house is in his mother's man until he is 18 in April, but him, my daughter, his younger brother we have also been raising, and I are the only ones living here. We pay our own bills and support ourselves 100%. So it frustrates me to see such awful stereotypes about teen mothers. I work my ass off, being looked down upon sucks. Also my parents were adults, my mum is a drug addict and I was practically raised by my brother.

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Maybe I'm not taking this in the same context but I'm the friend of a teenage mother and I personally think that the boy is going to grow up to be very intelligent. I mean the Mum has all of her friendsaround to be able to help her out and she has her parents there as well, she's still going to college and she's been given a possible entry to University (as long as she hits her marks and targets). I don't quite understand why people have such a negative standing about teenage mums :/.