will Lit let me mention teen pregnancy as part of someone's backstory?

[joy_of_cooking]

No description of the sex, just, "hey, my mom had me when she was fourteen, it was rough."

 

[TheRedChamber]

The general advice for this sort of thing.is you are fine as long as you keep it to around a sentence and dont sexualize it.

The other advice is never include anything you cant rewrite in a heartbeat if it does get bounced (you wont get branded for life just for a rejection)

 

[Euphony]

So long as it avoids any appearance of titillation.

To be safe, keep it as far from any sexual activity (even Lit allowed) as possible.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Probably also best to avoid referring to her shape or to “glowing.”

Em

 

[MelissaBaby]

I don't see how there would be a problem with it. It takes sex to have a baby, but having a baby isn't sex.

 

[Bramblethorn]

I had something like that in an early story here, no problem then.

 

[joy_of_cooking]

Thanks, everyone!

 

[mirafrida]

As long as nothing in the story rules out the possibility that it was an immaculate conception, then you should be fine

 

[lanceGibs]

As long as nothing in the story rules out the possibility that it was an immaculate conception, then you should be fine

You have a nice sense of humour

 

[YDB95]

I've mentioned it in a few of my stories with no adverse effects.

 

[TimDEnchanter]

I have published multiple stories here where any semi-intelligent semi-humanoid could discern that a child had been born to a teenage mother. In fact I have written stories, and published them here, poking fun at hypocritical local school boards and abstinence only education by having 18-year-old students taking the class already being mothers and fathers at the time the class took place.

I wrote a story about how an 18-year-old son took his 30-something (that's exactly how I put it) mother to prom because she was too busy caring for him as an infant to attend her own prom.

I believe the key is simply to never mention how the young women became pregnant.

 

[John_Vandermeer]

@joy_of_cooking, did you write this story, and did it fly? Anybody else, something similar recently?

I have the same question steming from a situation where a teen mother is forced to give her son up for adoption (FMC and MMC background only) but twenty years later tracks him down to meet and get to know him (actual momcest story).

 

[joy_of_cooking]

I haven't finished it yet so I don't know whether the site would publish it.

 

[lovecraft68]

It should fly, but the only thing consistent about any of these "rules" is inconsistency. Don't know until you try.

But what I would do if I were writing this is leave out the specific age. "My mother had me when she was still in high school." If the specific age is important, state mom's current age of 34 and "she had me twenty years ago"

I'm sure there are better ways to do this, its not my idea so I'm not vested in it enough to figure out what would work in the flow or tone of the story, but its a suggestion.

 

[THBGato]

@joy_of_cooking, did you write this story, and did it fly? Anybody else, something similar recently?

I have the same question steming from a situation where a teen mother is forced to give her son up for adoption (FMC and MMC background only) but twenty years later tracks him down to meet and get to know him (actual momcest story).

Yep. My very first story here featured a woman who had got pregnant aged 16.

 

[Gamblnluck]

No description of the sex, just, "hey, my mom had me when she was fourteen, it was rough."

You might get away with that. I think I did with one of my stories. I wanted a female character to have daughter and still be a certain age. I can't for the life of me think which of my stories.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

I can't imagine it being a problem, but you might want to put a note in the Notes field when submitting, quoting the relevant sentence.

 

[jehoram]

There might be a difference between "My mother had me when she was fourteen" and "I had a baby when I was fourteen." But as long as you left it at that, I don't see a problem with either one. But Laurel might.

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

No description of the sex, just, "hey, my mom had me when she was fourteen, it was rough."

Yup. From Summer to Remember:

My aunt Judy was the only family I had left and when I wasn't in school, I stayed with her. She wasn't actually my aunt. She had just adopted a sixteen-year-old pregnant girl and helped her raise her little boy the best she could. That sixteen-year-old girl was my mom, and I missed her terribly.