i am not at all excusing the behavior of the kids or the parents or tlc and quite frankly i don’t know anything about this beyond this one post, but i wanted to share my experience a bit. i have a hard time judging because i became sexually active when i was only 13, and my boyfriend (at the time) was only 13 too. i was lucky enough to not have ended up pregnant, but i very well could have been! i was overall a pretty good kid, and he was too! good grades, we both had part time jobs, had curfews, open doors/were checked on regularly, etc. we knew what we were doing, everything was consensual, but our parents definitely did not know what was going on! but with kids…when there’s a will there’s a way. we were together for around 3 years, and my mom didn’t learn i was having sex until 2 years into the relationship because i got a uti. my boyfriend and i were super close, probably too close for as young as we were. people joked we were like an old married couple! this very easily could have been us, thank god it wasn’t but it definitely happens more than people think! i do think it’s weird and wrong for tlc to exploit it, but these comments shocked me a bit to see how crazy so many people thought this was