Teen Pregnancy

Teen Pregnancy

Nearly thirteen percent of all births in the United States were teenage girls from the ages fifteen to nineteen. Almost one million teenagers become pregnant each year and about 485,00 give birth. In many situations the answer to keeping a relationship going is to have a good sex life. Most teen relationships are based on sex. This is one of the main reasons why teenage birth rates are so high. I am a good person to make a case for this topic because I have witnessed from a family member how difficult it is to be a teenager and also have to raise and support a child. This issue shouldn’t only matter to us teens but to our parents as well.

The babies just as well as the teenage mothers, may face long-term problems from the pregnancy. These problems include school failure, poverty, and mental or physical illness. In many situations the babies that are born to teenage mothers are at greater risk for abuse and neglect than those of a woman mother. Many teenage moms may feel like they are being ordered to take position as mother, and may take their frustration out on their child.

The main question that almost everyone is asking himself or herself is probably why are so many teenagers having children at such a young age? No matter how much research or data we collect we will never fully reach our answer. Many teenage girls feel pressure from their peers. But in other cases, many teen girls may feel as if they don’t receive attention in their lives, and by having sex they use their bodies as attention objects. You think that nothing will happen to you until one day, it is you in the hospital delivering the baby.

Parents now days aren’t as smart as they used to be in sex Ed. Most parents are afraid to speak to their...

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...oming through all this a stronger, better person they end up as a statistic. And being a statistic doesn’t allow you to become the strong, independent person you were born to be. It doesn’t allow you to meet your potential and it most definitely doesn’t allow you to be the best parent you can be.”

In conclusion, I feel as if once you do become mature you can make your own decisions whether they are good or bad ones. Personally I am not against teen pregnancy, but I am definitely not for it, if the couple decides to experiment that far it is their own problem, they just need to be prepared if a baby does end up occurring. Although if and when teenage sexual interaction finally does end, many more people will end up going to college, having families, and not get stuck in poverty. This will not only be better for their lives but for their children’s lives as well.