I mean, seriously. Are there that many people having unprotected sex that can't go to their doctor or buy an OTC pregnancy test or talk to someone? Like, maybe their mom??
It is just so weird to me. I can't remember the last time a friend of mine came to me worried she was pregnant. How many of the preggie questions do you think are legit?
2006-09-23 18:19:26 · 21 answers · asked by missd1975 3 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Pregnancy
I don't really understand what my question has to do with taking my own life for granted...???
I realize not everyone has what I have, but if you have access to the internet I'm assuming you could just as easily look up the symptoms online.
What concerns me more is people who say they can't afford a test or can't afford a doctor bringing some poor child into this world at such a disadvantage.
I guess the real concern--if all these questions are legit, how the heck are we faling to educate young men and women about sex and the consequences?!
Also, I don't usually answer the pregnancy questions, having never been pregnant. But it annoys me when I open Answers and like half of the day's latest questions are "am I pregnant? could I be pregnant?" There IS a search function on Yahoo as well. Perhaps instead of a q/a forum Yahoo should build a buddy network for young women who think they might be pregnant. I'm totally not being sarcastic--apparently there's a big enough need.
2006-09-23 18:42:58 · update #1
Hmmmm... let me see here, if I thought I were pregnant? Well, it would be pretty unlikely since I am on birth control and always use a condom. But it could still happen, I know that. I would take a test, call my best friend, go to my doctor. Once I went in for kidney stones and my doctor thought it could be an ectopic pregnancy. So... I took the test, waited for the results. And that was that. No need to go to an online website to ask "could I have an ectopic pregnancy??"
2006-09-23 19:32:23 · update #2
I think you are right and it is about time someone noticed this as well.
This question has nothing to do with "taking your own life for granted". I have no clue why someone went in that direction. Unless they are meaning you have the better resources and not to think everyone else has. In that case, it still doesn't permit "am I pregnant" on the internet.
Come on people. Not like we can look at you and say "yes you are!". Symptoms, oh well. Not everyone will have symptoms and not everyone will understand the symptoms. I had a friend always wonder if she was pregnant when she had a cold, but confused it as pregnancy symptoms. Over all, it was just paranoia. When the time came she felt she wasn't...she was after getting her a test 4 months later!
No one can argue with the valid points you made. If someone has access to a computer, they have access to look up the symptoms. None of this "What are the symptoms". It is out there. One must do their homework and not be lazy about it.
If a person can't afford a test nor visit the doctor, then they need to think twice of what sex can bring. Ie: pregnancy and std's. If can't afford the protection and can't afford to be examined, then obviously they need to find the resources or hold off on sex until they can.
School systems are failing to educate due to the restrictions on the schools by our government. Our president Bush is pro-abstained. Meaning, he is installing pro-abstain teaching in school systems, limiting teachers to obstruct sexual information.
Parents are failing to educate due to them either being pro-abstain, religious beliefs or unfortunately feel it is up to their children to learn on their own.
Could I be pregnant answers is going to be answered by me for now on as:
Did you have sex? If sex, of course you could be.
Am I pregnant? If had sex, take a test and see a doctor. We are not the "test" nor a "doctor" no matter who does claim to be. No matter if used protection or not. Nothing is 100%.
Afraid to tell your parents? Then grow up before doing grown up-matured activities.
2006-09-23 19:35:18 · answer #1 · answered by Mutchkin 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Some also wants a womens opinion not everyone has/had the same pregnacy symptoms. Plus not everything on the computer is right. Also another thing is as well as others say it could be more that they dont want people to know their business. I live in a small town I went clear to the next county to buy my ept tests and if they dont have that transpertation then they are screwed of that option. It even puts a feeling of reliefe to get it off your shoulders so to talk about it may help alot. So that 24/7 they aint worried that its the end of the world. Im not dishing on ur point of view I agree but you have to consider other things as well. And some people dont know how to tell their mother or spouse which is usually the case... and that they may need help with approaching.... Some do it all wrong and wait for someone else to tell their parents (me as one lol) I was in the same room just very close to the front door with the screen wide open... And I am 19 soo I can imagine what it is like with someone younger who has never had to deal with this problem. Plus it seems that in schools that they dont teach any more the concept of conterception and how it may prevent pregnacy and the different kinds of birth controls. They over look it and think that its something they should know... But they obviously dont know all if they are asking questions
Crystal
2006-09-24 02:10:44 · answer #2 · answered by Crystal S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with you about asking a forum, but about asking friends, that is a different story. I myself had never been pregnant and by the time that I did become pregnant I was shocked that it even happened. But I asked a few friends at work because there were quite a few there that had just had babies to find out if the symptoms I was having were common. They all agreed that they were so I waited until my period was late. Then I got a pregnancy test and found out I was pregnant. I had already bought TONS of pregnancy test because I had been trying to have a kid for a long time so I didn't want to waste my time in a doctors office or waste more money on pregnancy tests without knowing for sure that I could really be pregnant this time.
