teen pregnancy

One of the quote states that, “Teenage years are already feel like you're being judged by everyone, add a big belly and it all gets worse.’’ As it is rightly said that, new life brings the new memories and beginnings to the lives of those involved with the child itself, and although there has never been a sight more joyous and exciting than when a mother holds her own child for the very first time,but we can’t neglect that there is still a proper time and state for pregnancies to happen. Teenage pregnancy surely disrupts and plays the havoc with the celebration and values of the existing of life, both for the child and those other people around the child. The experiences of severe despondency and dejection, typically felt over a period of time and accompanied by feelings of hopelessness and inadequacy and mental health problems, the majorly lack of father figures, and the high rate of poverty and lack of products and services often connected to children in homes run by teenage mothers put them at serious disadvantages when compared to children raised in nuclear families. Most of the pregnancies occurring among teen girls leave them destitute and impecunious, alone and for most part unaccepted by anyone else.

Intellectually, the teenage girls going through pregnancies have yet to reach the maturity level to raise their child and support a family. This is proven fact by the organization of adolescents that the teenages have engaged in unsafe sex, which is the cause of their teenage pregnancy. In addition, the majority of these girls are also unemployed and sometimes are unable to work legally due to international child labor laws (Cherry, Dillon, & Rugh, 2001). So, not only is the mother itself is mentally unready for the mother...

... middle of paper ...

... a father.’’ It can be absolutely said that the child is considered to be lucky enough, if the father is present in his or her life. In fact, It has been noted by “The National Campaign’’ that,”in the United States, eight out of ten teenage fathers do not marry their first child’s mother. But we can go further in details about society as a whole! Not that long ago the article named ‘‘Park’’ stated that, “there has been a surge of content in media about the teenage pregnancy in shows broadcasted internationally such as Degrassi, One Tree Hill Junior High, Gilmore Girls, The secret life of the American Teenager, Sixteen and Pregnant and the most famous of all was The Teen Mom. While it may be in a favor of the spreading positive information to make teenagers aware of the consequences and effects of premarital sex and the pregnancy in human females under the age to 20.