by Linda Shrigley

Created on: July 26, 2008   Last Updated: September 23, 2010

The best way to tell your parents you are pregnant

There are some circumstances in which telling your parents that you are pregnant, may be difficult. For a married couple, it is as simple as telling your eager parents that they are going to become the grandparents they were waiting patiently to become. In this case, it is a very joyous occasion. I have never known anyone that has not wanted to become grandparents, when their child gets married. It seems like that is the next step, after the wedding.

Talking to your parents about your upcoming child is not easy in some cases, especially if the child is unwanted. What can you tell your parents that will make it easier on them? There is no way to make this type of news any better or less traumatizing on anyone. It has to be said, and the outcome may not be what we hope it to be.

There are also many circumstances that will affect your parents when they are told that their child is pregnant. If you have a very young teenager, ages 12 to 15 years of age, it may be devastating to tell your parents that you are going to have a baby. These children are only babies themselves, and they are pregnant, so how do they tell their parents the news of their pregnancy. This type of news devastates parents, especially if the child is on the younger side of the age group. How does a 12 or 13 year old tell their Mother and Father, that they are having a child of their own, when they are only babies themselves?

Another circumstance that will really devastate parents is if their severely handicapped child finds themselves pregnant, at any age. They know the child must have been raped by someone. Its a sad thing for me to say, but severely handicapped children may not be capable of have a child. (If I am wrong in that statement, then I truly am sorry if I have caused anyone undo pain, which it is not my intention to cause anyone any more pain than they should have to suffer.)

For couples, married or unmarried, that purposely gets pregnant while their financial status does not even allow them to survive on the wages being brought into the home, seems like it is a very selfish undertaking. Some people can't afford to live on what they are making, and they bring a new born child into the situation, knowing that they can't afford to raise that child, and is never going to be in a position to care for the child properly, and in my opinion, it is totally irresponsible of them.

When I had my first child, I was eighteen, and unmarried. I

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