Teen Pregnancy

[bre_zack]

i just turned 16 last month. and found out i was pregnant today. my boyfriend is always there about anything. and religiously we are together for life. we are thinking about just telling our parents that god told us to do it because thats how we feel. we feel if he didn't wan us to have a baby he wouldn't have given us one. so how could we tell our mothers about this? im only in the 10th grade and my boy is in the 9th grade. we are the same age and are very much in love.have been together for a long while and i knew before we dated.
please help
bre & zack

[BGSU_Mom]

I was a teenage mother and I will give you some hard advice. Yeah he's great and ready to go along now. The truth is you are way too young to say that you are fully devoted to someone and going to be with them for the rest of your life. Everyone says that at 16 but in a few years you won't be able to figure out what it is you liked about him in the first place. Most likely you will not be together forever. Yeah I know a lot of people have probably told you this and your 16 so you know everything but that is whats gonna happen. Secondly, don't tell her God did it because God isn't the one that forgot the condoms and that is just gonna make her more angry. Its a great way of putting the blame for this on someone else and not accepting it for yourself. YOU did this and you need to accept that. Third, you should explore your options, I am not telling you whether or not you should keep it because that is your choice and your choice alone, no one else has the right to make that up for you. If someone pressures you into a decision and you take it despite what you want to do you will hate them for the rest of your life. How to tell her? Wait till she is in a good mood and then just tell her up front. She's gonna be mad and you need to give her time to cool off about it. Last, stay in school or if your not already in school then GET your butt into school now! Without some kind of education you will live a life of complete and total poverty and the magical money fairy or the tree that grows dollar bills... well it's not coming. Most likely in the future you will be a single parent, that is the cold hard truth and you need to face it. So you will need to stay in school so that you can be financially independent, and only you can do that.

[spurdy09]

you need to tell you parents. i told my mom, and it did not go over well. at least you have the support of your boyfriend with you. i told my mom before i told anyone else. it was really hard to do. i remember she was watching TV in her bedroom. i walked in crying my eyes out and told her that we have to talk. before i said anything else i made her promise not to kick my out (that was my biggest fear). she agreed. i told her that i was pregnant, threw my home pregnancy test at her, and ran out of the room crying. it was a horrible experience. but without her by my side, i could have never done it.