This article left me amazed and amused by how far people will go to keep up the appearance that everything is okay. This girl nursed a child inside of herself for nine months only to give birth at her senior prom and dump the baby into a trash bag. Didn't she feel any type of maternal connection with the child after enduring the hardships of pregnancy for nine months? Or perhaps she was indirectly angry with the child due to the misfortunes that her pregnancy has brought upon her.
I find it very difficult to believe that this story is completely true. I just can't imagine the parents that watch their daughter go from zero to nine months of pregnancy without noticing anything. And if not them, at least her friends or teachers would have noticed something. And how about when she walks into the bathroom and walks out completely different? There are just too many variables to even consider this...
Next is the fact that she risked her own life and gave up the life of her child just to keep anybody from finding out that she was pregnant. If she had just told her parents, yes it would have been uncomfortable for a while, but at least she would not have had to kill her own child. I can't think of much worse than that...
The article also explained how the "teenage brain" and the "adult brain" do not exist, but rather, the brain is constantly developing and changing. There are just many common variables, mental and physical, that generally occur around certain time periods for people. I thought that this was common sense and needed no explanation. The body and mind have no idea how many calender years they are. They develop at their own, hormonally and environmentally-dictated pace. But laws are formed around ages because it would be practically impossible to measure maturity for every single individual.
I think that it's important to do what you feel comfortable doing at your age, because only you truly know what you're ready for. But be careful not to try and act "all grown up" when you're not. The consequences of failure could be permanent.
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I agree, it makes no sense that the parents wouldn't know. If someone gains that much weight just in their stomach it's rediculous they wouldn't know.
ReplyDeleteI Agree, the story sounds fake but then again I've seen the show "I was Pergnant and didn't Know It" and there are many times where even the mother doesn't know she's pregnant until she has the baby. Plus, I agree with the specialists who say the human mind developes at different rates. People fall behind in school or easily master material without a problem. there are kids who act like adults and adults who still act like they're kids. It sucks that we are all put into one category based off our age and are expected to deal with it.
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