Teen Pregnancy and Birth Control Essay

prevent pregnancy. What is hard to understand is why the parents think that if you teach them that how to use birth control, it encourages teens to have sex. That is completely wrong to educate is not to encourage. Sure, abstaining is one way to prevent having a child, but there are so many other ways to prevent it. There are so many different types of birth control…

Do you agree with teens having birth control rather its condoms, the pill, the shot, etc.? I believe we as parents and society should encourage teen birth control because it has so many benefits that come with it such as not getting impregnated or catching a STD/STI. Many don’t agree with them having birth control because of teen irresponsibility’s and health issues. On one hand, statistics show that it is more common for teens to start using birth control at age 16, but statistics also show…

Birth Control Availability “American teenagers become pregnant at a rate of about one a minute” (Kristof 1). Birth control availability has been a topic of controversy for many years due to the fact that there are many different people who have different viewpoints on it.Whether some of these people like or do not like the idea of distributing birth control, it is still an issue that many women are being forced to deal with. Birth control is handled differently in different places, and…

known that many teens in America are sexually active. There are numerous forms of birth control, temporary and long term. The birth control that needs to have a deeper look into is the birth control pill. Although female contraception lowers teen pregnancy rates, teens under the age of 18 shouldn’t be having sex that often to where they need a stronger, more long term form of birth control.…

viewpoints about birth control, the woman’s right to make choices about her body and about planning her family should be reserved by each individual woman. The choices available to women to protect themselves against unplanned parenthood have and will continue to expand. If a woman chooses to be active sexually she should take personal precautions instead of relying soling on their partner. Many societal and personal issues such as sexually active women with unplanned pregnancies,…

Another reason teens have sex can be due to pressure from their surroundings. In a study conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation, 48% of teens ages 12-17 reported they felt “a lot” of pressure to take part in sexual intercourse and/or do sexual acts. This pressure can come from a number of sources, but the biggest perpetrators are their fellow peers and the media. Mostly it is young men who feel a large pressure from their friends to have sex. While 23% of girls said they feel pressure to have…

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…

the past 100 years, birth control devices have been one of the more significant. Some common birth control devices are male and female condoms and the birth control pill. Both of these devices protect against pregnancy and the male and female condoms protect against sexually transmitted diseases (STD) and HIV. This arouses the question should teenagers be allowed to obtain these devices without parental consent. The answer is yes. Teenagers should be able to obtain birth control devices without…

Surprisingly, teen pregnancy rates have dropped over the years. Between 2007 and 2012, one-third the rate in the mid-2000s dropped. According to the Center of Disease Control and Prevention, there was a six percent decrease from 2011 to 2012. I was not surprised to find in my search that teen minorities have always had higher birth rates than white teens. African Americans have the greater decline compared to the white. African-American girls ages 15-19 had a pregnancy rate 60% higher than their…

Comprehensive teen teen p[areparenting programs in South Carolina were a result of the public concern for the disproportionate number of teen pregnancies in the state during the 1980s (South Carolina Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, 2011). When teen pregnancy numbers declined in the 1990s, South Carolina’s teen pregnancies continued to be higher than the national average. According to The Alan Guttmacher Institute (2004), in the 1990s 56% of teens in South Carolina confessed to having…