Do you think a person can be mature enough to have children at age 14?

A 14 year cannot support a child emotionally and financially on their own!! They're still a child themselves. There's more to being a parent than just being physically able to give birth.

not at all, there are so many days a baby will overwhelm a person...then they become toddlers!

Unless you are able to get a good paying job and support the baby that you bring into the world, you shouldn't have children, no matter how old you are. You will only end up on welfare expecting other people to support you and your baby. That is very irresponsible. Be responsible!

No!!!! Add about 7 more years to that.

It's physically possible, yes. But as someone who had an 18 year old mom, I can assure you it's NO FUN to grow up WITH mom. There's so much that she didn't know yet. But other parents knew. Things she could never teach me. Things that I had to learn on my own, as an adult, making my own life extra hard. Especially emotional maturity.

no way absolutly no way. at 14 we THINK we know the ways of the world.. but we dont.

No. absolutely not. I am 39 and I can tell you that children require so much more than a 14 yr old can give them. They require 24/7 attention and the finances involved are more than you could ever imagine. Children should not be having children.

Absolutely not. Babies are a lot of hard work, physically, mentally, and financially. I really don't think any 14 year old could be mature enough. I'm 30 and have a baby and I'm not entirely sure I'm mature enough. :)

No. At age 14 you should be more focused on school, friends, and school activities. At age 14, some girls are just starting to understand their period, while others have had it for a couple years. They are still growing into adults and they shouldn't focus on sex and children when they are children themselves. Same goes for guys, who are also children and still growing up.

NOPE! I had kids at 18 and I don't think that is mature enough!

I raised my sister at the age of fourteen, it can be done, but no it is not the best situation for the teenager.

You cant afford to support yourself or your baby, you cant even legally work.

You cant afford, clothes, food, doctors, diapers, rent, gas, electric, trash, sewer, and phone. Then you have all the baby supplies.

There is no reason that you can not wait until you are at least 18, I tell my boys to wait till they are 25 to have a baby and get married, my guess is, that you want a baby to love you because yoyu dont feel love at home, it will not replace what you are looking for, it will cause many problem, then you may resent your children.

"No" with a dash of "yes". At 14 a girl's body is still growing and maturing and is not yet ready to carry a child. The risk of complications to both mother and child is high. Now that's the physical part. Emotionally and mentally, girls this young are for the most part in no way ready to handle the enormous burden of raising a child. They are still children themselves. Having said that, there are exceptions. My room mate tells of being friends with a gal in middle school who became pregnant at 13 and had the baby at 14. The girl stepped up to the plate, stayed in school and worked. Her entire focus was on raising her son from day one. Today he is a healthy, well-adjusted man. So there are exceptions but those exceptions are extremely rare.

No...still a child theirself...:)

no way

no

a child of 14 is not even fully mature, physically, let alone the emotional maturity needed to parent a child

Of course you can be. What better time to be mature too as in these modern times, sure times are hard, but the amount of help and guidance available and support about then the most people should worry about is keeping both mum to be and baby healthy and happy and look forward to a new life

no way. they havent even finished school yet. in grade eight i hadnt even gotten to second base never mind been ready for sex, not like i was a prude, my first sexual expiriance was 15 and first sex was 16, only after i was in love and protected. even now at 20 im still not mature enough.

now if someone had dropped out of school at say ten and been working in the real world for four years, met someone also not in school and working and fell in love that would be fine. as long as theyve been earning their won living and know the value of a dollar and how to take full care of themselves finatially and in other aspects. but while still in school and under thei [arents roof they have no idea about the real world, they arnt expected too, because its too much to deal with for most individuals at that age.

You don't have to be mature to have children. Just take a good look around. I was the oldest of 3 at home, from the time they were born they were my responsibility! That was just awful! Yes, I loved them, yes, I did take great care of them. Later in our lives this meant 0 to them! They have treated me mamy times as if I am a stranger. It can be avoided! Don't bring a life into this world until you have been able to live your life first. With age we all change so much, give yourself and your future children what all of us need. Time to be spent on YOU without grown up hassles.

In THIS society? No!

In rare cases.

NO!!!!

While it may have worked well for many of our ancient ancestors, our modern society is not set up to prepare 14 year olds to be "already" effective parents ... although there will still be a few above average exceptions that most definitely will be mature enough, the vast majority will not "yet" be ready for parenthood at that age ...

Strangely enough, I know a woman who did start her family at age 14. Most of the kids didn't turn out to be very responsible adults. But that is just an anecdote. I do think that theoretically it may be possible, but not in American society, which extends adolesence well past the teenage years.

