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I Became a Father at 16
Today I know what it’s like to be a Father at 16
Adolescence should not be the right time for a boy to exercise paternity, since he is not mature enough to do it, but, I already lived this reality, and at the beginning, it was very difficult.
I was a very explosive boy, who ventured into everything, I went to live with my grandparents at the age of 4, since then I grew up in a neighborhood where the biggest way to get money was drugs and prostitution.
At the age of 14, I already frequented some Karaokes, parties, where the atmosphere was quite heavy for a teenager. I almost didn’t care about the advice given by my grandmother, so if I heard it in the beginning I wouldn’t be able to pass the humiliation I went through when I became a father at the age of 16.
I was a friend of adult people, in my neighborhood, it was very normal, and they laughed at me because I never talked about my sex life to them, for me it was taboo, it was something I never felt, but they put pressure on me, staying in the group depended on my sexual involvement for them I had to know how this experience is.
“All of us were once teenagers, for sure, we had our rebellion. But adulthood and its responsibilities sometimes do not allow us to remember what we were like and we ended up being too exaggerated ”
