My Views, My Thoughts: Teenage Mums
So, Kylie Jenner is supposedly pregnant.
Now, like most people of my generation, whether I like it or not I often find myself reading about the Kardashians. Regardless, of your opinion on them, they are definitely one the most influential families of our time, with their monopoly over the reality TV world and dipping their hands into nearly every single industry, it's hard to not respect their work ethic. But back to Kylie.
With her lips kits, kyshadows and other makeup items she has amassed a lot of money over a relatively short period of time, making her one of the richest 20 year olds on the planet. Yesterday, rumours popped up all over social media and the internet as a whole that she was pregnant. Some same it's a publicity stunt, some think the story is real but for argument sake let's say I believe it. As she just turned 20 and is reportedly 4 months pregnant, just for the sake of this blog I'm going to classify her as a teen mum. Now, she isn't the first teen mum and she won't be the last, but what I wonder is she going to receive the same stigma that most teen mums experience. Unlike other topics I write about, until recently I didn't really have an opinion on teenage mums. My mum was past 30 when she had me, I'm not a teen mum and none of my friends were.
Then, nearly 2 weeks ago my friend gave birth to an absolutely stunning baby girl and became a teenage mum. This topic of teenage mums was now close to home. I begun to feel guilty about the way I, alongside society as a whole had previously looked at teenage mums. But why is this stigma and judgement only exclusive to mums that aren't overtly rich or famous? Some may argue that money enables the rich to look after their children in a way that the average teen mum can't, but I don't think that's all that's needed to raise a child properly. Keep in mind this is my perspective as a 19-year-old childless girl so maybe I'm being idealist and naive, but there is more to life than money.
Don't get me wrong I enjoy holidays and nice things as much as the next person if not more but some of my best memories from my childhood are when we didn't money as a family and not the extravagant holidays we went on. I also don't think that maturity always comes with age or that you can ever be ready for children. When are you actually ready to be responsible for a human being for the rest of your life?
I know I've gone completely off topic but basically, as a society we should support and not stigmatise young mums because ultimately all children are all of our responsibility. Plus, I know my friend is going to be one of the best mums out there.
Now, like most people of my generation, whether I like it or not I often find myself reading about the Kardashians. Regardless, of your opinion on them, they are definitely one the most influential families of our time, with their monopoly over the reality TV world and dipping their hands into nearly every single industry, it's hard to not respect their work ethic. But back to Kylie.
With her lips kits, kyshadows and other makeup items she has amassed a lot of money over a relatively short period of time, making her one of the richest 20 year olds on the planet. Yesterday, rumours popped up all over social media and the internet as a whole that she was pregnant. Some same it's a publicity stunt, some think the story is real but for argument sake let's say I believe it. As she just turned 20 and is reportedly 4 months pregnant, just for the sake of this blog I'm going to classify her as a teen mum. Now, she isn't the first teen mum and she won't be the last, but what I wonder is she going to receive the same stigma that most teen mums experience. Unlike other topics I write about, until recently I didn't really have an opinion on teenage mums. My mum was past 30 when she had me, I'm not a teen mum and none of my friends were.
Then, nearly 2 weeks ago my friend gave birth to an absolutely stunning baby girl and became a teenage mum. This topic of teenage mums was now close to home. I begun to feel guilty about the way I, alongside society as a whole had previously looked at teenage mums. But why is this stigma and judgement only exclusive to mums that aren't overtly rich or famous? Some may argue that money enables the rich to look after their children in a way that the average teen mum can't, but I don't think that's all that's needed to raise a child properly. Keep in mind this is my perspective as a 19-year-old childless girl so maybe I'm being idealist and naive, but there is more to life than money.
Don't get me wrong I enjoy holidays and nice things as much as the next person if not more but some of my best memories from my childhood are when we didn't money as a family and not the extravagant holidays we went on. I also don't think that maturity always comes with age or that you can ever be ready for children. When are you actually ready to be responsible for a human being for the rest of your life?
I know I've gone completely off topic but basically, as a society we should support and not stigmatise young mums because ultimately all children are all of our responsibility. Plus, I know my friend is going to be one of the best mums out there.
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