Too many kids think that getting pregnant, or getting someone pregnant, somehow gives them legal rights that they didn't have before. But the only right a male teen achieves on getting a girl pregnant is the right to support the child, and even that only after he is legally declared the father. The only right a female teen achieves on getting pregnant or having the baby is to make her own medical decisions and whether or not to keep the baby - and then, if the decision is to have and keep it, to care for it.
Pregnancy does not confer on any teen, male or female, legal emancipation. It does not confer on any teen the right to move out of the house without permission. A pregnant teen, or a male teen who gets his girlfriend pregnant, is still under the care and control of his or her parents or legal guardian and they still live exactly where that parent or guardian tells them they live. They do not get to choose who they see or what they do or where they go or where they live. Pregnancy does not make you a legal adult.

