I wanted to no what others views are on teenage pregnancy....I live in Lambeth, South London where it is almost becomin a fashion item to hav a kid at such a young age. Dont get me wrong many teenage girls are not like that. I myself am a 16 year old and have seen a primary school friend have a baby and various other girlz on the endz. There is also a boy that i was at skool with dat has TWO baby mothers and his only 18!....On the otherhand teenage mothers are automatically stereotyped as skets, sluts, junges, hoes etc and I personally don't think that is right....there are sum girls that give birth at that age who struggle to make endz meet but I give them respect for their courage and determination....what do you think about this issue especially as it continues to rise?..........

well souf london has da highest rate of teenage pregnancey im not no gunge im not loose either! But i tink evry situation is different but its not jus da gals fault either coz it takes 2 2 create a child!! So i agree with u dat teen mums shouldnt b labelled as gunges etc...coz da brehs need 2 allow der movments aswell as the gals n if u dnt want child dnt get wetted den! SIMPLE AS!!!! and derz 2 many kids growin up wid out parents or one missin like....kmt! but u cnt change pplz mentalities dey need 2 realsie dem selves of da consequences n wat dey r gettin demselves into wen dey r enjoyin dem 30 seconds or how eva long it is!!!!!

if girls wana get pregnant at a early age dats there bizniz if dey wana go bare bak let dem deal wit the consequeces it brings coz i personally wanafinish skool i of to work extra hard dis year coz my g.c.s.e.is coming up next year and bwoy its not even a messa bout now dat iam going into year 11 level its not a jokecoz iwant toachieve at least a c grade in the most threreimportant subects and i want to go colledge study access to nursing hoping to go to universery train to become a pediatrics nurse so if dey wana throw away there future and waste their education coz dey cant use protection dats their choice i aint got no time 4 babies and other girls pickiney so if dey dont want their parents to be pround of dem dats their choice b. peaceblkscholarniceone.gifclp)

No matter how common they are becoming, teenage pregnancies are STILL WRONG-regardless if the girl was a slut or not.

Just because it happens, doesnt make it right

My friend has just had a baby (26th July 2005) and was obviously pregnant during school and during sitting her GCSEs, she was subjected to a lot of staring and rude comments, but she's the kind of person who didn't really care. She's also the kind of person you'd expect not to get sensible "too clever for that". I personally think it's bad, and can badly affect your life. However, children should be celebrated and it's wrong to say that it will "ruin her life". Each person is an individual, and although for me it would be devestating to get pregnant, for other teenagers it's a blessing.

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What is a "gunge"? confused3

It's almost distressing when young people who don't know the real serious and complexity of certain things come out with all kinds of phrases and sayings to justify and trivialise certain things.

I think we all know the general affects of teenage pregnancies.

How many of our problems have people saying it was because parents were children themselves when they had kids ?

And let's not talk about the affect it has on the child when it is not brought up within the right structured environment.

Too many of these young girls want to treat their babies as objects and because of their age cannot comprehend the seriousness of bringing and nurturing another human being into this world. And some think its some kind of status thing to be the 'black single mother'to make herself look goodwhen she shouldn't have put herself in the position where she could have conceived a child in the first place.

Young people need to get educated on these things before young girls start opening their legs.

@ Pharcelle

What additional penalties of shame or consequence can we add to teenage boys to put the fear of dad into them where dad is not there himself?

How can we as individuals or a community put pressure on or shame boys away from sexing girls in the first place? Without governmental interferance or help...

Where to even begin if the teenage girls themselves see nothing wrong with being pregnant teen single mothers in the first place?

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I think we all know the general affects of teenage pregnancies.

You know what? I doubt that, I seriously doubt that.

I think teenage pregnancies are wrong for a variety of reasons. Children having children is not a good combination. Trying to raise a child when they haven't fully grown themselves is just....wrong.

Some teenagers are too quick to want to move out into the real world and grow up before they should. I personally know two teenage girls that have already moved out and have had babies and they're only 17! One of the main problems they've experienced are financial. It's a common thing that teenagers nowadays are more concerned with fashion and "garms"..coming out with things like "My baby's gonna be rocking timbs blud"..or whatever other labels come into their mind. These people would buy designer clothes for their babies before stocking up on food. Placing fashion as a priority over food?! That ain't right maynn. A lot of teenagers haven't had to take on as much responsibility as a fully grown adult has, and therefore could find it a lot harder to adapt to becoming a mother (or parents), which could result in doing a bad job of it. Raising unruly children because they were unsure how to discipline them, as they may not even be sure how to diffrentiate right from wrong themselves. Their children would behave the way their teenage parents behave, which is not always the behaviour of someone who is ready to take on the real world, or parenthood. Teenagers need to sort their lives out first, study, get a job or whatever, get their house or their residence first, and have some sort of financial stability before they think about bringing a next life into the world.


I can't really say that all teenage mothers are skets, sloths etc etc, because a lot of it boils down to..stupidity, or as a result of them being too naive to know what they're getting themselves into. I call it stupidity when they choose not to use protection, or if they can't be bothered to use protection, or are unsure of what they're doing but will still go ahead and do it without reassuring themselves. I call it naive when they're simply oblivious to the consequences of not using protection..but then again...I don't think I know anyone who doesn't know the consequences of that. When a Year 10 girl in my last school got pregnant...she was called a sket, hoe, loose etc etc. But in this case....I kinda thought she was, because she was paid to have sex with this guy, and she told me this, basically she got pregnant by subjecting and degrading herself to the level of prostitution. So when people started calling her names...I didn't disagree, because that was just..lack of self respect, and downright nastiness. However, a lot of teenagers are simply mislead, or mis-informed, or are plain and simple...stupid.

The thing is that too many young black people are allowed to sit in front of MTV, Channel U and all those other channels that teach them loose morals and too much of a lax atittude when it comes to sex. They take sex away from any relationship it has with marriage, family, parenting, upbringing, community, culture/indentity etc etcetc, isolate andturn it into a commodity so that its just an extremely pleasurable thing that has a power over us and that power then has catastrophic results when its not in its right place relating to marriage, family, parenting, upbringing, community, culture/identity etc etcetc.

Kids having kids is just wrong in so many ways. So much domino effect damage is done as the situation effects the two parents, the childs upbringing and ultimatley the childs future choice.

Trust me it not just their 'biz' or 'their problem' its all of ours if you are part of the black society. Whenan 18 year old has 3 children, or two friends have the same baby father,or when a stay away dad fathers several children that is several people growing up in the black comminuty who r destined to make misjudgedbig choices that could effect you or your children when your ready to have them.

The fact that many young people are still learning life lessons when they have these children means they are destined to pass on the same ignorance to their children. There is also a high chance that they will not cope very well both emotionall & finacially. We are then destined to have a whole generation who does not respect family values, have any sense of culture or who even have no clue how to have any productive relationships. We should be scared when young jobless mums and absent dads are the norm in our society. Its simple it doesn't equal to a productive society and it does not work.

Part of the solution surley must be within breaking the cycle. If young people are shown what they can achieve and its seen as a reachable goal then they might not just wanna settle for being a young mum struggling to get by. If they had role models - people in good jobs, living good lives or even beening able to see black people from their own areas that are happliy married or living together. Maybe then this could set the standard. Maybe instiling some ambition in these kids could mean that they want more from their life then bringing up a child alone or fathering childrenthey never see.

fair enough ur an intelligent person but every one got their own opinions so ihad to state minewat i thought and how i felt about the situation peace