Submitted by: Trish, Texas
“Me now means to me that do what you want to do in life have fun and not having to worry about finding a baby sitter an not having to buy stuff for a baby.”
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Submitted by: Christine, Texas
When I was 18 I got pregnant by a guy I thought would be with me forever. Boy!!! How wrong I turned out to be. It turns out he ended up leaving to another state because he wanted to work on himself I was only 2 months pregnant. I hadn’t even finished high school yet. I had to go to all my doctors appointments by myself and get back into school because I had dropped out because I wanted to be with him all the time. It turns out while I was trying to figure out how I was going to take care of my daughter he was planning on getting married with a new girl he only knew for a few months he had never contacted me or asked to be apart of the birth of my daughter. He has seen by daughter atleast 3 or 4 times in the last five yrs. he has 2 other kids of his own now with his wife and takes care of them and has nothing to do with my daughter. This is a constant story with girls now a days. My advice to girls is keep your head up even though it really never gets any easier. I have to go to court over and over for child support and realistically while he is always going to be able to just get up and go, you will always be the one stuck missing out on what kids/teens should be doing. I never really saw my daughter the first year because I was to busy trying to work to support her. I missed her first step, her first word and alot of memories I can never get back. No mother should have to go through that. Although I do not regret having my daughter I wish I would have waited to have her because maybe i could have gone to prom or gone off to college to join that soroity I always wanted too.Maybe I wouldn’t be struggling to find a babysitter to finish college or to just get away for a little while to hang with my friends. I have a great boyfreind who loves my daughter as his own but if only I had waited maybe he would be her biological father and we could have done it right. You know finish college get married have a great career then have a baby. It may sound korny but it’s better than being a 18yr. high school student/single broke mom. I will definitely tell my daughter to wait. After all, what’s the rush…? You just a kid in reality! Do you want to be a kid raising a kid. My mother helped me alot but she also told me “she’s your responsibilty you had her you take care her.”
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