Pros And Cons: Advantages And Disadvantages Of Early Pregnancy

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Register to read the introduction… * Only 40% of teen mothers graduate from high school, compared to 75% of female teens of similar socioeconomic status who are not mothers * Pregnant women under age twenty-one "who had abortions had higher levels of subsequent educational achievement than those who became pregnant but did not have abortions” * Poverty is usually a life consequence of teen pregnancy * Children of teenage mothers frequently have lower birth weights, increasing the risk of infant death, blindness, deafness, chronic respiratory problems, mental retardation, mental illness, and cerebral palsy. * Children of teen mothers are more likely to be abused and neglected and to perform poorly in school. * The …show more content…
Happiness, enjoyment of school and ambition can all help to delay early parenthood. The available research evidence also points both to day care and to education and career development programmes as promising ways of supporting young parents. Teenagers prefers to risk their future just to get an complete attention and acceptance from the people around them without thinking the consequence of their wrong actions that teenagers aims to experience one day happiness and the result will last for a

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