I'm working in a small clinic in ZAMBIA. Every Wednesday and Friday, we provide a prenatal clinic. Pregnant women come to our clinic with their partners.
Last Friday, we found a girl whose age is just 16 and her partner is just 17 years old. They are still students.
They haven't gotten married yet, and the girl doesn't want to do it now. She told us she wants to finish her school first, and then she wants to get married. I saw her boyfriend, the baby's father. He looked just happy.
I worried about their life instead of him. Can that girl continue to study in school with a baby? Who will take care of the baby? Who will provide them money for living? Will that boy have any responsibility for his girlfriend and baby until he'll get married with her? That boy has no idea that he is still young. What if he'll find another girl who is much better than her in the future? And what if he'll find another one, isn't he going to regret that he already has a baby?
They are not rare here. We can find young girls who are pregnant. Their ages are 15, 16 or 17. We can find even 14 years old girls in the prenatal clinic. And they deliver. They don't terminate.
Their partners are also young. Some of them are married. Some of them are single. I can't understand why they don't feel scare about their future with a baby without a source of income? In ZAMBIA, are all young guys just romantic?
Young pregnant mothers and their boyfriend's family might think they are too young to have a baby. But they have no options like an abortion here so they might have to just accept the babies.
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