The Rise In Teen Pregnancy

As the years go on teens seem to be getting into all sorts of trouble. Experimenting with drugs, dealing with bullying, discovering depression. Anxiety and sex. Teenage pregnancy isn 't just a thing in a far away place. It has became a grim reality that strikes the homes of thousands. Certain factors can play a large part in the way teens handle sexual situations with another person. Things such as race, ethnicity and economics may be a reason why more girls of one side of the track may seem to be more easily influenced into unprotected sex. Yet even the most privileged of girls have became pregnant.“The United States has one of the highest teen pregnancy rates in the western industrialized world” (Do Something). The rise in teen pregnancy is caused by the misguidance and ignorance of …show more content…
Educating our transitioning youth on reproduction and how to be stronger women is the key to declining teenage pregnancy.
Every female goes through the complicated and complex time of puberty. Where things are not as clear cut as they used to be and hormones and emotions drive decisions more than logic. This is when a girl’s menstrual cycle starts up, which in turn opens up the possibility of pregnancy. The possibility is always 1 in 20. With proper guidance and education on the topic, the possibility seems as if it is a distant number. To become pregnant, intercourse has to have been taken place in a female’s fertile window. This fertile window includes the five days before ovulation and the day of ovulation. What most girls do not know is that sperm can live up to five days within the uterus. That is more than enough time to conceive. If no sperm is around to fertilize the egg, it dies off and disintegrates. The body