Teenage Pregnancy

Teenage Pregnancy is one of the most alarming issues in our world today. Many teenagers engage themselves in sexual intercourse with their partners just to be considered part of a pack of girls usually there age or older. In this society we do not expect or see it as anything close to normal when out of a school of a thousand 30% of female students ranging in age from 11-16 are already sexually active or are already mothers.

Although in some countries it is more than expected it's celebrated. The earlier a "little girl" can conceive her first pregnancy, is a clear sign of fertility. But moderately, a teenage girl being pregnant before adulthood is critically looked down upon with shame. In 2009, around 410,000 teenage girls, ages 15 to 19, gave birth in the United States, and shockingly, that's a 37 percent decrease from the teen birth rate in1991. Most people would like to break it down into an easy statistic placing the blame anywhere but where it truly belongs somewhat like this, "basically, teenage pregnancy occurs due to the following reasons: general rebelliousness, peer pressure, and lack of self-esteem". Never mind the question about where the parents of these boys and girls are. Yes girls and boys because one can't do it without the others participation.

It is statements like this one that gives young people the excuses already handed to them in a nice neat bow. "First, there is the rebelliousness of parents and of rules of adults". During the teenage stage there is a burst of sudden and unknown emotions. Teens feel a natural sense of rebelling against the set norms and rules. Coupled with a sudden sense of fresh-found liberation and sexuality, results in giving vent to their feelings through sexual experiences.

Now the second main reason that we are told is to blame is, peer pressure. This pressure causes sexual intimacy for the opposite sex. If a child hangs out with a group who is sexually active, then nine out of ten times that child will surely become sexually active too. Most teenagers opt to have sexual intercourse because they need to achieve the acceptance given by the "circle of friends". The only way to be accepted is to have relationship with the opposite sex. This kind of behavior will most definitely lead to unwanted teenage pregnancies.

Anyone any time can throw out causes for why something like this might happen. But I think it's the effect that these kids are unable to fully understand until they themselves are standing there 14 yrs. old with a baby to raise no one who's going help them and no way in the world to begin to know who to care for or take care of their self, much less how there are going to take care of or care for this innocent baby. Who never asked to be brought into this situation in the first place?

The fact that I was a teen mom I feel I have the insight to speak on this subject. I know that there is