Testimonies: Life after teen pregnancy

by Anna Jane

What everyone who's done it says is true: you just don't think it could happen to you. And of course, I was no different. I was nineteen and in the midst of a fabulous road trip with my best friend from coast to coast when...read more

by msjp

The article that I will write is more of a personal story. My experience when I was still in my teenage years. I was in my first year of college when I met this guy. For me he was perfect in everything. We became lovers ...read more

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by Ben Sissom

A pregnancy should be a time of joy, excitement and anticipation but when it happens to a teenager who is not ready it has very little if any of these emotions. Teen pregnancy is like a disease for the nine months you have...read more

by Jessica Page

It happens, more often than not; typically at a job interview or some other questioning higher authority: More than likely filling out some application and the questions come "Your age?" (19) "I'm assuming you have no depe...read more

by Jennifer Sanchez

I was a very young teenage mother. I became pregnant at the age of 14 and gave birth at the age of 15. I proceeded to have two other children by the time I was 19. I came from a catholic family background where birth contr...read more

by Shelly Townsend

I was a teen when I first had my first child, it was hard on me and my boyfriend, because we both wasn't ready for a baby. He was playing football and basketball and I was running track at the time. We haven't finish schoo...read more

by Freya Halverson

This is not such a bad life tale, but it does start out as a no good beginning. I grew up way to fast. I was taking care of four children when I was 10 years old. By the time I was 13 I was on alot of drugs I was having un...read more

by Justice Liberty

At the age of 12, my parents finally divorced after years of separating and getting back together. My world was torn apart. A year or so after the split of my parents, my father and my sister moved about 1000 miles away,...read more

by Ericka Davis

My life changed when I was 14 years old. I have to admit, I thought I was invisible. You see I was having problems at home. A few years earlier really started my experience. I was raped on my 11th birthday. When I finally ...read more

by Comtess De lo cree

I am also a statistic here I was only 18 when I became pregnant with my oldest daughter. I didn't finish school however, and haven't been able to get my GED. I made a lot of mistakes in my youth, but my daughter was not on...read more

by HeatherB

I was a Teen Mother - Abandoning Stereotypes About Young Parents That phrase usually conjures up the image of a pretty sixteen year-old girl and her jock boyfriend getting jiggy in the backseat of the car. "Oh, no," he...read more

by Sharon Freeman

Although it may not be the best option in the world to become a parent as a teenager, but some of us who did it turned out to be better adults because of it. I was 17 years old when I found out that I was pregnant. Barely ...read more

by Jennifer Labier

i got pregnant with my first child at 18 yrs old. i was scared and nervous about being a mom. luckily i had my baby's father with me the whole way! our parents were definitely not impressed though, they were very disappoin...read more

by Andrew Powell

"Mom, Dad I'm pregnant." "Wonderful sweetie! When did you find out?" Honestly, when you read that first line, and not having read the second line, what did you expect coming? A not so happy response? Why is that? Whe...read more

by Danielle Stead

I had always told myself that if ever fell pregnant, i would get an abortion. No doubt about it. However when it did actually happen i felt like the lonliest person in the world. I put my hands up, it was a silly mistake a...read more

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by Raigne

Fifteen and pregnant with my first child! What next? The year I turned Fifteen I moved in with my real mother. She had given guardianship to my grandmother when I was Fourteen months old. This was new for me. I was lov...read more

by Jennifer Labier

i got pregnant with my first child at 18 yrs old. i was scared and nervous about being a mom. luckily i had my baby's father with me the whole way! our parents were definitely not impressed though, they were very disappoin...read more

by Dana Taylor

I was 17 when I first got pregnant, I knew I was pregnant right away. I was in the 10th grade and thought I knew everything. What teenage girl doesn't think that? I lived with my sister and my Mom, that was very ill w...read more

by Lisa Laforest

My story is a lot like the other articles I've read in this category. I was also a troubled teen, rebelling against the rules, school and mostly my father. I always felt a gap in my heart where I would've had his love. I n...read more

by Sherry Salo

i grew up in the south were there wasn't a lot of money and living in a house was like first class!teen pregnancy was every where!i didn't really understand why or how this was happening because i was so young!my father wo...read more