Why I got my girlfriend pregnant at 19

When I asked one of my friends why he got a lady pregnant at an early age of 19, guess the reply he gave me😁👇

"As a young African teenage guy who was just leaving home for the first time, one of the shock I experienced was how sexually active my peers had become.

Coming from a very strict cultural and religious background, sex or discussions as pertaining sex was more or less a taboo.

Arriving in Nursing School was the first time I was leaving home to be in an environment that to a greater extent was not regulated as I had freedom to do as I pleased.

Sex was one of the major things that aroused my curiosity — not that I was completely ignorant about sex, I had gleaned a bit from from television, books, peers at home and even adult conversations I had eavesdropped on.

When I finally navigated the “waters" to get a girlfriend, I was then faced with a problem — how do I access contraceptives to protect ourselves especially as pertaining pregnancy.

It was very difficult because of the culture and also the religious nature of our immediate environment. I as a teenager could not access contraceptives without being judged or even punished.

With no one there to tell me how to manage the urges that were coming with the hormonal surge of my teenage years cos even the school was shy to talk about it, I had to rely on peers.

They told me there was method they used - a method I discovered too late that they didn't have optimal knowledge of.

So I delved in using their incomplete knowledge on the withdrawal method and boom, my teenage girlfriend became pregnant.

I was responsible but can I say that family failed me, that the Church failed me, the society is not exempted and even the school that was established to give me basic form of knowledge deemed sexual knowledge "too advanced" to be given".

So what do u think about his response, is he right to have said that the family, church, society and school failed him?

Share your thoughts below please 🙏