Why do teenagers/really young people want kids NOW?

I personally don't want children at all,but I can kinda see why people would want them in the future.


But what I can't understand is teenagers/young people who want kids NOW!


Don't they realise they have years to have children and that they are wasting the years they could be using having a great career or fun?


I'm not saying it's wrong,I'm just saying I don't see why people want them so early.


Why is this?Why do teenagers/really young people want kids NOW?
They probably hear that they get benefits when they're single parents and it sounds like a lot of money to them





I don't get it either, where I live, we have so many tennage mothers. They've totally ruining their lives.Why do teenagers/really young people want kids NOW?
It's usually one of two reasons. Many are desperately looking for love and want a child to have somebody to love and to get love in return. Others just want to feel grown up. They don't realize what adulthood really has in store for them and don't know how to appreciate childhood.
I feel like something has shifted in society a bit...with so many celebrities having children out of wedlock these days, I almost feel as though babies are starting to be looked at as an ';accessory';, just like little dogs were for the last few years. This, of course, cannot be generalized like this for everyone, but...it might seem that way. And this, of course, is NO reason to have a baby!
Everyone is different and has different feelings towrds what they want to do with their lives. Some people just feel very maternal and cant wait to become mothers (or fathers-in which case-paternal) and have no desire to ';party';. And its not impossible to have a career after having kids. With all this mentioned it is also very obvious now that in-fertility is on the rise and to be honest i think i would chose family over career any day, i'd rather be old and in company than old and alone
Kids/Teens want kids because maybe they want to take care of children and think they are mature enough. About 30% chance is that teens are RAPED and commited to sex... Children are also in abuse from other people. Some kids/teens also want children because maybe their parents want grandchildren.





This is what I think about...
Not all of them try for them and everyone has their own thoughts.
they want to experience how children are like...i guess i'm a teen but i never known a person who's had a child...that's for sure!
well..


im only 14..


i don't want a baby because i know that there will be time for it in the future..


but i know they want babies because it will make them feel responsible.. but most of the kids who want them soon realize that they can't handle it... thats why there are so many children in foster care and being put up for adoption.


as for me.. i plan to go to college... and start a career and if children are in my future... BRING IT ON!! =]
I don't know. I had a baby when I was in college and geez, I wish I had waited. It had such a profoundly negative effect on my life and on my son's life. I could have been such a better mother, but here's the kicker...it was an accident! These girls want to have babies! They have no way to support them, no jobs, no nothing.





Maybe it's just that they seek unconditional love. Babies love their mom's because they know nothing else. In a world where we tend to be selfish and self centered, I think that maybe these kids are desperately seeking love and attention. Nowadays both parents work, or they grow up in single parent homes where the parent is always busy working or going to school or both, and the parents just don't have time for the kids. It breaks my heart to know that I went through a lot with my son (and I still have struggles), and people are willfully signing up for the heartache and pain that I endured! It's crazy!
it's hormones. It truly is. In olden times girls were 'women' at 13 and were already expected to have children. Instincts haven't changed, but times have.
Some are delusional and think of a baby as something to love that will love them in return forever and ever.
I'm a young mom. I got pregnant when i was 17. I don't really think that we all want kids. I think it's just a different generation. Kids these days are not having protected sex for the most part and birth control is ok but i still got pregnant while i was on the patch. Abortion and adoption is becoming more and more frowned upon as well. Teens use to get pregnant and it was either get an abortion or give the baby up, that isn't really the thing to do these days.It just the world changing is all.
I think maybe alot of teens/young people are looking for something they don't have, like family or some kind of security. It's quite sad. I think you need to be so mature, financially stable and ready to devote yourself to the good of another human being. Most, not all, younger people are not ready for this kind of responsibility.
my honest opinion is that young girls are having babies just for the money the government gives after they've had the child. And believe me,if only they realised just how expensive a baby was before they had one, they wouldnt be having one until they were a bit more finacially stable.