Pregnant junkie teaches her haters a lesson by proving that she's a pregnant junkie.

Just an anecdote, not looking for acknowledgment, but I had comprehensive sex education from both the school district and my family, knew all about the reproductive process from a tender age, was on birth control the entire time I was sexually active... And still had a baby at 17. I was on depo provera, which interferes with or completely ceases the menstrual cycle. No one told me much of what to look for in terms of pregnancy symptoms, except no period and vomiting and food cravings and sore boobs. The no period was supposed to be a normal side effect of the birth control, and didn't experience anything that would qualify as a red flag until I started to show at 25 weeks, when a termination was not really a possibility.

In my situation there was certainly some pressure from my family to not give it up for adoption (my mother, in fact, basically told me I would never stop regretting it as long as I lived) but in the end the decision was mine to keep him. Give a teenage girl 14 weeks to make a life-altering decision and you get a lot of mixed results. Either way, while I feel often enough that I'm 'trashy' as a result of having a kid so young, being poor, blah blah blah, I do enjoy coming here to see how fucked up it really could be. There's always food on the table and there's some hope too. I come here to feel good about the fact that I don't smoke meth.

Also, via the sex talk; it needn't be too awkward if you start them off young, and always answer questions with bluntness. Anatomy and consent and appropriate behaviour are good starters, usually questions about conception shortly follow. Puberty and the changing mind/body shortly before or after it starts, and then when they are teens you break out the big guns. Birth control, yes means yes, STD's, and yes, even motivations for sexuality. I found with my parents they were so open that any questions I had (outside of ones that were just strange and learn as you go stuff) I had no problems asking them. The Dutch model for sexual education supports this; very low teen pregnancy, STI, and sexual assault cases per capita compared to the US. YMMV of course, but frank and open conversation rarely hurts matters. It's silly to make sex a taboo topic imo; sure it's private, but so is personal hygiene and we teach our kids about that. We just don't watch them do it.

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