Cradles

             Every mom loves to hold their newborn infant, hearing their first cry and feeling their need to be fed. Imagine an 18-year-old girl doing her hair, putting on her new favorite dress, trying to hide her pregnancy, and getting into the car with her boyfriend, ready to go to the senior prom. Once they arrive there, they start walking along with the other seniors. Suddenly she needs to go to the bathroom. There in the bathroom she delivers her baby and then shoves him into the trash can. Several teenage mothers are secretly disposing of their newborn children, in many despicable ways. Many teenage girls get pregnant today as a result of having sex with their boyfriends before marriage, and therefore when they get pregnant, they go into denial, hide their pregnancy, and kill the baby.
             As a result of unwanted teenage pregnancies, most of the girls go into denial and try to hide their pregnancy. According to Newsweek, "Alexander Obolky, a psychiatrist at Northwestern University, said that many women are in "psychotic denial" which is brought on by the pressure of keeping the secret." These teenage girls go into denial because they don't want to talk to anybody about their pregnancy. They feel overwhelmed by shame of having their friends and family judge and point fingers.
             This combined with the inability to believe that this could happen to them, is life changing and stressful. The main thing is they do not want to admit it when the time comes for them to go to college. Many teenage girls see pregnancy as very much interfering with their future plans. They construct elaborate psychological mechanisms to convince themselves and if they can even those around them, that it's not possible for them to be pregnant.
             Teenage pregnancies also make many girls try to hide their pregnancy, and they do it in many ways. Most of the girls will say that they have gained weight. They start wearing baggy clothes an
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