Memphis High School Dealing with Pregnancy Boom

[Schneed10]

Originally Posted by hooskins

I highly doubt kids think its cool to be pregnant. I think they just dont realize what they are dealing with and they just think they wont get pregnant. The thought of sex and it's pleasures are much more short-term than pregnancy, and younger people always focus on the short term.

Not that they think it's cool, but the stigma is gone. I'm quite sure there's a number of those kids that think 'well if suzy cheerleader seems happy with a kid then maybe it's not so bad, so who needs a condom, sex feels better without it anyway'!

All in the name of rationalizing their desire to have unprotected sex.

Ultimately we'll never know because we can't get inside their heads, but that's my take. If other kids thought it was slutty to get preggers in high school, and they derided the pregnant teens for it, more of them would reconsider that condom decision.