There's alot of discussion of teen parenting, and I think that we should clarify. Being an eighteen year old parent is not the same as being a sixteen year old parent. Perhaps mentally, but you are an adult legally at eighteen and have rights and responsibilities like any other adult.
When I think teen parent, I think legal minor, high school age. I know that "eight" is followed by the word "teen", but you're not a teen parent - you're a grown up. in reference to another person't post, I do think it is misleading to younger girls when mothers eighteen and older identify themselves as teen parents. These women have options younger girls don't, such as working full time, signing a lease, voting, having legal guardianship of thier children, not needing parental consent for certain medical care, GETTING MARRIED, etc...
Does this strike a chord with anyone else?
2006-09-26
11:21:58
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Emily O
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