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"I have. Stupidity. Recklessness. Irresponsibility was mine and A&amp;#x27;s (JD&amp;#x27;s father) malfunction. He knew I wasn&amp;#x27;t on the pill. I knew he wasn&amp;#x27;t wearing a condom. 1 + 1 = 3 one night in December of 2006. Although Jamie Lynn Spears and Bristol Palin are among the headlines, it&amp;#x27;s we twentysomethings, we adults (who should know better?), who are getting Storked! more and more. Why?Single, Pregnant and Panicked as Self calls it isn&amp;#x27;t just happening in high school bathroom stalls like on The Secret Life of the American Teenager, on the new 90210 or in Juno. Young women are leaving ideas meetings to go puke in the bathroom and feeling like naive sixteen-year-old&amp;#x27;s two years shy of 30 while staring hopelessly at a pee stick. It happened to me. I was 26. Self reports: This isn&amp;#x27;t supposed to happen to smart women. We want to believe that unwed mothers are teenagers who have been careless or clueless. The reality, recently reported by the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy in Washington, D.C., is that the majority of unplanned pregnancies and abortions occur among women in their 20s. After little variation during the 1990s, single women in their 20s are also giving birth at higher rates. And contrary to stereotypes, high-income, educated women are by no means immune: Four in 10 of the 1.1 million annual unplanned pregnancies to single twentysomethings occur to women with at least some college education. Still, why? Well, according to Self, &amp;quot;researchers found that women are often passive or ambivalent about getting pregnant, with more than one in four saying, If it happens, it happens or It would be no big deal.&amp;quot; It&amp;#x27;s a big deal, people. No matter how you deal with it. I smiled warmly at my computer screen when I read that Kortney Peagram (the woman featured in the article) blamed the random &amp;quot;bone-spitting fatigue&amp;quot; on account of the fact that she was a &amp;quot;vegan training for a marathon.&amp;quot; I was nauseous day in and day out because it was winter and flu season. Denial was all I had as I realized I was 1, 2, 3, 4 days late. I remember having dinner with A, Uncle Bri and his girlfriend convincing myself I was sick because the sushi was so fresh it could have crawled off my plate. Right, Christine. When I found out I was 150 percent pregnant I said to Aunt Nic: &amp;quot;This happens in movies or to twits on talk shows trying to figure out who their baby daddy is.&amp;quot; I was lost on the fact that I let this happen to myself. Read more about my utter shock in Rattled! because I certainly don&amp;#x27;t spare myself. And no, that doesn&amp;#x27;t mean I am not head-over-heels (sneakers?) happy with my sweet JD, because I am. It doesn&amp;#x27;t mean JD is going to read this blog or the book and feel sad. It means his mother is a real person and not just the person who cuts up his chicken nuggets and sings made-up songs. It means I didn&amp;#x27;t write a fluffy book about how cool it is to be a single mom. Having sex without protection was, IS, stupid. But, I mean, it turned out great, for me. It also turned out great for Kortney Peagram because some things are meant to be. Grab some tissues before you read page 7. Did you ever have a birth-control malfunction? What did you do? Plan B? Baby? Abortion? Adoption? Prayer? Denial? Ever have to help a friend out with her malfunction? I once bought a test for a friend. It was negative. Read Single, Pregnant and Panicked here."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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