I'll have what she's having...

Aside from being Pro-Life, my ideal option for teenage pregnancy is adoption. I'd mentioned before about a couple who have been trying to adopt a child from China for over 6 years now. As you know, China politics when it comes to adoption are rather strict and a long process. Also, considering after about 3 years into the process, China hosted the Beijing Olympics, which of course, set it back even further. This couple is the most amazing, caring and loving couple I've ever had the privilege to know. I could not imagine a better couple to be parents to a young child. I had even said to my mom that if my some immaculate conception I were to get pregnant, I would give them my child in a heartbeat. Fortunately, the process has dragged on long enough and this couple will receive a little baby girl from China in March!


Here's a famous couple who adopt...and adopt...and adopt...and adopt...

So another good option would be to give the baby to Social Services, who would then put them in foster homes until they find permanent adoption or foster parents. Now I know the idea of a foster home is scary to some because it's portrayed through the media as being a dangerous, abuse-filled environment. In reality, I personally know a family who've been taking in foster children for over 5 years now. With three children total,  these parents decided that they wanted to make a difference in the lives of these abandoned kids. I have never seen a closer family than that of the Sargent family. They've had children come and go in their houses, some more disciplined than others, but they still treated each child with the same amount of love and respect that they had for their own children. So who says foster homes are scary?

Let's stick with the birth control.

I just had so much fun writing about birth control last time, that I thought: "Hey..people don't get bored reading the same thing twice, right?"

Well, for your sake, I'll change it up a bit.
WARNING: Boys, I'm sorry. This topic may make you slightly uncomfortable.

In my last post, I mentioned a lot about the birth control pill, which is evidently designed for women. 

If you read the last post, you'll see that I mentioned a BUNCH of side effects of the pill and how it can really screw up a women's hormonal system and lead to crazy things like mood swings or depression (thank you Kailey Romanick for the comment on my last blog with the previous information. M. Noecker, that counts as a source.)
So as I was saying, the pill often has negative side effects on women and can also sometimes have impacts on their reproductive systems. Imagine a situation where a young girl, say 16, is told by her doctor that she must be on a permanent birth control (meaning no periods) or else she becomes infertile. (I know I've mentioned this before, but bare with me here.)
Well, as scared as I was faced with this situation, I couldn't help but think : Wait a minute here, if I don't ever have a period..how will I even be able to have a kid? Doesn't a woman need to be able to have a period and ovulate in order to get pregnant? I just kept thinking how both of those options that the doctor gave me were completely useless, cause either way, it seems I won't be having kids.
Naturally, I'm going to complain about this to people. So I was talking to someone (again, can't remember who. I'm horrible with names.) and they said "well, what if the man took birth control instead of the woman?"

...Interesting.


So here's my proposal : I believe scientists and doctors alike should come up with a form of birth control for a man to take to help reduce the chances. Some of you may say : well he does, he has the condom. My counter-argument is that the condom doesn't even affect the guys' reproductive system.
I feel that, if the women has been on birth control for years and years, it's bound to take its toll on the whole system, right? And that baby is developing inside said uterus for 9 months! So wouldn't it make more sense for the male reproductive system to be affected, and not the female? You know, for the sake of the development of the kid?
Give me your thoughts! (if you actually managed to follow any of that... even I had a hard time.)

xoxo Gossip Girl.




JUST KIDDING!


Love, Crystal :)