I was just wondering about teen pregnancy in high school. I am currently a senior and the amount of pregnant girls has more than tripled since my freshman year! You can not go down our halls with seeing manyyy pregnant girls! And some of them are freshman! I just can not believe how much has changed at my school. Do you think this is because more girls are deciding to have the baby instead of an abortion or girls are being more irresponsible than ever?
I have no idea what is happening with teens anymore! I am not against premarital sex, but I think girls should be more responsible. I am tired of hearing about girls having sex with random guys! And then a couple months later they are pregnant!!!! Why is this happening?
But I do have to say one thing about these girls. Although they have made bad decisions, I am happy to see so many of these girls keeping their babies. There are popular and non- popular girls getting pregnant and I really have respect for their decision to go through with their pregnancy. Because it leaves me wondering if I would do the same thing.
I have always been against abortion, but as I grow older, these views seem to change a bit.
Do they have abstinence only education at your school? And do you know how close the nearest free clinic is where people can get free or low cost condoms or birth control? Do you know how close the nearest abortion clinic is?
All of the above are factors that are probably contributing to the number of teen pregnancies at your school.
As far as being happy that those girls are keeping their babies, they probably won't finish high school and if they do they probably won't go to college. They are way more likely to be poor. And I'd bet their babies will grow up without their fathers being involved with their lives. Yeah, you should be really happy for them.
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There is no reason for you to bash her happiness for these girls keeping their babies. You have no idea what will become of these women or who will be in their lives, so you can start judging these girls and the one who wrote the blog as soon as you are brave enough to judge yourself.
If you continue to call me names I will flag your comment because personally attacking me breaks the site's Terms of Service. So please keep to the topic and leave the personal insults to yourself.
I have stats to back up what I predicting in my comment.
"Teen mothers are less likely to complete school and more likely to be single parents. Less than one-third of teens who begin their families before age 18 ever earn a high school diploma. Only 1.5% earn a college degree by the age of 30."
"A 1990 study showed that almost one-half of all teenage mothers and over three-quarters of unmarried teen mothers began receiving welfare within five years of the birth of their first child"
"Children of teens are 50 percent more likely to repeat a grade; they perform much worse on standardized tests; and ultimately they are less likely to complete high school than if their mothers had delayed childbearing."
All these statistics can be found here http://www.teenpregnancy.org/whycare/sowhat.asp
as well as statstics showing how it is much more common for pregnant teens to experience serious health problems during pregnancy and how their babies are much more likely to be born with serious health problems.
So, statistically speaking, it's way likely that a teenage mom and her baby are going to have a pretty sucky life ahead of them.
So that's why comprehensive sex education and affordable birth control is so important. It lowers teen pregnancy rates and helps for proper family planning for adults. I'm twenty and I don't want to be pregnant until I'm married, have a steady job with health insurance, and enough money saved to support my new baby.
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he's not judging anyone. He's stating facts.
82% of teen pregnancies in the US are unplanned. Only 1/3 pregnant teens actually complete high school, and they are less likely than their peers to go on to college.
80% of teen mothers end up on welfare.
Babies born to teen mothers have lower birth weights, are more likely to have poor performance in school later, and are at a greater risk of abuse and neglect.
The sons of teen mothers are 13 percent more likely to end up in prison while teen daughters are 22 percent more likely to become teen mothers themselves.
Guttmacher Institute
Consequences of Teen Pregnancy
http://www.familyfirstaid.org/teen-pregnancy.html
Pointing out the truth doesn't make someone an ass. Referring to them as such is somewhat insulting.
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and for esuffern.. Yes we have abstinence only education at our school... and we have since we were in 6th grade. Our nearest free clinic is located right next to the college and everyone knows that because the women come in a few times a year to speak and talk to us about the place. And our abortion clinic is located not far from that.. so no these do not contribute as much as you might think.
And many of these girls are giving them up for adoption. I never said they would be happy with their lives, I am just glad they had enough courage to be mad fun of and go through something so hard at such a young age. I know that it was their consequence, but I am happy that they did not take the easy way out!
Who says choosing to have an abortion is easy? I don't think any woman takes ending a pregnancy lightly.
Abstinence only education is probably the main factor contributing to the high teen pregnancy rates at your school. It's proven that it doesn't reduce teen pregnancy rates, but actually increases them.
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I've commented about this before - it's kind of a sensitive topic for me. I have a really hard time with this idea of just putting kids up for adoption. Obviously there needs to be a foster care system. However, if a woman (and a man, if that's the case) are pregnant, and they know from the beginning that they are going to put the baby up for adoption, why have the baby? Why allow them to live that kind of miserable life? I have a friend who is adopted, who has been raised by the same people for her whole life, and she still has a hard time talking about it. I can't even imagine the scars that orphanages and foster homes leave on people. If they want to keep the baby, keep they baby. But if they don't want to keep it, then perhaps abortion is really the better choice for the sake of the unborn child, not to mention society and our future. Not that abortion is the answer to overpopulation, but I don't think that filling our orphanages with children that birth parents don't want is necessarily the answer to an unwanted pregnancy...
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Well you have to understand that I am pro-choice. Because as I was saying, I am not sure if I could make a decision like that. And I do understand your side of this.
And I think if people want to have sex they will do it no matter what. It is just so frustrating watching these little girls, which is basically what they are, get pregnant. I just wish something could be done! And it seems like every time people try to help, things always get worse!
I really appreciate you clarifying your position. I'd like to know what you mean by "it seems like every time people try to help, things always get worse"?
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Well as parents of teenagers, they try to make them avoid anything that has to do with sex, but obviously that is not going to work. Then like you said, the education makes them more likely. Honestly, with me, it never mattered what they said, as in my parents or teachers. They were not making me change my mind about sex. I guess this is because I never plan on having random sex or sex with someone I have only been dating for a couple months. What I am trying to say is that they always focus on diseases and then pregnancy. In my mind, neither of those would happen.
Ok sorry back to what I was saying before... It is basically like anyone who joins in to help stop these pregnancies, only contributes to them. I feel like the education we have received might have been taken wrong because no one even thinks bad things will happen to them.
Teaching abstinence-only contributes to unsafe sex and higher teen pregnancy rates, but comprehensive sex education that teaches about contraception and about healthy relationships, reduces pregnancy rates and actually postpones the average age that teenagers first have sex. So, I'm all for comprehensive sex ed. It's the best way to cultivate healthy sexuality and prevent spreading STDs and having unplanned pregnancies.
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