Though sometimes it's the person who puts the pressure on themselves. A friend/former roommate is having her kid sometime in march of 2010. Her main reason above all others for wanting this kid is a lash out towards her ex. They were dating for roughly 7 years and he was hell bent about never wanting kids. Three years, I think, after they broke up, he starts dating this girl and after a year of dating gets her pregnant by what he calls 'one hell of mystery'. 'WHAT? SEX MAKES BABIES?'.
With mounting debts from college, her current boyfriend paying off her credit cards, government funding, paying for food, rent, everything in general, she somehow concludes that having a child would be a great investment. Messes with the birth control to make it happen. You know, to show how great of a mother she is, a lame attempt at trying to one up her ex. What it ended up boiling down to was who was the most successful after their relationship ended.
For years I said I didn't want kids and I am so grateful that no one ever told me 'Oh, you'll change your mind.'
Had someone tell me that in high school, think I was 17 at the time. The girl was 16, on her second child.
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Though sometimes it's the person who puts the pressure on themselves. A friend/former roommate is having her kid sometime in march of 2010. Her main reason above all others for wanting this kid is a lash out towards her ex. They were dating for roughly 7 years and he was hell bent about never wanting kids. Three years, I think, after they broke up, he starts dating this girl and after a year of dating gets her pregnant by what he calls 'one hell of mystery'. 'WHAT? SEX MAKES BABIES?'.
With mounting debts from college, her current boyfriend paying off her credit cards, government funding, paying for food, rent, everything in general, she somehow concludes that having a child would be a great investment. Messes with the birth control to make it happen. You know, to show how great of a mother she is, a lame attempt at trying to one up her ex. What it ended up boiling down to was who was the most successful after their relationship ended.
For years I said I didn't want kids and I am so grateful that no one ever told me 'Oh, you'll change your mind.'
Had someone tell me that in high school, think I was 17 at the time. The girl was 16, on her second child.