Teen Pregnancy

Teen pregnancy is a very important issue that is surrounding our society and needs to be addressed and dealt within a constructive manner. There are a lot of consequences, but the most commonare the emotional effects, the physical effects and the most important, the financial effects. Some of the emotional effects include depression. They get depressed because for example, most ofthem don’t have the support of their parents, because they don’t finish their high school and neither a college degree. In these cases of pregnancy, less than 2% of the women get a college degree.Also, there are the physical effects. For example, the baby born and the mother are exposed to suffer from health problems.

can also face a lot of medical complications like prematurelabor and emotional distress. Even though there are less cases of teen pregnancy in recent times, in 2011 the United States still ranks at the number one spot in teen pregnancy cases. Teenpregnancy was much higher in the 1980s because most of the young girls got married and had children before they turned 20. This was good at all, but they were married and they had somebody that helpedher. The problem is that in the old days the majority of the teenage girls were married, but now it’s the total opposite. However, a teenage girl can become pregnant due to a variety of reasons,which include long term dating relationships, casual dating and sometimes even rape. Teenagers think that they can avoid pregnancy with birth control measures but the only way to stop teenpregnancy is refraining from all sexual activities, until you are mature enough to understand what's right and wrong. It's always recommended to gather as much information on sex education to knowmore on the consequences of teen pregnancy. There are a lot of consequences, but the most common are the emotional effects, the physical effects and the most important, the financial effects.