As a young teenage girl, she shamelessly had to face her mother and give her the news of her pregnancy. Suffered through the cold look of society upon her during New York City’s winter and made her way through graduating high-school and working at a part-time job above the straining pains of pregnancy. As her experience as a teenage mother she spoke of the lack of respect and support she received from society and above all, lack of education the should be implemented to teach about the teenage years and stop the ongoing problem of teenage pregnancy and make an eye-opening impact on the parents as well. In her article “ I Was a Teenage Mother”, Gloria Malone, sees the need to tell her story to people so that they can realize how crucial education is a solution to this issue in the society among poverty. She questions the comprehensive programs that should have been growing much sooner than they are now. They could untangle the issues stemming from poverty. Teenage pregnancy is one of the most common social issues associated with poverty and lack of parental education about sex or the child’s crucial teenage years and their growth. Comprehensive programs are also responsible for educating parents about their children’s psychological and behavioral undulations during teenage years and how as teenagers they develop thoughts, and behaviors, which will heavily impact their lives and really impose, inevitable situations like a teenage pregnancy. She reached out to her audience, well many audiences, by walking us through her experience as a daughter, a citizen of NYC, a
