Preventing an "accidental" teen pregnancy


This tip is primarily for parents of a teenager.


If, as the parent of a teen, you believe that there is such a thing as an accidental pregnancy then you are ripe for your teen surprising you one day with "accidental" pregnancy.

 

In other words, given your present belief system, he/she already knows that you'll accept "accidental" because you haven't delivered the following ultimatum:


    Parent to teen: No babies until you are living on your own and can afford all the costs. A pregnancy would be your way of saying you don't value our support and that you'll be moving out immediately. We refuse to pay for your pregnancy because we know it will be premeditated, not an accident. I mean what I'm saying. There will be no second chances about this matter. Do you understand? Be certain to tell each date, before you con them into wanting sex, about this consequence. Most importantly, ask each date if he/she is willing to pay child support through to age 18.


Typically a teen's "accidental" pregnancy explanation will contain a lie, such as, "I don't know how it happened" (a victim-blame statement) as opposed to, "I conned him into wanting sex and impregnating me." Or, "I arrogantly ignored everyone's advice and impregnated her knowing full well it would upset her parents and that it would delay/postpone or cause her to never have a profession."

Few teens will acknowledge to his/her parents, "I knew with absolute certainty that you didn't want an accidental pregnancy problem. I knew it would not feel good to you and that it would be abusive of me to dump such a problem in your space, but, obviously I don't respect you enough to honor your wishes."

Let's put it another way. Any teen who creates an accidental pregnancy is communicating to everyone (non-verbally) that he/she is not in-communication with his/her parents (there are no exceptions to this phenomenon). The implication being, "I wasn't experiencing love and affection at home so I found someone to 'love' me."  [Yes, teens mistake physical intimacy for love]. If a teen isn't observing affection between his/her parents, if he/she isn't continually receiving hugs from both parents, the teen automatically assumes that he/she is the cause of the friction between the parents, and that they (the teen) doesn't inspire love and harmony and, that they are not lovable [no matter how many words a parent uses to assure them that they are not the problem, that the teen is not responsible]. And so teens search outside the family for the illusion of love/communication. I say "illusion" because what teens "in love" experience is not communication; the foundation of their relationship is based upon deception, both hiding from their parents the fact that they are having sex.

"In communication" meaning: Teens need to know that they have a positive effect on their parents. If a teen tries to inspire his/her parents to opt for healthy choices or tries to bring the family together (perhaps the way it used to be) and fail they experience invalidation; the thought being, "If I can't affect happiness between my own parents then there must be something wrong with me." And so they begin living from the point of view that something is wrong with them and that they don't deserve happiness.
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All teen pregnancies have one thing in common. No parent of either teen sat their teen down to have the “birds and bees talk.”

 

Such talks always include:

1) Who pays for what? With the parent and teen sitting down together, itemizing in writing, all the estimated monthly expenses, including the $1000.00+ hospital birth costs.

 

2) Getting permission from his/her date's parents to have sex?

 

3) A discussion about the fact that sperm can swim through underwear.


4) Condoms break when it's important that they don't break, especially when there is a deceit being perpetrated.

 

5) And, the all-important fact that there are no accidents when it comes to pregnancies.


All pregnancies are a manifestation of either a conscious or an unconscious intention. The "talk"ť must include discussions about the unconscious motivations that produce a supposedly unwanted pregnancy. Just because one isn't aware of how or why they produced a result doesn'y mean that they didn't intend it.

Few parents of a pregnant teen acknowledge that the teen simply manifested their (the parent's) unconscious intention. Yes, both the mother and father unconsciously intended the pregnancy; we know this to be true based upon the results their leadership-communication skills produced. What's worse is they usually lie about it, they make the teen wrong and blame him/her, honestly believing that it has absolutely nothing to do with how they (the parent) communicated (verbally, non-verbally, and psychically) with their teen.

Parents who are absolutely clear that they have no intention for their teen to produce a pregnancy problem do not create such a problem. Teen mothers, when in communication with a communication-skills coach, will acknowledged that they can now see that it was their intention to get pregnant, partly because they didn't want to confront the alternatives (learning how to communicate with her parents or studying for a profession). Many girls are able to see that they conned a boy into impregnating her which selfishly thwarted the possibility of him furthering his education due to child-support bills.

Thwarting is something those in the process of crashing and burning do; they take as many down with them as possible (everyone's parents, relatives and friends). Others are able to see that a pregnancy was a way to make his/her parents wrong because they did a lousy parenting job.
Most all teen mothers have to acknowledge the possibility that their pregnancy might be the consequence of a perpetration, a deception, of deceiving her parents and of supporting her boyfriend in deceiving his parents. All teen fathers eventually have to acknowledge an "accidental" pregnancy as being a consequence of conning his girlfriend into deceiving her parents so as to have sex. Both teen parents live with the thought that though they might profess love for each other, neither truly have each other's best interests at heart in terms of continuing education. Worse, both arrogantly expect others (parents and welfare) to pay the costs of their perpetration.

All parents of a teen pregnancy hid from their teen that they, the parent(s), when they were a teen, deceived their own parents by conning their date into having sex behind the backs of both sets of parents. Parents who hypocritically "teach" truth-telling while hiding their own teen-perpetrations from their teen, train their teen to be deceptive.

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