Comm 105 - Teen Pregnancy

Comm/105

Malaika McClendon

NW09- 1YR12

February 23, 2010

Teen pregnancy has been around for many century's. Times have now changed and it has turned into a crisis. In the present time a teenager does not understand the responsibility's in raising or caring for a child. Many don't comprehend that life stops as they know it, most will not even graduate from High School. Many still overcome the odds and graduate then go off to college. Teen pregnancy has taken a different approach. Instead of being a happy moment and wonderful, it is scary, depressing, and terrifying. Educating teenagers about safe sex and abstinence will place the necessary information in this generation.

Century's ago teen pregnancy was not uncommon, young lady's where betroth to men when she was a young child. As she grew up over the years, she was taught the responsibilities of being a wife then a mother. Knowing this man would provide for her and their children when they had them set comfort in her life. Presently it has become a very big crisis in a article from Health Community.com is states the teen pregnancy rate has increased for two years in a row from 2006- 2008 to more than 42 out of 1000. Still teenage pregnancy remains high and approximately 1 million teenage girls become pregnant in the Unitied States. About 13% of U.S births involve teen mothers and about 25% of the teenage girls who give birth have another baby within 2 years.

Teenage births are associated with lower annual income for the mother. Resulting in the mother relying on government assistance and other government aid. Teenage mothers are more likely to drop out of school and not receiving a high school diploma. Teen mothers are then face to face with a cycle that may not be broken and passed on to their children. Teenage men that have children result in a life of drinking, drug use and other substance abuse. Many of the teenagers that have children don't experience the joys that other teenagers have. Missing out on prom going to the mall or just hanging out with friends is something they put on hold from choices that he or she made. Studies show many teen parents don't make it to college. Some cannot afford it and many just don't make it.

Having a baby when you are a teenager versus having a baby as an adult is not the same. Many don't even tell their parents they are curious about having sex. Some teenagers may not have the parents to speak t about sex. But when you are a teenager that is pregnant, don't walk around announcing she is pregnant. Parents may not find out their child is pregnant until it is too late. A lot of teenagers in this situation decide to give the baby up for adoption. Majority of the parents