Need a bun in the oven?” Fake a Baby.com can help. If you want to fake your pregnancy with convincing plausibility, that’s the website to surf. Fake a Baby.com has it all – DNA tests, fake pregnancy bellies and bogus pregnancy documents. They even slash prices on their new fake ultrasounds.
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What they offer is so convincing that a teenage girl in Wyandotte, Michigan, pretended for months that she was pregnant with triplets using “Fake a Baby” products, according to Fox2 News. She allegedly used a fake pregnancy belly and sonogram images to mislead her 16-year-old boyfriend and community into believing she was expecting. The website claims to be selling the “Best Gag Gifts on Earth” but imitating a real pregnancy can turn into a chain of real-life problems.
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A couple of months ago, the video of a girl who thought it be fun to trick her boyfriend went viral. She called her partner into the room and showed him a fake pregnancy test along with an ultrasound image. Immediately, he accused her of cheating on him because he couldn't have children; however, it actually turned out that the guy saw the camera and decided to prank his girlfriend back.
This week, an Aussie businesswoman also angered millions with her fake pregnancy. The video was apparently used as a social media strategy to boost the profits of a holiday company. Furthermore, some claim that a stunt pregnancy announcement, and a miscarriage, turned vlogger couple Sam and Nia into YouTube stars.
Fake Pregnancy Pranks Have Become More Popular - ClapwayThese days, you can come across dozens of tutorials on the Internet that will teach 'pranking masters' how to fake a pregnancy. You can even find counterfeit tests that always look
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children are told that a baby has arrived and they can not see their mother for
I didn’t think much of it at the time – I assumed she meant that he might put the diaper on funny or dress the baby in mismatching clothes. What I didn’t realize was that my friend was warning me against a phenomenon known as “maternal gatekeeping.”
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In most cases becoming pregnant brings happiness and excitement to the eager partners. Imagine showing up at a hospital, rushing, with all hopes of bringing another life into this world to only figure out that there was no baby in the first place. How would one feel devastated, hurt, depressed? Some women imagine she is pregnant, but soon finds out that the symptoms are not caused by a fetus but by a disorder called pseudocyesis. Pseudocyesis is a psychological disorder where the mind tricks the body and causes the female body to have symptoms of a pregnant woman. A women with this disorder have similar symptoms to a lady that is carrying a child; meanwhile, others have the exact same symptoms excluding the unborn. Some of the symptoms are swollen belly, enlarged breast, and sensations of fetal movement. One who feels the need to become impregnated, due to infertility, and miscarriages can cause ones body to fabricate indications of a pregnancy. Pseudocyesis can make a woman change mentally and physically; therefore, these changes can cause one to have depression, anxiety, and psychological disorders.
Im sure we’ve all heard of the television shows who talk about teen pregnancy. MTV documents a show called 16 and pregnant, which explores the lives of different young girls in their early life of pregnancy. As well as this show MTV made a spino...
Although there are still troubles with teenage pregnancy, there are people out there who are putting forth effort to help the social problem. Countless organizations are beginning to show up and attempt in helping these teens. There is a group that started in Austin, Texas called The Tandem Teen Prenatal and Parenting Program. “Tandem has been effective in improving the health and well-being of teenage parents and their children and has more than halved the national subsequent pregnancy rate of 24% among its clients by more then half” (Rosell, Scarborough, Lewis, 2010). Tandem is trying to help in improving the lives of the teen parents who do not have much help from anyone else. “They provide one-on-one prenatal education at appropriate intervals, with the aid of topical packets that include print and video material” (Rosell, Scarborough, Lewis, 2010).
Thomson recognizes that this thought experiment has a very limited application – specifically to those instances where a pregnancy is the result of coercion or violence. In the sec...
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Teen pregnancy has become an epidemic in the United States alone. Today, more than half of all teenagers report having had sexual intercourse at least once before leaving high school (Glazer, 1993). Each year, almost 750,000 U.S. women, aged 15–19 become pregnant (Guttmacher Institute, 2011).
The purpose of a study done by Somers and Gleason was to study the effectiveness of the BTIO program that utilizes fake children to simulate parenthood. The sample was comprised of two samples of adolescents. They were mostly Caucasian with the first group being 9th and 10th graders and the second group being 11th and 12th graders. Each of the groups was administered the questionnaire before the BTIO training and after the BTIO training. After the program students showed positive indications of lessons learned in the training. This research provides hope that mock childrearing experiences can offer some contribution to the deterrence of teen pregnancy (Somers, 1999).
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claims to have seen her baby being carried away by a dingo and then assumes
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A 19-year-old new mother, named Sheryl asked her boyfriend to watch her 8-month-old baby while she went shopping. Her boyfriend kindly agreed assuming that the baby would fall asleep, and he would continue watching the game. However like most newborn babies, Sheryl’s child was a little fussy and was crying. That caused Sheryl’s boyfriend to get annoyed and agitated. He went over to the baby, picked him up and shook him hard. When Sheryl came home she found her baby injured, unfortunately what happened to Sheryl’s baby it’s something that happens to many children in America every day.