I became a wife at 15 and was a mother of two at 18.
While not impossible, it is especially challenging for teenage parents to develop bonds with their children. A high percent of them were themselves children of teenage parents and have never experienced appropriate parenting.
When a 12-year-old, a 13-year-old, so desperately wants a baby what she's looking for is the kind of unconditional love a child gives a mother and a mother gives a child.
The crisis of children having children has been eclipsed by the greater crisis of children killing children.
I was born to teenage parents who got married young and divorced early.
By no means do we think, 'Oh, it's cool to be a teen mom.' I definitely don't think that it's cool.
I didn't expect this - to be 19, be a rookie, playing this much and having a kid. It's a lot, but, I mean, I'm enjoying it.
My wife and I had children when we were children ourselves.
I was married by 18 and I had a beautiful little girl.
I was an accident - my mum was only 16 when she had me.
Fifteen-year-old girls produce children with sixteen-year-old boys in the backseat of cars and in the stairwells of apartment buildings. Why can't two loving adults who have contemplated parenthood and are prepared to offer love, patience, and devotion come up with enough chromosomal matter to stick together and create a child?
Society, they look down on teenage moms and dads, but I think those people are just jealous because they'll never know what it's like to be raised by someone who's still being raised.
