Essay On Normative Social Influence Of Teenage Pregnancy

Teenage pregnancy can come from teens wanting to fit in with each other or do things just so that they will belong, which can be known as normative social influence. As a teenager I know it is not easy to be around a group of friends who are all doing things that make you feel uncomfortable or like the outsider of the group, so we will try to do anything just to be apart of it, including having sex. All it takes is one time to have unprotected sex, which can make a girl come up pregnant. peer pressure is common amongst teenagers and can be a very risky or even deadly issue to have to deal with. girls or guys can easily try to persuade another female to have sex just because they are, a girl might even persuade her friend to have sex just so she won 't feel alone by having sex herself. It is also not common for the victim to fall for the shenanigans not thinking of what the outcome could be. it 's all fun and games until the girl ends up pregnant and has to explain what happened to her parents. …show more content…
Some girls aren 't raised thinking that it is okay to have sex at a young age, they may have been told to wait until marriage or when they are old enough. hanging around people who could care less about marriage, or till they are old enough will make the girl who does care start to change her mind just so she will be accepted into their group. No teenage girl want to be considered the “party pooper” in the group so she do what she have to , to please others. If her friends are all having sex 9 times out of 10 she will follow along no matter how uncomfortable it may be for her. this doesn 't make her a bad person , she just isn 't making the right decisions at the time or decisions that she know is