Teen Pregnancy

[Lilli]

Hey girls!! I'm making this thread because every girl in the 8th grade at our school will be talked to about pregnancy and all that tomorrow. Of course, ever since i was in sixth grade every student had to take a health course about sex and all the risks like pregnancy and STDs for one semester. But for some reason, girls at our school are PREGNANT!!! There are sixth, seventh, and eighth graders pregnant at our school. But most of them are sixth graders!! Sixth graders at our school are like 11 and 12!! And all of their boyfriends, are OLDER than them by a at least 3 or more years!!! Which can be illegal depending on his age!!! What I'm trying to say here is, be careful. Don't do anything that could end up like this. It's quite a shocker if you were to know where I come from!! When most people think of my town they think little girls in frilly dresses and their dress boots(of course!! gotta have that touch of redneck in there!!) and boys who are so respectful and kind standing outside of a church, not 15 and 16 year old boys getting 11 year old girls pregnant!! I know it's not 1956 anymore, but this is just so odd and not what our town is like, but now that's how people see it.

[dancer101]

Lilli iam with you on preveting teen pregnancy. its a big problem in the U.S.
every girl should about stds and how to prevent them.
i think every girl should know how to use a condom its just basic knowledge that could help prevent stds and becoming pregant.

IF ANYBODY WANTS TO KNOW A GOOD SITE ON BIRTH CONTROL JUST PM i can send you the link
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[ZBerg2.0]

Oh wow, Lilli, you have SIXTH GRADERS at your school, PREGNANT?!?!?
I'M in 6th grade. I haven't even gotten my period.
I just read a book about a girl whose best friend got pregant, but she was 16. ELEVEN YEAR OLDS?!?!

[Lilli]

I know!! It's insane, but you have to remember that every girl develops at a different rate. One of my friends got her first period at 8, but she only had it like every 6 months until she turned like 11 or something, and then it became regular. But yeah. And everyone says that the girls are pregnant because we are a bunch of small town hicks, and that we are all probably gonna marry cousins and stuff. But the thing about our town is that growing up everyone says "I hate it here!! I'm NEVER coming back!!" and then they go out to college, get married (to some one from here that they are in some way related [VERY VERY distant cousins not 1st or 2nd or 3rd generation cousins just so you know, we're rednecks, not gross!!]) to and then they move back here and their kids do the exact same thing. It's insane!! An awful terrible never ending cycle!!!!!! But that was really off topic but yeah...

[candycat51]

ya we just had a sex scandal at our school yesterday...

[dancer101]

candycat what kind of sex scandal
we had family life for the last two weeks and lets just say it was weird

[ballababy]

sixth grader thing was shocking but ladies dont have sex im a virgin and lovin it (what should be running through your mind)what if i dont get a date?etc. you cant have all that crud on your mind and think about am i gonna afford diapers today times 10!

[candycat51]

dancer101
while we were at church, two of the students were under the gym bleachers doing it. When they were caught, the boy rips off his shirt and says "F*** you!" to the teacher and runs off campus. We had to call the police to find him..... so ya. (that is just the short version of the story)

[Lilli]

wow...........at our school, two kids were caught in the Band Hall....... it happened last year, i think.......yeah.......... i don't get it, when people do that. it's like, you know you are gonna get caught, so WHY ARE YA DOING IT?? and i completely agree with candycat. worry about the fact of what happens if you get pregnant. would you be able to afford it? what would your family think? your friends? your church? your friends parents probably won't let your friends hang out with you anymore(i personally think that's stupid. pregnancy isn't contagious. and it's not like the kid is gonna go get pregnant after seeing that.). but, there are a lot more consequenses, than, just having to take care of a baby at 2 a.m. and that's what you should be thinking about.

[srocks97]

In my town at the public school we have the same problem. Except my town has a bad reputaion in a way. But not for that reason. I am so glad that I go to a catholic school were no offense to anyone that goes to a public school!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! there is a little bit more diciplene. Again I can not stress this enough I DO NOT mean to offend people. In my school we were always taught that we were "better than other schools because we got a catholic education." But we still have most of the same issues as public schools except the are not the extent of 6th graders getting pregnant. We have mabye 1 to 2 girls every like mabye 5 years or something along thoose lines. Don't think we don't have sex problems because we do but we don't have it as bad as others