“”It’s only logical that if teens are mature enough to become parents, they are mature enough to decide whether or not they want to give birth.””
Is she insane? Just because a teenager gets pregnant doesn’t mean she’s mature enough to become a parent. Does she really think that’s on the mind of teenage girls who choose to have sex?
I wonder what she would say to the 11 or 12 year-old who agreed to have sex and then wound up pregnant. Physically mature and emotionally mature are not the same. In fact, the Human brain continues developing into a person’s twenties.
I was friends with a girl in middle school who came from a less than ideal family life. Two older siblings, a brother (19), a sister (16) and a drunk father, no mother. She and I were 12. Both she and her sister both lost their v-cards by ten, with brother’s and father’s friends, respectively. The girls were sleazy and sexually active, and the brother was a drug dealer. I wasn’t having it, so we drifted apart with ease.
I had another friend move to the inner-city, and wind up pregnant by 14. Again by 16, with different guys. She came for a visit when I was thirteen, she was 14, and she asked if I was still a virgin. I told her I wasn’t a dumbass, so yes. She went on and on about it, and I just went home. That was the last time we spoke, which is just fine. Another messed up family.