MORE BRAINSTORMING IDEAS ON HOW TO AVOID SUSTAINING OR CAUSING AN UNWANTED PREGNANCY:

---Ask for the full legal name and month and day of birth of your male or female dating partner,and then look up their profile through a first-rate online background-checks service such as Truthfinder.com of San Diego, California.

Feel free to ask your dating partner to please show you his or her currently-valid driver's license. If they do not have a currently-valid driver's license, or if their driver's license cites an out-of-town or out-of-state address for himself that differs from the address where he is living at that time, this could be an indication that he or she is not conscientious enough or honest enough or law-abiding enough for you. State law in your state requires each resident to have a currently valid driver's license.

In your online background-check on your dating partner or prospective dating partner, PLEASE keep this in mind: The minute you read online that he or she has a criminal record, you might think twice about whether you want to "go all the way" with that individual.

Would it be fair to subject a newborn baby to any parent who has a criminal background?

Is it fair to subject yourself to an individual who might respond to a conflict you develop with him by physically assaulting you or threatening to harm you?

Is it fair to subject yourself to the scenario of a future spouse who is someone who gets put in prison for committing a crime during the same period when you are attempting to raise the child that resulted from your "dates" together?

---Ask yourself whether you see any evidence that the gentleman or lady you are dating is exceeding the speed limit by more than 5 miles per hour in any context when he is driving you anywhere. 

Ask yourself: Would I want to get pregnant by, or father a child for, any person who cannot even drive within the speed limit? Would I want to subject a newborn child to a reckless driver who is incapable of driving within the speed limit?

--Ask yourself whether you might want to get pregnant from, or father a child for, someone whom you don't know well enough to write an accurate and concise 200-word biographical report about?
Do you, in fact, know what their own beliefs and values are, what their accomplishments have been, and what sets them apart from the other persons you have either previously dated or considered having a date with?

--Ask yourself whether you regard it as rational to impregnate someone who is "a complete stranger to you", or to get impregnated by a male person who is a "complete stranger to you".

--Ask your dating partner to please state each of his or her hobbies and pastimes. Then ask YOURSELF whether those hobbies and pastimes appeal to you as well. If not, and if your involvement with him or her could potentially result in a pregnancy, this might imply that at some future date, you will be married and raising a child with someone whose hobbies and interests are actually offensive to you. If you dislike listening to piano music, for instance, WOULD YOU WANT TO EVEN CONSIDER LIVING WITH ANYONE---REGARDLESS OF WHO THAT INDIVIDUAL IS---WHO PLAYS THE PIANO MORE THAN ONCE PER MONTH?

---Imagine yourself sitting across a dining table from that individual when each of you are in your 70s or 80s.  Are you completely sure that at age 70 or 80, you and she will be compatible conversation partners, will truly enjoy each other's company inside a restaurant or coffeehouse,  and will have lots of interests in common?

---During your first date with that gentleman or lady, ask yourself whether the charisma and physical charms they may have are accompanied by good character, straightforwardness, consistency in their factual statements about themselves and others, calmness or serenity in your presence, and an appreciative style toward yourself that goes beyond a statement from them that you yourself have "nice eyes", for instance.