Anyway, I do think there are alot of prego questions that are probably from teenage girls that are having fun and not realizing the consequences. I would NEVER have asked one of these forums for opinions on being pregnant!
2006-09-24 01:30:32 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I totally agree with you! Just coming to the parenting question you get to see all the people asking if they are pregnant, before they have taken a test. I agree way to much unsafe sex. Also knowing they can't afford to buy a test, or go to the doctor just goes to show "WHY" our taxes keep getting higher, because it's another victim of welfare to take our hard earned money!
If more people stayed in school, graduated, got jobs, and then started planning families, and babies we would be lots better off. There are just to many parents out there working their arses off to be at home with their young daughters, because everything is so expensive these days that their daughters are running wild having unprotected sex, or trying to get pregnant just for the attention they aren't getting. It's so sad that people can just hop in the sack with who ever, and then wonder until they start if they could be pregnant, knowing brining a baby into the world is just going to cause problems, and the couples are probably young unmarried, and had no intentions of being parents.
Or we'll read about young girls that was afraid to tell their parents so they left a baby in the toilet, or put it in the trash dumpster. Even though bringing a child into this world is a blessing, and lots better than losing your life to AIDS because one time of fun. It would be so much easier to use a condom, and save everyone the heart ache and suffering from all the unwanted pregnancies, abortions, babies being murdered, or the child being passed around like a sack of potatoes from people to people because no one really wants the burden.
I think asking guestions like do you think I could from someone who is really trying is different though. They know that they want a child, and want to care for it, and when they had unprotected sex it was for that reason, and maybe they are having symptoms that they are unsure of. What gets me though is just the question only Do you think I'm pregnant? Or could I be pregnant? Just because they had sex!!! I normally just skip over them questions, because it's always the same questions, and the same answers.
2006-09-24 02:15:03 · answer #4 · answered by nameizmel 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm glad I wasn't the only one thinking that! lol
I think most of the questions are legit. But I do wonder how many questions are from young girls that are no where near ready for such a life altering event in their life. They seem to ask in disbelief.
Yes, unprotected sex can end in pregnancy. (or even worse a STD that will stay with you for life) Don't have sex or protect and get a test!
Agreed
2006-09-24 01:33:23 · answer #5 · answered by Miss C 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am sure they ask these questions because they don't know and they want an opinion of someone who may have been through it before. maybe they are in denial and don't know what to do. hell i am 33 years old with 2 kids and when i thought i was pregnant i told my best friend i may be pregnant before taking the test. i think its the extra support and fear. give them a break, at least they are trying to get answers instead of ignoring the problem. I do however think some of the questions are bogus, and just ignore those and keep moving.
2006-09-24 10:27:44 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
well, Think about what you just asked...there are people on this site from ALL OVER THE WORLD...not just from your town...or county...or even your own country...so yea..there is a lot of sex going on out there...and to answer your other question why waste time buying a pregnancy test..most of the time those dumb things dont work anyways...then think about your other question...just because God blessed you with a mother or someone you can rely on...doesnt mean that he blessed others that way. Plz think before you waste five points on a question. I am glad none of your friends have come to you lately and told you they were worried they were pregnant..really I am. O and also this is YAHOO ANSWERS...meaning you can ask questions and you get answers so...if it really bothers you that much that people want to ask a question about a specific subject that seems to bother you and make you take your own life for granted...then maybe....o I dunno ...you shouldnt answer questions on this site? Just a suggestion.. Have a great day or night...depending on what state or country your in dear.
2006-09-24 01:31:38 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Pregnancy tests cost Thirty friggin dollars! What hoe can affort that three times a week!!
But seriously, they are costly. Thank goodness I've only had to buy one! And the reading WAS accurate!
I guess the doc's office could charge too. I don't know, I'm in Canada.
But I agree with you!!
2006-09-24 01:29:23 · answer #8 · answered by Nikki 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i am SO sick of these uneducated little girls!!!! it is very distressing to think they reallly are this stupid. i mean, what kind of comfort can you get from some internet women saying "sure, it's possible". i know when i was in this situation, i wanted to know for sure as soon as possible-which meant a trip to the drugstore, and then (if it would have been positive) a trip to planned parenthood to confirm. THEN, i might have asked for some advice or comfort over the internet as to what to do next, or how to deal with the news etc....
all i can think is these girls just want to feel grown up. they want to "announce" to the world that they are Women! and feel like they belong to the adult world and share adult problems. so sad.....
2006-09-24 02:21:30 · answer #9 · answered by prettyhate 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I agree. Why would you go to an online forum to ask if you are pregnant, just buy a pregnancy test.
Its probably just nervousness though...they want to talk about it before they buy the test.
2006-09-24 01:22:24 · answer #10 · answered by Rena 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