Anonymous
Post 01/21/2026 11:24     Subject: If Your Kid Got Pregnant Early
Anonymous wrote:If your kid ended up pregnant or getting someone else pregnant at a young age and gave up on ever getting a college education, how did you handle it?


Well, humans are fertile after puberty so it can happen to anyone. You should teach them common sense and sex education on top of getting them condoms and prescription for birth control. However, them becoming or get pregnant remains a possibility unless you get them temporarily or permanently neutered.

If this happens to yours before 21, therapy and abortion make more sense. However, after that, try to help them rise to the occasion unless circumstances are truly dire. In the end, its a decision for the couple, not the parents. You can only decide whether you are able or willing to provide any support or not.
Anonymous
Post 01/21/2026 05:29     Subject: If Your Kid Got Pregnant Early
Anonymous wrote:A girl from my high school got pregnant in 10th grade. Or 11th don’t remember. Her and the boy are both attorneys now. She was in a gifted program in high school. She was always smart. She had a supportive and involved mother.

That baby is probably an attorney too now


Not that gifted if she accidentally got pregnant.
Anonymous
Post 01/21/2026 04:31     Subject: If Your Kid Got Pregnant Early
A girl from my high school got pregnant in 10th grade. Or 11th don’t remember. Her and the boy are both attorneys now. She was in a gifted program in high school. She was always smart. She had a supportive and involved mother.

That baby is probably an attorney too now
Anonymous
Post 01/21/2026 03:38     Subject: If Your Kid Got Pregnant Early
Anonymous wrote:My kids aren't at that stage yet, but I married at 23 and was pregnant in grad school at 25. It was difficult because my baby was a micropreemie and needed a lot of care. I gave up on a career, despite having a graduate degree, to do all the therapies and care that he needed. Thanks to attentive parenting and lots of services and accommodations, he is now in college, but it was a long and arduous road. I do not regret sacrificing my professional development to raise my first born! But it certainly changed the course of my life.

Despite my own situation as a stay-at-home mother, in general it's not ideal for future earning potential to skip earning a college degree. I would advise that the baby be raised by the grandparents so the parent can still attend college. Is that a possibility in the situation you're describing? I would be happy to do that for my children, if they had a child early in life.


You can attend a local college and still be home with your child.
Anonymous
Post 01/21/2026 00:16     Subject: If Your Kid Got Pregnant Early
If I was able I’d take the kid.
Anonymous
Post 01/21/2026 00:04     Subject: If Your Kid Got Pregnant Early
Why would they give up on college? Most colleges and universities have child care and family housing. My mother was just barely 21 when she had me and she continued straight through to her PhD

Anonymous
Post 01/20/2026 22:04     Subject: If Your Kid Got Pregnant Early
My kids aren't at that stage yet, but I married at 23 and was pregnant in grad school at 25. It was difficult because my baby was a micropreemie and needed a lot of care. I gave up on a career, despite having a graduate degree, to do all the therapies and care that he needed. Thanks to attentive parenting and lots of services and accommodations, he is now in college, but it was a long and arduous road. I do not regret sacrificing my professional development to raise my first born! But it certainly changed the course of my life.

Despite my own situation as a stay-at-home mother, in general it's not ideal for future earning potential to skip earning a college degree. I would advise that the baby be raised by the grandparents so the parent can still attend college. Is that a possibility in the situation you're describing? I would be happy to do that for my children, if they had a child early in life.


Anonymous
Post 01/20/2026 22:01     Subject: If Your Kid Got Pregnant Early
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:People who have kids early can go to college.

When I was a sophomore, there was a girl in my dorm who had a toddler. Her parents were raising the baby while she was at college and they drove down to visit her and brought the kid on the weekend. I am not sure what class year she was. She had transferred from a branch campus to main campus. So likely was living at home for her first year of college. Possibly two.


Nope not taking care of a child.

You bring it into this shit hole without an education you are responsible.


Who are you talking to? Are you OP?
Anonymous
Post 01/20/2026 21:58     Subject: If Your Kid Got Pregnant Early
Anonymous wrote:People who have kids early can go to college.

When I was a sophomore, there was a girl in my dorm who had a toddler. Her parents were raising the baby while she was at college and they drove down to visit her and brought the kid on the weekend. I am not sure what class year she was. She had transferred from a branch campus to main campus. So likely was living at home for her first year of college. Possibly two.


Nope not taking care of a child.

You bring it into this shit hole without an education you are responsible.
Anonymous
Post 01/20/2026 21:56     Subject: If Your Kid Got Pregnant Early
Ruth Bader Ginsberg had a baby, then a year later went to Harvard Law.
It's possible but the young parent needs to want it, be really organized and have family / spousal support.
Anonymous
Post 01/20/2026 21:46     Subject: If Your Kid Got Pregnant Early
People who have kids early can go to college.

When I was a sophomore, there was a girl in my dorm who had a toddler. Her parents were raising the baby while she was at college and they drove down to visit her and brought the kid on the weekend. I am not sure what class year she was. She had transferred from a branch campus to main campus. So likely was living at home for her first year of college. Possibly two.
Anonymous
Post 01/20/2026 19:48     Subject: If Your Kid Got Pregnant Early
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Are you the mom from last week whose son said his girlfriend is pregnant? Keep it all in one thread.

If you're not, this looks like you're hunting for drama since you aren't talking about anything related to you specifically.


Who the hell are you? OF COURSE I'm not talking about anything related to my specifically. JFC are you new here? If so, please out yourself before we go any further.

No, I am not the mom of the other thread. Link?


It's called what would you say
Anonymous
Post 01/20/2026 19:42     Subject: If Your Kid Got Pregnant Early
Anonymous wrote:Are you the mom from last week whose son said his girlfriend is pregnant? Keep it all in one thread.

If you're not, this looks like you're hunting for drama since you aren't talking about anything related to you specifically.


Who the hell are you? OF COURSE I'm not talking about anything related to my specifically. JFC are you new here? If so, please out yourself before we go any further.

No, I am not the mom of the other thread. Link?
Anonymous
Post 01/20/2026 19:41     Subject: If Your Kid Got Pregnant Early
Are you the mom from last week whose son said his girlfriend is pregnant? Keep it all in one thread.

If you're not, this looks like you're hunting for drama since you aren't talking about anything related to you specifically.
Anonymous
Post 01/20/2026 19:37     Subject: If Your Kid Got Pregnant Early
If your kid ended up pregnant or getting someone else pregnant at a young age and gave up on ever getting a college education, how did you handle it?