If your girlfriend gets pregnant, does not terminate it through abortion, and you do not marry her, you could very well be required to pay child support until the kid is 18 years old -in about 2024. If you're 16 or 17 years old now, it's more years of paying then the amount of time you been alive as of now. By the time you are 35, you'll have spent over HALF of your enitire life paying child support - not to mention all the other hassles of dealing with her and the child.

I've done the same thing you did, and this could have happened to me (or anybody for that matter) - but I was also "lucky". When I think about what could have resulted from this behavior, I don't know why I acted so stupidly those times. I guess it seemed like the right thing to do at the time, but definitly was NOT.