One, a woman running for president
just picked up a big state in a primary.
Yes, and the other is a 16 year old girl,
pregnant, shopping for a crib.
Now, I know what life I want,
but who is your role model?
That's the question of the day at TeenUp.net.
- Sidney Bloom
Sara, honey, growing up is not a race.
Rushing will not get you there any faster.
- Lorraine
It's like you should grow extra arms when you're having kid.
- Student teen mom
Brady: No.. I'm not accepting it.
Nurse Daly: You have no choice, I'm resigning, and protest.
Brady: Why not stay and fight.
Nurse Daly: Because no one will back me up.
And you haven't been much help either.
Brady: I'm trying to keep the lines of communication open here.
Because I know how important this is.
Please... try to be a little more flexible.
Sidney: Okay, right, it's embarrassing to buy condoms.
Becca: Totally, so, uhm.. why do you made me commit.
Sidney: Because when I was your age, I was too embarrassed.
And I know, that at some point you haven't decide
if you wanna be uncomfortable for a couple minutes,
or extremely uncomfortable for nine months.
Take your pick.
Sara: I missed you. Did you miss me?
Jesse: Like crazy.
Sara: Don't say if it isn't true.
I don't hate you, Sidney. I hate the choice you made.
- Brady
Sara: You can't be serious.
Sidney: Sara, the media is only focusing on, if and when, who said what, and how.
They're not paying attention to the real issue.
You can change that, Sara. You can make people think.
Sara: No. No, I'm tired of this and I don't want to hear about it anymore.
I hate this.
It's not a judgment, Lorraine. It's a question.
- Sidney
So, today somebody said to me that I had no right
to talk about teenage pregnancy because I wasn't a mother.
As if I don't have no ability of understanding what's going on here
with at least young girls that are pregnant.
- Sidney
The truth is, when you get pregnant at young there are no good options.
Adoption, abortion, keeping it..
they're not gonna turn out exactly like you think.
They're gonna be painful and then your life will completely change forever.
- Sidney
What we need to do now is have a real conversation
about how to help young woman make informed choices with themselves.
How to help them prevent a pregnancy if they're to young to handle it,
and how to help them succeed as mother's, if their choice is to have child.
Then, maybe we can tell them what every parent wishes to hear,
"congratulation on the new baby, we wish you both nothing but joy."
- Sidney
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