My biological mother had me at 16, and it was just too young.
A woman who is not ready to have a baby making it work is not a happy ending to me. It's a personal nightmare.
I wasn't ecstatic about being pregnant - I wasn't somebody who actively wanted kids. Certainly there were no fantasies about nappy-changing.
...to bring a child into existence without a fair prospect of being able, not only to provide food for its body, but instruction and training for its mind is a moral crime, both against the unfortunate offspring and against society
By no means do we think, 'Oh, it's cool to be a teen mom.' I definitely don't think that it's cool.
In my case, I was born to parents who were very young, and I don't think they were entirely ready to have a child. My dad was going to college and working two or three jobs at the same time, and my mum was working and going to school.
I married two weeks after my 18th birthday, far too young, and by the time I was 23 I was a single mother of three small children, Sean, Daniel and Victoria, living in a prefab house.
When I hear a girl has had two babies by the age of 16, I think two things: Is she called Chardonnay, and what is she doing with her life?
When I found out I was pregnant, I was over the moon about it, but I was upset I wasn't married!
We've got too many young girls, who don't know how to parent, turning themselves into parents.
There are young people having babies every day that cannot possibly take care of them, and, as people who believe that every life is beautiful, we need to make them aware of another choice - to give that beautiful life up for adoption.
I was an accident - my mum was only 16 when she had me.
I'd heard about people having miscarriages when they were trying for babies, but my situation was very different. What happens if you weren't trying for a baby?
