Okay, so, I was looking to see if anyone else on here is in the same boat as me (ie young mums) and it seems like a fair number of people on here are totally against it. I'd just like to add my piece before I go to sleep.
A little backstory: I'm Asia, I'm 15 and I have a 10 week old baby boy, Emil. Emil's father is 19 in May and is now at university in a completely different part of the UK to where I live.
His father (not sure if he's still my boyfriend now he lives 400 miles away) pressured me into sleeping with him I suppose. But then I'd rather not discuss it. About six weeks later I told my parents I was pregnant, and they flipped their lids - well, you could hardly blame them could you? - and they threatened him with pressing charges against it, but I talked them out of it. He has to pay child support now, but then that's a tiny amount because he doesn't earn much. My school asked me politely to leave (ie they kicked me out) once they noticed I was preggers, so I had to go to a less stringent school instead. That's alright, because they make allowances on homework for me and other girls in my situation. As you can probably tell, the subject I have to do most homework for is English.
I look after my son the best I can on my own, but my parents have to help because he is a lot of work. Recently he's been sleeping more peacefully, giving me more free time in the evenings. But still, I have homework and I have to revise for my GCSEs this summer (as I said, particularly English), and now my parents make me 'earn my keep' so I have to clean the house for them. But then I remember how it could be much worse. There are a lot of people who seem to think 'teenage mum=chav', but that's not the case. I may be from Darrrrrtfud, but I'm no chav - I listen to Morrissey, Julian Cope and The Cure, for God's sake!
I haven't worn tracksuit bottoms for about 3 years, and even then it was for PE.
Well, that's all I can say, I'm very tired and I need to get up early tomorrow. Good night! xx