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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So if a teacher finds out that a 14 yr old is pregnant by another 14 yr old, should they not tell the parents because they fear that the parent might be abusive to the teen?

Teachers should not be put in a position to be hiding information from parents about their child. If they suspect abuse, then call it in. Otherwise, the teacher is deciding what information the parent should/should not know about their own child, and that is outside a teacher's scope, not to mention how wrong that is.

How would a parent who is a teacher like it if another teacher felt they should withhold some info about their own child?[/quote]

Not a teacher, but if I learned that my kid was out at school and not at home, I would

1) Actively seek to improve my relationship with my child so they would trust me enough to share with me first in the future.

[b]2) Be grateful that my child had one or more trusted adults outside the family they knew they could go to for support. [/b][/quote]
and you would be totally fine if the teacher never tells you that your DD is pregnant?[/quote]

I don’t know why we’re equating pregnancy and social transition, but in MD my underage child has the right to seek pregnancy related care without parental permission. If she chose not to come to us first, I would consider that a pretty big parenting failure on our part, not a failure on the part of the adult she does go to. (Unless that adult is the father.  But that’s not what we’re really talking about.)[/quote]

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