📝 AITA for not telling my parents I’m pregnant because I know they’ll force me to keep it and I don’t want to?

By Free-Profession6258 • Score: 1 • April 15, 2025 5:12 PM


I (15F) found out I’m pregnant about a week and a half ago. I told my boyfriend (16M) two days after I took the test. He didn’t freak out or yell or anything he just went really quiet. He asked me what I wanted to do, and I told him the truth: I don’t want to keep it.

We’re kids. We’re not ready for this. I don’t even know how to drive yet, let alone raise a baby. He nodded and said he’d support me no matter what I decide. That meant a lot, but it didn’t make the situation feel any less heavy.

I haven’t told my parents. I can’t. They’re very religious the kind that thinks birth control is a sin and abortion is “murder.” If I tell them, they’ll make me keep it. No discussion. No understanding. They won’t care what I feel or what I want. They’ll say this is what happens when you disobey God and that it’s my “consequence.”

The thing is, I’m not even sure I believe what they believe anymore. I know I made a mistake a big one but I don’t think having a baby right now is the right answer for me. I can’t picture going through with this and giving up everything: school, my future, myself. I know it sounds selfish, but I don’t feel like a person anymore. I feel like a problem.

I want to go talk to a clinic or a counselor, just to figure out what my options are, but I’m terrified someone will tell my parents. I'm trying to stay calm, trying to act normal, but every day I feel like I'm falling apart more inside.

So yeah AITA for keeping this from my parents, even though I know they’d want to be involved because I already know they’ll force me to do something I don’t want to do?

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