Yes. Only there's a serious learning curve.
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Years ago that was the norm.
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And such a person will lose out on a lot of knowledge and some general maturing.
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The US is full of older girls raising their siblings, at least in part. Society has always depended on females to pick up the slack because generally speaking, females will.
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However. The 14-year-old will be working at a deficit, and the child of the 14-year-old will be born into and receive that deficit.
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So yeah, it can be done. But it you have a choice, don't do it.

nope, but unfortunately some do.

My husband's mother was 15 when his oldest sister was born. She was the daughter of a very poor share-cropper. I think she got married trying to escape poverty, only to find herself in an even worse situation. It certainly isn't ideal.

no way! i had a baby when i was 19 and it was so hard.
i was a baby having a baby. i was not done being a kid yet. at 14 i just had no clue.

Hell no. Giving birth would be easy compared to having to care for the baby for longer than the mother's been alive.

Flat out NO. They have no idea what there getting into, even if they grew up around kids and baby sitted a lot, they still have no idea. When your babysitting you get to give the kids back at the end of the day. With growing up around kids, you don't have to take care of them your parents or a babysitter has too, you can just go into another room. When you have kids, they only go away at the end of the day if you have someone else watching them, and that isn't very often. Being spontanious nearly goes out the window completely unless you take the kid or kids with you. And that can suck sometimes.

Obviously their frontal lobe isn't developed enough to think about the consequences of their actions and think about this stuff or they would have used a condom or some other type of birth control.

I'm 21 and don't have kids. I DON'T want kids. But I have a pretty good idea what i'd be getting into. People should REALLY get a good idea of what they would be getting into before even considering having kids.

And miss out on all the wonderful fun of your teen life and all those partys when you turn old enough to get down?? Why Not?? Poor you and most of all poor child!

In the United States, our culture is not geared for children age 14 to have babies. They are not considered capable of making mature choices for themselves, which is why it is against the law for them to even have sex at that age.

In many other cultures, maturity is not a consideration, because all they have to look forward to is a short life of nothing but hard work anyway, so it is more common.

Physically and sexually, yes. But emotionally and intellectually, no. While having children at a young age has been common throughout history in traditional cultures, those cultures did not require schooling in order to function in their societies. Modern Western society is so complex, with so many demands, that even by 21, the age of majority in most places, one is barely able to cope with everything you need to do, know, and manage. By law, people are not considered mature enough to hold the presidency of the United States until reaching the age of 35.

no way, not a chance. at least not in these days

No.

Of course they can be mature enough, seeing in the old old days this was common time. I don't recommend it, however, in modern day society.

Absoultely. After they have completed their education and have their career started in order to support themselves and others, it doesn't matter how old you are.

Yes - but totally dependent on the society within which it is happening. For example - in many tribal cultures girls have children as soon as they are physically able (and that can be as young as 8). Their husbands are often only 13 or 14. In their society, this is expected though.
In our society - where life is more complex and a child must learn much, much more before becoming adult enough to be a parent within it - no, 14 would be too young in most cases.

At 14 we are basically ignorant kids who do not know who the hell we are. You are not mature enough for anything significant in life.

Hell no.

No, some of them are still playing with toys at that age, others think that because they've hit puberty they should be allowes to have kids. It's pitiful.

Of course.

No, they are too young and need time to mature and grow themselves. A 14-year-old should definately get an abortion.

No child boy or gril is ready to become a parent
at that age they are still kids and have no clue
what life is really like out there in this big old
world so i say no

No. Simple answer.

no!

Fact from fiction, truth from diction. So long as it is not the United States. The globe over young ladies (because that is how they are seen in their nation) stap up to the plate and start families. Sometimes they are in places where they get a lot of support on the community level, sometimes not. They don't have the distraction of the mall, texting, sexting, and all the other creature trapping that make it seem the life they created without thought is a hinderance on all the fun they have to give up. As long as she is not in America, Yankee gals are just a bit too soft.

No. A 14 year old is still a child and needs to finish growing up. That means finishing school and going to college or getting a good job before even considering having a child.

not in our western society
maybe in the Amish community
If you're too young to make enough money to support yourself, then you shouldn't be breeding

No I don't.there still a child and therefor we all no a child cannto take care of another child let alone a miner.

No but i was 14 when i got pregnant and 15 when i had her ..i had to grow up fast but now till this day at the year 20 i have 3 kids and taking care of them so it could be true for a 14 year to be mature enough