Teen parents! Fight for OUR place!

[downtherabbitwhole]

We need one.. People excuse it cause it is "in support" of it.. but they have ED ones.. isnt that supporting it too? And yes there are enough people.. youd find if you made one, more people would pop up than you think. We to deserve a forum, just as much as deprresion, and music. And if you deny this.. then thats just FACIST! there willl not be ONE acceptable reason to why you shouldnt make one. Dont count us out too! everyone alse does.

[Jess]

imo we don't need one. stuff about teen parents can go in Family and Friends (http://www.virtualteen.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=189)

[Kaius]

Exactly. Plus there are more people on here suffering from EDs than teen parents. I agree its good to have a support forum but that can go under family and friends. Thing is more of a psychiatric help forum and EDs go under that. Psych is what we specialize in and there really isn't a big demand for a teen parenting forum. There are plenty of pregnancy/teen parenting forums on the internet im sure you can find some support there also.

[Everthehopeful]

I think it's actually a good idea. My mother was 15 when I was born, nearly 16 and she was luckier than most teen mothers because my grandmother was there to support her. But instead of a whole section for it, maybe you could do it like you did for ADHD and OCD and just split it off as a topic under a topic.

Just a suggestion... :)

[Giles]

I think it's actually a good idea. My mother was 15 when I was born, nearly 16 and she was luckier than most teen mothers because my grandmother was there to support her. But instead of a whole section for it, maybe you could do it like you did for ADHD and OCD and just split it off as a topic under a topic.

Just a suggestion... :)

I support this minor course of action, over creating an entire new section. But I have to wonder if it even justifies having a sub-topic, I mean - is it really that common here?

[Fiction]

I think comparing it to an ED forum is ridiculous O.o

No one ever argued that by creating a teen parent forum it would encourage the problem, but an ED isn't just decided on. It's an illness, you don't chose to have one.

I understand that teen parenting is also not always a choice, but for anyone that is encouraged to do so by the forum, that would be a choice.

I'm not against having a teen parenting forum, I just think attacking the ED forum and all the good it does was uneccessary.

[letluvbleedred]

We need one.. People excuse it cause it is "in support" of it.. but they have ED ones.. isnt that supporting it too? And yes there are enough people.. youd find if you made one, more people would pop up than you think. We to deserve a forum, just as much as deprresion, and music. And if you deny this.. then thats just FACIST! there willl not be ONE acceptable reason to why you shouldnt make one. Dont count us out too! everyone alse does.

I think that its is a great idea to to start a teen parent section of the forum. They deserve it just as much as anyone else. I support (not encourage, its different) teen parents. Their rights as an equal deserved to be heard.

You go girl! Fight for it!

[Sparrowhawk1161]

As an adult with a daughter, I think parents and adults should be on the adult teen areas. As I am. But, since it is a teen thread, I believe an adult should be aware of what this is.

It's a teen site. Teens have governance. If you reply to a teen, respect them and their views. Be helpful. Never hurt them. Be helpful and remember, we adults were teens ourselves, so where are they coming from? Do you love your own daughter? Son? If you can't come in as that... leave...

[Giles]

I think that its is a great idea to to start a teen parent section of the forum. They deserve it just as much as anyone else. I support (not encourage, its different) teen parents. Their rights as an equal deserved to be heard.

You go girl! Fight for it!

They have those rights. I/we just don't think that there's a large enough demand for it to justify creating anything new for it, anything about teen parents has previously went in Friends & Family, what's the problem with it continuing to go there - it's pretty intuitive that teen parenting goes into the family section.

[Weeping]

Well, VT was originally created for teens with mental ilnesses.
Also, I don't believe that the need for it is very big here. In that case it'd be like a subforum of Family and Friends (http://www.virtualteen.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=189).
If you really need a place specially for teen parenting, I'm sure there's great forums that were created for that purpose too.

[BrokenButterflies]

I'm not a parent, but I kind of think it's a good idea! I have friends (notice the plural), who are, and they are judged unmercifully for it. They deserve a support section just as much as we need an ED section. Granted their may be less teen parents then there are people with eating disorders, but does that mean that they mean any less?

(and I actually never knew VT started out as a mental health site...)

[Giles]

Granted their may be less teen parents then there are people with eating disorders, but does that mean that they mean any less?

They don't mean less but the level of need for what you're suggesting needs to justify itself. So there needs to be enough people to justify having the subsection because if there isn't enough of a 'demand' for it then it'll just be dead for most of the time - which is pointless when you could just go and post about teen parenting in Family & Friends and ultimately get more responses and a wider audience.

[Donkey]

Questions regarding teen parenting can be posted in the Family and Friends section.

[downtherabbitwhole]

I think comparing it to an ED forum is ridiculous O.o

No one ever argued that by creating a teen parent forum it would encourage the problem, but an ED isn't just decided on. It's an illness, you don't chose to have one.

I understand that teen parenting is also not always a choice, but for anyone that is encouraged to do so by the forum, that would be a choice.

I'm not against having a teen parenting forum, I just think attacking the ED forum and all the good it does was uneccessary.

oh sorry should have explained more. in NO way was i attacking it or sugesting it was anything less than a disoreder, i myself and EDNOS, i was basing off the last suggestion of this topic, in wich people dismissed it (as they have done here), asumming it will 'encourage teen prgnancys', which is exaclty why it was dismissed last time. When infact if thats why people are saying no, i was marely pointing out, well what about the ED groups. ALSO your now dismissing it as it was mainly created as a mental ilness help thingy.. well then how come theres a music forum????