I do too. I don't get it. I know birth control is not 100% foolproof, but many options are 99%.  I'm guessing people aren't using it regularly because they are kind of OK with getting pregnant. 

I think people just don't use precautions. I am surprised there aren't more rampant STDs!! Or maybe there are... I don't know!

I too find it baffling.  2 yrs ago, SD24 had an unplanned pregnancy - honestly she is not a teen - why don't these young women get some sense?  She ended up having an abortion.  

I honestly think a lot of it has to do with education and acceptability of contraceptive use.

I was “smart” as a kid and I still made stupid choices because I didn’t feel I had options in a way. There was no way when I started having sex that I could have been on birth control. I didn’t have easy access and my parents weren’t going to take me. My “boyfriend” was stupid and didn’t care about condoms and I just wanted to do what I wanted to do. I’m very lucky I didn’t get pregnant.

As a college student I did use condoms and yes we had one break. Accessing Plan B was a nightmare and the cost was insane. I became religious for a week just to eat after that because it took my food budget to buy the emergency contraceptive.

I also know people who didn’t realize their antibiotic caused the pill to fail or those who missed taking it by and hour and ended up with a child in the long run. My family is highly fertile and our body overcomes the weaker forms of the pill. I have multiple cousins whose moms were on the pill and my sister was on the depot shot when she had my niece.  

I know getting birth control in college was very hard for me because of the cost and the judgment. Basically it felt like the world just expected me to not have sex and if I did a child was an acceptable punishment but at the same time my body surely wanted that special time with my then husband.

I took birth control and never once got pregnant while on it. When I went off of it, pregnant both times, no oopsie about it.

It baffles me when I have people tell me they were on birth control and got pregnant, not once, but several times. All I can think is they were taking it wrong or not at all and it was easier to pretend the birth control failed and not themself.

Personally I think men should be given options for birth control as well, not just condoms. I mean we have so many options for women, why not men as well.

I think a lot of the oopsies are not 100% oops. 3 of my 4 skids are  oops + they had a miscarriage between sd17 & SS12 don't know if that was oops. It's more like irresponsible behavior. BM always forgot to take her pill. She had an abortion after DH & her divorced with some random guy. If you ask me she should have had her tubes tied.

BM "forgot to take" her BCPs resulting in the birth of SS.  Never mind that she actively told people that she planned to accidentally get pregnant...  She just didn't tell DH... Who didn't want more kids...

Because sometimes for one party... It's not an oops...

ETA:  SD10 and SD6 were both "oops." Psycho later admitted to popping holes in condoms for SD10. AND getting preggo with SD6 so that H wouldn't leave her. Soooo.....  Not so oops...

I think a number of these "oops" pregnancies are only an "oops" for one party.  And then there's irresponsibility, drug and alcohol use, stupidity, invincibility, unpreparedness, etc.

As far as I'm concerned a mistake is once. Anything more than one unplanned pregnancy is deliberate IMO. If you really really don't want children you'll figure out how to avoid that. I was always really careful until the one time I wasn't and took what I thought was a calculated risk. Guess what?! Pregnant. I terminated the pregnancy before I was even six weeks. Now I'm extremely careful. BC is not always effective even when it's taken properly. Want to know what's always effective? Tracking your cycle and abstaining during ovulation. Most people can't be bothered with that though hence the number of "accidents". 

BM apparently didn't want anymore children after the first two and since they were Catholics they didn't use protection. According to BF she wasn't good at tracking her cycle. Alrighty then. BM2 had a miscarriage (unplanned pregnancy) then proceeded to accidentally get pregnant twice more. Another one who apparently couldn't track her cycle since she didn't believe in artificial BC. In other words she's an irresponsible moron.

I took it everyday at the same time but one month I got the norovirus which they call the cruise ship virus cause it will make everyone on a cruise sick with diarrhea and vomiting . I didn't throw up my pill but my doctor said you won't absorb any of your medication when you are that sick. I wasn't having sex when I was ill but it messed up the whole month. So my second And third daughter are 17 months apart. 
 

I know lots of people whose birth control has failed including a woman whose tubes were cut, tied, and burned and three men whose vasectomies didn't last.

as they say in Jurassic Park, life finds a way

bio mums who conveniently lied to hubby or their man that they were taking birth control and because the man trusted the woman, he had sex and an oops baby comes along.

in the asian country my hubby is from, high school girls actually think only married women get pregnant. They claim they didn’t know you could get pregnant when you have started menstruating and having unprotected sex so they have alot of oopsies babies...

I LOVE planned parenthood. When I was too embarrassed and too broke, they gave me BC pills for 50$, and when I was REALLY down, it was "by donation" aka free.

Can I do an F off Friday a day early? F*** off to the IUD that failed and allowed my cousin age 32 to be born.  He is ADHD and he has been nothing but a pain in the ass at every family get together etc.  He has more than ADHD but aunt and uncle are in denial.  He is now a pedophile.  He has sexually assaulted two of my younger cousins as well as 2 other incidents we know of outside the family and is no longer allowed at family functions. WE had a death in the family this week, a 35 year old mother of 4 and he wants to go to her funeral.  I think my aunt and uncle want to use this as a way to bring the family back together.  The parents of the girls who were assaulted say NO WAY!!  The mother of the deceased doesn't want him around either. So f off to that iud that gave the world another pedpfile.  His victims were between the ages of 5 and 16.

I don't know what it is.. maybe a little "user error"  maybe some changes in effectiveness that isn't being tested ongoing?

I know my OSD supposedly got pregnant by accident.. she was supposed to be on the pill.  Now, I can absolutely see her being absent minded and missing doses.. or even forgetting to refill.

BUT.... it was a funny thing because she turned up pregnant very shortly after another friend of us got pregnant "on accident" to get her BF to marry her.  I don't put it completely out of my mind that my OSD didn't intentionally "forget"... she thought she had a catch with her BF. he owned land... had a good job.. was going to build a house.  I think that she may have seen visions of herself living in a nice new house.. "just like she deserved.

Of course BF/now DH isn't the wonderful guy she thought and they have had lots of issues.. she was very close to leaving him (for the 10th time) this past summer when she.. again.. got pregnant.. "on accident".

So.. who knows.

is it that women are "fatter" now and the dose of the hormone isn't enough? is there some other factor? is it just stupidity.. probably some of it all.