why do people get pregnant early.?

Answer 1

Often girls and women are looking for purpose in their lives, or even an escape (from school, jobs, other expectations/responsibilities). They think that a child will bring them purpose. This can be true, certainly, but sometimes it brings more grief, stress, heartache, etc., as you mentioned.

A poll by Ann Landers (a deceased advice columnist) revealed that over 80% of parents later regretted having children.

That’s pretty strong testimony that in the long run (decades), parenting often is not as fulfilling as people had hoped it would be.

Children do not “belong” to parents, and often the disappointments they cause when they don’t think/act/turn out exactly like parents hope are heartbreaking to parents.

It takes incredibly strong, confident, open-minded people to be wonderful parents and truly, honestly love and respect children just the way they are.

Parenting is not for everyone. Too many people do it just because they’re a certain age, or their friends or siblings are doing it, or because they have trouble finding other purpose (volunteering/community service/worthwhile vocations, etc.), or because they’re lacking love, or they want to manipulate a boyfriend/spouse/parents, etc.

Answer 2

okay, there are two answers on here that i really don't agree with from kesha and kvuo... they don't have to be immature, and they don't have to be stupid. If you believe in God... then you wouldn't think either one. I'm 18, and I'm currently 8½ months pregnant, i was pregnant at age 17. If a female gets pregnant, its because she's supposed to be pregnant. Not out of stupidity. And if they give their children up for adoption, then they were supposed to get pregnant to give someone else a chance at having a child.
You really have no right to judge ANYONE about ANYTHING.

And sometimes it's an accident. I got pregnant while I was on birthcontrol, AND was using a condom! If its meant to happen, it's going to happen no matter what you do to try and stop it.

Answer 3

Many reasons:
*They were raped
*They didn't use protection
*Protection was used, but failed
*They had sex

I got pregnant at 17 and then again at 18 while being on birth control. With my first child, I was on the patch. With my second, I was on the Nuva Ring. I don't regret it at all. It does get hard sometimes making ends meet but we do it. I'm still with my daughter's father and we're planning on getting married sometime next year. Our daughters are 1 1/2 and 2 1/2 now and they are the light of our lives. Our kids are very well taken care of and they are also very happy and loved. I graduated from high school and I'm going to college next year to be a registered nurse. My dream is to work in a birth center. You shouldn't worry too much. None of your tax dollars are paying for my family and I.

Answer 4

Early in age? Or early in their cycle?

I have no idea why people in their teens get pregnant. It seems very young to me when you should be thinking about school and having fun and your future.

As for early on in the cycle, that depends how early you ovulate. You only get pregnant at the time you ovulate.

Answer 5

Women get pregnant early, because it is a natural/"God-given" instinct to want to get pregnant at an early age, however the society that one lives in might strongly discourage to get pregnant at an early age. In my opinion, if all young women are encouraged to get married and then pregnant at an early age, there would be much less cases of rape and child molestation, and there would be much less divorces, meaning much less children growing up without a parent and much less cases of single mothers raising children on their own in dire poverty, leading many of them to have mental problems, engage in prostituation, and/or resort to drug use to cope with the intense stress/poverty.

There would be much less cases of divorce, because the societies in the world that encourage teenagers to get pregnant have the least divorce rates, among other things.

Answer 6

in whose minds' is it early? whose to say what is early and what is not? I know pleanty of people in their 30s that should have never had children and plenty of people who had kids around 18/19/20 that are the best, most caring and loving parents I have ever seen. So, I don't know how to answer this question

Answer 7

Early how? Do you mean young? I guess some want to be young parents and others have booboos with birth control, others may not have birth control options due to religious beliefs. Some may want to trap another in a relationship, some may just feel that it's the right thing to do for them.

Answer 8

Maybe because they are in a loving relationship and can provide for a child. They are financially and emotionally stable. They know it can happen to them, the didnt have any booboos, they are not immature and they dont care what a bunch of no hopers on yahoo who clearly know nothing about having children have to say on the matter!

the only ignorance I can see is in most of these answers!

Answer 9

I think that is a very dumb question i got pregnant at 15 and a healthy happy boy at 16... I think it is very naive to ask a question like that.. thats like asking why does it rain or why do people ask stupid questions on yahoo!

Answer 10

cause they pull chance stupidly in a moment of lust thinking they cant get pregnant cuz they never got pregnant before and then lot of girl would wanna keep and thats pretty much it