I was rather impressed at the amount of negative responses to my post. There was way too much guilt from working parents. I understand that many people think they have to have two incomes to support their families and that is too bad.
I agree that say stay at home parenting will not guarantee sex free teens. But these things start much earlier than 16 or 17. Those seeds are planted long ago when parents are not paying attention. If you don’t set good foundations for the kids then later when they should know better, they don’t.
I agree their are no guarantees in life, but I have yet to know a pregnant teen whose parents were emotionally there for them growing up. Kids perceive quite well when you have other priorities such as work or finding your next lover.
So true. As a parent of a 14 year old daughter I am trying to warn her of everything I know failed me in the past. Even though I have given her every piece of wisdom I can we encourage her to speak with her friends. Keep everything out in the open. Our only prayer is she uses good judgment. I told her in her short lifetime before she is 21, some of her friends will make devastating poor choices and have even told her to prepare for the possibility of losing a friend. They are not kind words but words of experience. This is all I have to give other than a mothers daily prayer.
We will always support her as long as we are alive. Thank you for your post.
Exactly. And it’s also important to know your children well enough to know if they’re likely to be sleeping with scumbags like Levi Johnston (which really shouldn’t have been very hard, given that Bristol wasn’t sneaking around to see him, but bringing him home — and according to Sarah, telling her parents she planned to marry him, although anybody who’s been paying attention knows that was a bald-faced lie told as part of the emergency spin control effort). And if your teenage daughter is likely to be sleeping with guys like this, then you absolutely need to make sure she’s outfitted with passive contraceptives — IUD, Norplant, etc — something she can’t “forget”.