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Originally Posted by vanblah
To anyone saying that they would be disappointed in their daughter or the boy--think really hard about this for a moment: are you disappointed with the person or the situation?
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Both. My safe sex practices are the stuff of legend. It's reasonable, thus, to presume that I would be getting the pill with my daughter when she was 16-17 and teaching her all about the many forms of birth control and contraceptives, because I'm aware that like her old man she may very well be sexually active when she's young. She will be armed with knowledge at a young age. One would hope that this would make the unexpected pregnancy unlikely, but to be honest there are times when young people are caught up in the moment and forget to do what they should be doing. They behave in an irresponsible manner. As such, I'm sure I'd have every right to be disappointed with my daughter (and obviously the boy, though he may not have had such vigilant parents). I can be disappointed in her for letting herself forget all that I and her mother had carefully taught her.
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Originally Posted by vanblah
Teenagers are going to have sex ... we all know it. There is no stopping it. Birth control fails.
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The failure rates of compound birth control are nearly astronomical. If you combine pill, condom, and spermicide, your chances of getting pregnant drop off to an area close to 1/60,000 (according to my doctor). Those are the same odds that I've gambled with since I was 13, and I've never gotten someone pregnant that I didn't intend.
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Originally Posted by vanblah
I'm familiar with what the phrase "knocked up" means. In this (hopefully) hypothetical situation he didn't GET your daughter pregnant. Unless he forced her, they did it together. Period (or lack thereof).
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He put his penis in my daughter's vagina and ejaculated, releasing sperm that fertilized her egg. He knocked her up. It has nothing to do with "GET"ting someone pregnant, and I'm not even sure what that means.