Parents, teachers and media spent a lot of time telling my having a baby would ruin my life. They didn't want me to be a teen parent. I get it. But most of the

Parents, teachers and media spent a lot of time telling my having a baby would ruin my life. They didn't want me to be a teen parent. I get it. But most of the scaremongering wasn't about teen parenthood. It was just about parenthood, and life once you have too many responsibilities to enjoy being a teen. So once you do reach the age that raising children is more responsible, you still have to get past the same fears. Society has an irritating way of 'hazing' its juniors by telling them life keeps on going downhill. So far I've found the opposite, and that I'd be better equipped to handle it anyway.