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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]how common is pregnancy doing Freshman year of college?
2 of my DD friends that went to a 4 year school will be having a baby by the end of the year...   How common is it?  [/quote]

Uncommon and rare in my DD's group of friends. I have not even heard of one case. Come to think of it, I have not even heard of one person in their HS or college having a baby or being pregnant!  Who is your DD hanging out with?  What SES, what race, what religion, what state?  [/quote]

You likely only know a small sliver about what happens in your daughter’s school community and friend circle. [/quote]

I don't think so. I would know a lot about my kids school community and friends circle. 
 My kids were in  STEM magnet program tracks in ES, MS and HS. The academics was quite rigorous and kids were also focused on academics and ECs.  Parents provided quite a bit of support to the kids and so there was a lot of supervision of the kids anyways. I am sure there were other problems that these kids faced, but pregnancy or STD were off the table.

In college, these kids were going to Honors college in STEM majors that required a significant amount of studying. Then with internships and research, there was not too much time to scuttle career prospects with  getting pregnant.  Most of these kids are able to make good decisions and if they had the time to sleep with someone, you can rest assured that they were  too precocious to do something as stupid as  get pregnant or make someone pregnant. Most would also take care to prevent STDs and not do anything that would impact their lives negatively. [/quote]

It’s funny how you think that being smart and academically focused keeps kids from getting pregnant. My child went to TJ and a top STEM college and he knew of peers with the same background who faced pregnancies and had to make decisions. Sometimes the young people who are most academically focused are a bit naive when it comes to romantic entanglements. 
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