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[quote=Anonymous]God no. If could do things over again, I'm not sure I'd have a child at all.

I came from a highly religious family -- no sex ed ever; my mother told me a ton of lies about sex & babies that I didn't even realize were untrue until I went to college and heard stories from my friends. I "did it" for the first time at 21 and literally got pregnant five weeks later. To be honest, it really screwed up my life for the next decade. I had no family support and no money for childcare. My husband was also a student at the time, so no money from him either.

The good thing is that I finally graduated (very, very late) and have a decent middle-class job now. The bad thing is that I am married to someone I so would not have married if he hadn't gotten me pregnant, and I simply can't leave until DS is 18. We're doing ok financially now, but the situation is still precarious enough that if we were to NOT share our income/rental costs, everyone would suffer.

I don't know how all these young moms are doing well; maybe they have a lot of family support or really love their spouses or something. For me, it wasn't so easy, and I definitely would NOT recommend getting knocked up before you're financially & emotionally ready :-/[/quote]

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