Is College This "Sexy?"

northeastmom
Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:57:19 +0000

LOTS of young men these days assume that if a young woman gets pregnant, she’ll have an abortion. That isn’t always a safe assumption. Should a young woman choose not to abort a child and raise it herself, a young man is financially responsible for that child until the child is 18 years of age. IMO, young men need to know this and need to take that into account.

IMO, if college students aren’t willing to have this discussion before having sex, they do not belong in bed with that person.



I completely agree with this. I have warned my older son that I am not raising another child, and that if he ever got a woman pregnant, he really loses control of whether that child is given up for adoption, who will raise it, if there will or won’t be an abortion, etc. I also told him that he will be responsible for that child if the mother decides to give birth to the child, and raises the child, whether he likes it or not.