I had my daughter at age 17 and don't regret a thing about missing out on those last couple of years of teenage stuff. I didn't have enough confidence to get a good education at a younger age but I don't blame that on having a baby. I regret marrying in my twenties, having a second child, and ending up divorced much more than I regret having a teen pregnancy.
hey I guess I am the only here, but at the sake of anyone's wrath I will say...I had my 1st at aged 17, still worked, still went to school, (HIGH SCHOOL) had 2nd at 19....didn't work and quit school at hubby's exsistence (sp????-) anyway he wanted me to...I was in nursing school at the local tech school....he was like "no, stay home take care of babies...) so I did....
only hubby left me when oldest was 2 and baby was 10 mos....
from there on...I had to move in with dad, get a full time job, raise babies on my own without hubby's assistance, althought his NEW girl had 4 kids he didn't mind taking care of...
but ANYWAY, at the wrath of others I WILL admit, yes, sometimes I resented my kids....not their fault, now I know looking back...but I had friends who either had NO kids, or who had kids whose dad was around to take care of them...
as for me, it was like, ok if I wanna go out, I gotta find a sitter, pack a diaper back, and child seat, drop off kids, deal with the clinging to the legs thing, pry away from kids, feel guilty, go party, get drunk then have to go to sitters, pick up kids in middle of night, wake them up, carry both to car, carry both outta car at out our house, try and get them back to sleep, feel guilty again, MEANWHILE ur friends either DON"T have kids at all or have hubby's watching them so that they were asleep hours ago....
I am NOT perfect....I was never the perfect mom I should have been....not perfect but I did want TIME TO MYSELF.....could never seem to get it, yeah although I never hurt/harmed/starved/mistreated/left-alone kids I did resent them at times...baby (and GOD) forgive me please....I just NEVER thought I'd be in the single parent position...I always thought even had ex and I split up he'd have took care of the kids and not abandoned them like he did....shoot my 2 yr old remembered him but by the time we re-connected my 10 month old had NO idea who "daddy" was....