No questions but a 2am thought

I think it's because 19 is just legal age. If you got pregnant at that age that means you had s@x before turning 18 probably with some adult or same age guy. Being mother at age 19 when you can't support yourself and you bringing another life to world. Like 19 is still a teen. So, If life is a race you just started to walk. In that sense she is young. But if she befriend any younger person with considerable age gap then it means in life race the other person is crawling and you walking. For a better family to function same pace is needed. I hope you understand my point.

isn't it just a perception of maturity idk like most people will assume one cannot be mature enough to handle pregnancy at 19 and like you said they believe you aren't fully developed yet and the issue with being friends with a 16 or 17 year old could be the maturity gap between those ages that could maybe have a weird power imbalance or something depending on cultures..(I personally have never heard people criticising for being friends with slightly younger people though) but yeah idk if I would call that double standards? Because it's just a difference in context (sorry my thoughts on this are gonna sound super scrambled I'm sleep deprived and its 4am and i'm just rambling) it's somewhat contradictory yeah but not double standard also people are gonna have smth to say no matter what the scenario is that's just the way things are most probably don't even think that deep into it which is why so many people say hypocritical things

Pregnancy only takes 9 months.. Not more than a year so I don’t get the “ If you got pregnant at that age that means you had s@x before turning 18”

She could have sex during 18 years old but then that in itself is considered legally an adult

You don't have to take everything to a literal sense. What I mean was 18 is legal concent age. People argue over may be she had relationship before 18 or maybe she got pregnant in one time. Girls can get pregnant from the moment they got their period but it doesn't mean to get pregnant. Pregnancy is huge decision. Parents can choose not to have children but children can't choose to be born or not. 19 is legal age but step like Pregnancy should be taken by considering financial independence.

I understand what you are trying to say, I was just confused to why you suddenly came into the conclusion that the girl was having sex before they were 18 with an older guy at that.

Also, I don’t think we’re in the position to say someone should and should not get pregnant by the time they are 18 ‘cause
1. We don’t know their cultures
2. How are we totally, totally, totally, sure that it is not planned?

There’s a wonderful video about teenage moms pn youtube and one of them is a 19 year old girl who actually planned their pregnancy. Just because we are not financially independent by 19, doesn’t mean no one else is. Maybe they were raised that way or maybe they are actually capable of complete independence unlike us.

Keeping privilege aside. That is an exception. Idk about culture thing as I belong to country where child marriage was a "part of culture". Some people strongly believe in it but most of the people and govt Made it illegal. Some consider it as a culture but most of the people call it evil custom.

easy, your body isn't fully developed to promote the creation of a child when you're 19.
When a 19 year old talks to a 15 year old, the 15 year old and 19 year old's brain has a difference in development as well as experience. The 15 year old hasn't seen the world enough to know that dating a 19 year old is not a good decision, they don't know that the 19 year old's brain is capable of taking advantage or grooming them, but the 19 year old knows that, hence they're not supposed to date someone that is so easy to be taken advantage of.
There's no double standards.

19... is not... a child...