I usually try to stay out of any "hot topics," but these days it seems that almost every post on here becomes one in some way, or another. So, based on that, I decided to put my two cents worth in on this.
I am relatively new to this board. I have really enjoyed reading the posts. However, I will say that the past couple of months have been more difficult to get through here. Mainly because the posts have been flooded with the "am I pregnant" questions from teens, and the whole debate on fatfamily.
I do not want to bash the young women posting here, but I got pregnant as a teen myself. As soon as I suspected I bought a hpt. To me that is just common sense. I didn't run to my computer to a message board to get strangers' opinions about my symptoms. Even if a possibly pregnant teen is too scared to buy a hpt on their own I would like to think they would at least have a friend go buy it for them. Again, it is common sense.
Yes, I can very well avoid reading these particular posts in question. I normally do so, but it does get to be a bit of a pain to have to screen through all of them that are flooding the screen to find the more logical ones. It seems by the time all the "am I pregnant" questions are posted, all the more logical posts have been pushed back onto the 2nd and 3rd pages, often getting overlooked.
Hey mods? Is there any way to move these "am I pregnant" posts to another forum where they belong? Such as pregnancy symptoms (exclusively), or teen pregnancy? This would help to clean up the general pregnancy forum.