Teenager getting pregnant for has been frowned on many years Every parent has high hopes and dreams for their children the News of a “baby coming can be shocking and disappointing to parents. But this story is not about facts of teen pregnancy, it is a story about a young girl who overcame the impossible At the time of conception, she still believed that anything could be possible. That young girl was me. It was 1986, Ronald Reagan was president, Mike Tyson was the youngest heavy weight champion in America, and the Challenger was headed to space before disintegrating on television. At the time I was seventeen years old, in high school, and living at home with my parents in Los Angeles, Ca. It seemed liked the world around me was just waiting
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We had known each other since elementary school, and we decided to make our relationship official in high school. Wherever he was, I was, too. We were like two peas in a pod. Throughout high school, I was a virgin. As our relationship grew, I began to feel the pressures of pre-marital sex like most teenager .My Boyfriend would beginning to tell me how very strongly he wanted us to have sex. I was raised Baptist and my parent didn’t believe in sexually actives before marriage, I was raised with very strong Christian beliefs, my strength heavily involved in the Christian faith. Therefore, anything aside from attending church was not on the table and heavily restricted in my parent’s home. One day my boyfriend said to me, “If we don’t have sex, I’m going to have to break up with you.” I was so confused. I didn’t know what to do. After a few days, I noticed some changes in him. He no longer hung out with me, but he began to hang out with the more sexually active …show more content…
She made me feel welcome and introduced me to other girls like me. She took me into her office and we talked. I began to tell her how disappointed my parents were and how hard it was going to be for me and how all I could think of was to giving up. Before I left, she gave me a book, “Why Does the Caged Bird sing,” by Maya Angelou with a book mark in it and it read:
To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision. Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity. It becomes easier to die and avoid conflict than to maintain a constant battle with the superior forces of maturity (Angelou). 1969 autobiography.
That book changed my life! I read it and I began to really think about life and the struggles of Ms. Angelou. I began to admire the fact that she was just like me, a black female, teen mom, and pregnant at sixteen, yet she was able to overcome and become a world renowned poet. It reminded me of a story about a young girl who was shamed. This shamed was instrumental to become the woman she is today. What most thought was the inevitable finishing high school and started my own business, was impossible in the early
We had known each other since elementary school, and we decided to make our relationship official in high school. Wherever he was, I was, too. We were like two peas in a pod. Throughout high school, I was a virgin. As our relationship grew, I began to feel the pressures of pre-marital sex like most teenager .My Boyfriend would beginning to tell me how very strongly he wanted us to have sex. I was raised Baptist and my parent didn’t believe in sexually actives before marriage, I was raised with very strong Christian beliefs, my strength heavily involved in the Christian faith. Therefore, anything aside from attending church was not on the table and heavily restricted in my parent’s home. One day my boyfriend said to me, “If we don’t have sex, I’m going to have to break up with you.” I was so confused. I didn’t know what to do. After a few days, I noticed some changes in him. He no longer hung out with me, but he began to hang out with the more sexually active …show more content…
She made me feel welcome and introduced me to other girls like me. She took me into her office and we talked. I began to tell her how disappointed my parents were and how hard it was going to be for me and how all I could think of was to giving up. Before I left, she gave me a book, “Why Does the Caged Bird sing,” by Maya Angelou with a book mark in it and it read:
To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision. Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity. It becomes easier to die and avoid conflict than to maintain a constant battle with the superior forces of maturity (Angelou). 1969 autobiography.
That book changed my life! I read it and I began to really think about life and the struggles of Ms. Angelou. I began to admire the fact that she was just like me, a black female, teen mom, and pregnant at sixteen, yet she was able to overcome and become a world renowned poet. It reminded me of a story about a young girl who was shamed. This shamed was instrumental to become the woman she is today. What most thought was the inevitable finishing high school and started my own business, was impossible in the early