Reply #13: And also, not to mention

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getting laid off from work, not being able to find work being pregnant, lack of health care, going through school pregnant, the stereotyping of being single and pregnant, etc., etc., etc.

My sister was 14 when she got pregnant. It freaked my parents out so bad that we ended up moving to a different town. She chose to keep her baby, my nephew. :loveya: She enrolled in high school in our new hometown. When she became a senior, she was nominated for Homecoming Queen. The school principle pulled her out of class one day before the vote occurred to *ask* her to withdraw her nomination because the principal didn't think it was appropriate for a teenage mother to represent the school. Imagine how my sis felt! It was awful. :cry: