Teen Pregnancy
...is the inability to make right decisions when it comes to certain situations. One of the most common situations teens find themselves in is becoming a parent at a young age, a result of pressure to have sex from peers. Over the years, the numbers of teen pregnancy have indeed decreased, but in the United States alone, teen pregnancies are at an all time high. A recent study conducted by Victor C. Strasburger, a doctor at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, concluded that of the teen pregnancies, 95% of them are unplanned, and only a third of the pregnancies end with the mother keeping the child. With statistics like these, the common person is left to wonder. Why isn’t enough being done to prevent this problem? And what is being done to ensure a suitable life for the teens and the children born to them? With the numbers of teens becoming parents each year, the government has addressed the problem by creating organizations that make the life of a teenage parent no different than that of an average teenager. By doing this, the government is doing nothing to put a stop to the problem, but is encouraging it by saying “Hey you can have a kid and your life won‘t change one bit”. Ask yourself this: If teenagers had an actual perspective of the day to day struggles of any parent, would they be doing something to prevent themselves from ending up in that situation? In my opinion, more should be being done to prevent teen pregnancy, rather than putting all the efforts into helping teen parents.
Teenagers are very easily influenced and known to do what everyone else is doing because it’s the “in“ thing. The years of their life that are most crucial for development, are being altered by idols and celebrities who do not always provide a positive influence to be followed. Over the years, with teen pregnancy being on the rise, I feel that one of the major factors...
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