Being A Teen Mom

It was dark in that old abandon warehouse, where we met every day after school. It smelled like mildew and on that occasion it smelled like gunpowder. Things started to get out of hand, one thing after another, and Drew was on the ground bleeding as blood started to fill that warehouse floor. I heard the piercing sounds of the sirens gaining closer and closer to us every passing second. All the gang members scattered as they got in their cars and left Drew dead on the ground and me standing, without anywhere to go. All I ever wanted was to feel like I belonged, but all I was given was a 2 year sentence to jail and addiction to various drugs. This story represents the majority of teens. They just want to feel apart of something but their cities …show more content…
Ohio was ranked 23 out of 51 states of having the highest number of babies born to teens (“Ohio adolescent reproductive health facts,” 2014). Many teens become pregnant because there is a lack of activities to keep them involved in, and not enough programs expressing the realities of being a teen mom. There will always be teen pregnancies, but there are many ways to help limit the amount of teen pregnancies. One solution is to create more programs about pregnancies and safe sex. There needs to be many more programs that show and explain how hard it really is being a teen mom and how this will affect them for the rest of their lives. Having programs that show the reality of teen pregnancies will help teens to not glamorize being pregnant and help them understand the hardships of being pregnant. There also needs to be programs that talk about safe sex instead of strictly abstinence. If safe sex was taught instead of just abstinence more teens would consider being on birth control and so forth. These programs would help limit the amount of teen pregnancies. Unlike programs, activity centers would actually give the teen some place to go. These activity centers would provide some place for teens to hang out together with lots of cool activities and adult supervision instead of just going to each others houses every day. Also, activity centers are different than programs because teens can connect with others over the same problems and seek advice from their peers. Although activity centers have many differences, they also have similarities. Activity centers and programs both help the teen to think more about the realities of being a teen mom. They also both help them feel like they belong and help them realize they are not alone. Programs and activity centers will help with the lack of activities there are for teens and help limit the amount of teen