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Teen Pregnancy Is a Fact of Life?

March 31, 2010

Hot Topic: Are the Teen Years Optimum For Pregnancy?

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Hilary Mantel, author of Wolf Hall and An Experiment in Love, recently told an interviewer that societal norms are preventing women from birthing babies when they are physically able – in their teens. Do you agree?

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3 years 7 weeks

I'm disturbed by the topic and the assumption that "kids under 18 years old" are having kids. How do you "have" kids? You have sex. Kids aged 14 are likely not to be virgins as they are. It's about 50/50. If they're old enough to have sex, they'll have kids themselves. We're looking at this the wrong way. The sin is not having sex - because they're going to do it, and have done it, in spite of the past 20 years of being told to wait. The sin is not telling them the consequences of their actions. Of not giving them the tools to prevent disease and pregnancies in the act. Of not guiding them that they should have sex with people that they have a great affection or even love for. Right now, it's a forbidden fruit. Those are always REALLY tasty! People that don't know better will get into trouble. We need better communications with our kids. That means talking WITH our kids, not TO our kids.