Being a teenager in today’s society is stressful on its own, it doesn’t help with the rising numbers in unwanted pregnancy in these young adults. Being in your teenage years you are just figuring out who you are and how to live on your own. On average three out of ten teens get pregnant before they reach the age of twenty (Thomas). Many girls and/ or couples are not mentally or physically prepared to have a child right now in their life. Unplanned pregnancy has become a problem in the United States because it leads to the rise in abortion rates. Since 1973 the U.S. alone has hosted more than 57 million abortions, last year alone was over 1.6 million. The average cost of an abortion is almost two thousand dollars, by reducing the number
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Being raised in a situation where my parents had me when they were both seventeen, and both being able to follow through with their career goals is incredible, but also very rare. Teenage mothers are more likely to drop out of school. Only about one-third of teen mothers obtain a high school diploma (Worrell). Many young adults are not prepared for this life changing event, so how do you avoid it? Teen pregnancy is an important issue for several reasons. For example, the babies born are more likely to suffer health, social, and emotional problems than to children born to older mothers. The young women having these children are at an increased risk for medical complications, such as premature birth and maternal mortality. The naive and cheap ways you are taught going through high school includes getting preached at from teachers about being abstinent. Obviously, that is not helping, because the pregnancy rates are still going up in teens. The two most heard of pregnancy prevention tactics are: condoms and birth control pills. These options work great some of the time, but they both come with their draw backs. With using condoms, it helps protect against sexually transmitted diseases but they do break about twenty percent of the time. As for the pill taking it minutes late or being on an antibiotic while on the pill will render the birth …show more content…
Surprisingly birth control pills and condoms are the least effective in preventing pregnancy, condoms are only 79 percent effective and the pills are 91 percent, again only this high when you take the pill the same time every day (Wayne).
Women have many choices when it comes to avoiding a pregnancy, but as for men they are limited to condoms and abstinence. Men play the main role in pregnancy prevention because without them there would be no fertilization. Another solution to this problem would be to offer a male birth control that would reduce the number of sperm cells. This may not seem like much in the long run but it adds up in the long run of preventing unwanted teen pregnancies.
When teens unwantedly become pregnant they are scared, many of them can’t afford to raise a child. Especially when paying for daycare, daily necessities of raising a child, and college. Not being able to raise and afford having a child is the main cause of abortions. Having public funding for family planning services that help out with paying for all these expenses show questionable mothers and/ or fathers can make raising a child is
Being raised in a situation where my parents had me when they were both seventeen, and both being able to follow through with their career goals is incredible, but also very rare. Teenage mothers are more likely to drop out of school. Only about one-third of teen mothers obtain a high school diploma (Worrell). Many young adults are not prepared for this life changing event, so how do you avoid it? Teen pregnancy is an important issue for several reasons. For example, the babies born are more likely to suffer health, social, and emotional problems than to children born to older mothers. The young women having these children are at an increased risk for medical complications, such as premature birth and maternal mortality. The naive and cheap ways you are taught going through high school includes getting preached at from teachers about being abstinent. Obviously, that is not helping, because the pregnancy rates are still going up in teens. The two most heard of pregnancy prevention tactics are: condoms and birth control pills. These options work great some of the time, but they both come with their draw backs. With using condoms, it helps protect against sexually transmitted diseases but they do break about twenty percent of the time. As for the pill taking it minutes late or being on an antibiotic while on the pill will render the birth …show more content…
Surprisingly birth control pills and condoms are the least effective in preventing pregnancy, condoms are only 79 percent effective and the pills are 91 percent, again only this high when you take the pill the same time every day (Wayne).
Women have many choices when it comes to avoiding a pregnancy, but as for men they are limited to condoms and abstinence. Men play the main role in pregnancy prevention because without them there would be no fertilization. Another solution to this problem would be to offer a male birth control that would reduce the number of sperm cells. This may not seem like much in the long run but it adds up in the long run of preventing unwanted teen pregnancies.
When teens unwantedly become pregnant they are scared, many of them can’t afford to raise a child. Especially when paying for daycare, daily necessities of raising a child, and college. Not being able to raise and afford having a child is the main cause of abortions. Having public funding for family planning services that help out with paying for all these expenses show questionable mothers and/ or fathers can make raising a child is