The Reality

Although its extremely difficult situation for teens to deal with, approximately 10% of girls under 19 get pregnant. Many girls are terrified to tell their parents that some never do, and the parents don't find out until the girl is in labor. And many get pregnant with the hopes that the father will stay around and in many cases when the father finds out he abandons the mom and the baby, Many teens once they find they are pregant experience many emotions, hopelessness,guilt,angry,depressed and shame. Speaking from personal experience it is the most difficult decision to make whether to keep the baby or not. And each teen that is in this situation has different life situations and many different reasons running through their minds when left to make this decision. For me it was based on what the father of my son had to say, considering he was older than me and I was young and thought I was in love. My parents, especially mother tried to convince me not to go threw with having the baby because she had me when she was a teen and it was not easy for her to raise me and she did not want to see me experience the same thing. In the end no matter who says what..These teen moms are going threw so many emotions that sometimes its fair to say they make the wrong decision. I had one teenage mom who was a student at a school for pregant teens, that I posed the questions to, What things played a role in her making a decision to have the baby? And her response was she "I don't know" she stated she was so taking over by emotion from friends, family, boyfriend that she made the decision without thinking it threw and although she loved of her baby, if she could she would have given it more thought and not have chosen to keep the baby. There are so many aspects in having a baby especially as a teen. How will you finish school? How will you work? How will you take care of your baby? What if your parents put you out? Or what about the teens who have no family or parents. Most teenage girls who get pregant and don't have family and parents who care or are involved usually make a decision to keep the baby to have someone to love them, someone to be with them when they feel lonely and they assume the baby will fill this void they have been missing from absent parents or boyfriends.