In part of ‘’growing up’’, is the challenge of learning to face both good and bad results of our decisions squarely!
Abortion should not be one of your best options to a pregnancy. It is like a termination of waste from your body and if you do not want human life growing in you, why should you make one in the first place?
Abortion has serious consequences, many young girls in Uganda die while trying to abort, others became infertile, and others go through a lot of pain when it is happening. Even when successfully done, others are affected psychologically by it for the rest of their lives.
Running away from home, either, is not the wisest option to a pregnancy. A home is not just a house or roof under which people live. It is a natural bond of unity, love, forgiveness and belonging that yields over time in a family. This unborn child you want to run away with is a significant part of the new small family that you a child is starting with another child that still need your big families for growth and belonging.
In running away, you would be denying this child the right to a family, neglecting your responsibility as a parent, and opening bigger doors of challenges in your life like living a burdensome life with other relatives, exposure to street life and a threat of rape, child labor, and more –all for throwing away the beauty of family life by not telling your parents.
When you are a young person and you get pregnant you need a lot psychological and financial help. This can be got from your parents. When you get pregnant, you need to get a way of letting your parents know about it so that they can support you through the pregnancy and after.
Parents could be good listeners and probable best friends to you, if you tried to welcome them in your life and shared with them some of your challenges. They are normal human beings just like you and could understand your challenge.
