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Teeenage Pregnancy

 

            
             Teenage Pregnancy is a very serious issue dealt with today in our society. Thus, teenage pregnancy is a bigger deal than what people think it might be. Each year one million teenage women become pregnant (Guttmacher 3). Teenagers today are growing up in a society in which peers, TV, and music gives a message that unmarried sexual relationships are a common part to growing up as a teenager today (Chase Lansdale 8). When in fact, that is not the reality of this relationship when teenage pregnancy is still a major concern for today's society. The term, "babies having babies", is so meaningful when looking at the problems that teen pregnancy can create for the baby being born to and raised by a teenage mother. Early sex education from parents, schools, and community will help decrease the teen pregnancy rate. Teenage girls do not realize the long-term consequences of pregnancy and child bearing, they are also uninformed of health risks to themselves and their unborn child, and as a result of teenage pregnancy, the society has formed organizations to help teens.
             The United States has the highest rates of pregnancy, abortion, and childbirth among teens (Chase-Lansdale 15). 78% of pregnancies are unplanned (Guttmacher 3). Six in ten pregnancies occur in eighteen-nineteen year olds (Guttmacher .
             3). Babies born to teen mothers in the United States are at risk (Chase-Lansdale 1). Long term problems appear in many major areas of life (Chase-Lansdale 1). These problems include school failures, poverty, and physical illness (Chase-Lansdale 1). The media transmits either covert or overt messages that unmarried sexual relationships are common and acceptable behaviors (Chase-Lansdale 11).
             The consequences of adolescent pregnancy and child-bearing are serious. The number one consequence noted was that teen mothers are less likely to graduate from high school ("Better Health" 6). Teenage pregnancy has an estimated financial burden to society of $120 billion annually that is lost in tax revenues, public assistance programs and child health care (Solomen 1).


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