Teenage motherhood

I was just reading an article about these girls in Gloucester Massachusetts that made a pact to get pregnant and raise their children together.

It is incredible, that 17 of these girls actually went trough with it. Imagine seventeen girls walking through the halls of their high school big and pregnant.

In truth I have always been fascinated with teen pregnancy. Not the normal unwanted teen pregnancy, but the kind that is planned… There are so many girls that plan and seek out a pregnancy. They seek an unconditional love of a baby. Here I am thirty years old and I still was in denial three months later about my last pregnancy.

It is a natural thing for a woman to want children. And it is at these formative years that we first get these urges. We were built this way. Hell I remember wanting a child so badly when I was a teen. I do see that the older we get, if we are still able to have children, we either get more and more desperate or more and more disinterested.

Let’s look at it this way, we become able to have children this young so that we have the energy to care for them. We have these urges when we have the most energy for the process. These young mothers are for the most part really good mothers, because they put all of their strength into being a good mother; where as if we become involved in our lives before having these children, we don’t focus so much of our energy on motherhood.

These young girls identify themselves as a mother, where as if we are older we don’t identify ourselves solely as mothers. We don’t draw our strength from being a mother and enduring those dirty looks from people for having had sex at such a young age. We draw it from our achievements and careers.

So these seventeen girls in Gloucester, are looking for their strength, and unconditional love of a child. Does this mean we should look at them as some lower form of mother. No… because in reality an older mom can be a bad mother, and a younger mom can be a good one. She is capable of being a present and loving parent that will care for her child well, and ensure that they succeed.