As the decades progressed women were introduced to rights as an individual and to make your own choices and we were evolving into independent women with our own thoughts and opinions. While we were doing this our daughters were still getting pregnant. We made the transition from the bedroom into the boardroom as CEO’s and Presidents, etc... and we were able to stand on our own. We matured into people that handled their own affairs and even made choices to have them. Yet our daughters were still getting pregnant.

Women have been in space, we are race car drivers, we are now ahead of men in terms of attending college, we have broken through most of the old boy networks and we have accomplished more in the past several decades, yet our daughters are still getting pregnant.

There has got to be something wrong with this picture when you consider all the advances women have made. All the opportunit

A study by teenpregnancy.org indicates that a typical profile of teenage girls who become pregnant include: bring poor or a disinterested student, having low self-esteem, lacking basic skills, they come from dysfunctional families and/or have been sexually abused. With all of these life experiences against her anything a young girl can do to build her self esteem she will try it.

Adults are finding solutions to the self-esteem problem which triggers most teen pregnancies by learning how to raise the level of young girls self esteem. They are attending workshops and seminars, more exposure is being given to abstinence and they are being taught how to use contraceptives instead of just telling them to use them or be careful. Churches have even stepped up and recognized there is a growing need for more youth development in church.

Feeling insecure, lonely and frustrated.

Does he love me or even care about me?

Many programs that provide services to adolescent girls, their babies, and the baby's father, neglect to include other members of both adolescent's family. Services provided to the teenage parent are often spotty, or provided by multiple agencies making it difficult for the adolescent to make good use of them. Much of the research into teen pregnancy has addressed the consequences of adolescent childbearing, and there has been some work in the area of causes, but little has been done in the area of public policy.

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