Why does teenage pregnancy still exist?

Is it because guys feel that it is a way of manhood? Or does girls feel that it is their part to be pregnant?Why does teenage pregnancy still exist?
Because teenagers have sex and they dont realize the ';big picture'; of parenthood until they are in the middle of it. They don't see that after there is a cute little baby there is going to be a child needing to be raised. It's harder to see the long run when you're a child yourself.Why does teenage pregnancy still exist?
Because teenagers have that out of sight out of mind way of thinking. They also think bad things only happen to everyone else. They live in the moment not by the future...at least most of them.


Of course there are a few that really do use protection and accidents happen
idk why you ask why it STILL exists, because it exists now more than ever. and it always will exist. everyone likes sex...unfortunately that includes teens. i think more and more teens are having sex to early because lets face it, sex is glorified in todays society...look everywhere around you...i dare you to find a movie (besides childrens movies) that dont have at least one sexual reference in it!! sex is everywhere!!
neither. its because kids like having sex and are dumb enough to think they won't get pregnant.
It's sad that, in a modern, industrialized society such as ours, that this kind of thing is still going on!





The media is increasingly glamorizing pregnancy among impressionable teenagers:





Movies like Juno are legitimatizing ';kids having kids';. Instead of abortion or adopting it away after birth, that film justifies keeping the child.





Musicians such as Jamie Lynn Spears are having children at age sixteen...and the newspapers and magazines are glorifying it!





Movie stars and entertainers are having kids right and left, willy-nilly; this behavior is covered by television and portrayed as beautiful, normal AND without consequences.





Sarah Palin, a state governor, and in the running for Vice President of the United States...her (unmarried) seventeen year-old daughter had a child with her boyfriend.





Democrats and Republicans are bickering about which type of sex-education programs are ';morally right';. The fighting needs to stop...whatever abstinence or normal sex-ed is the best way. Stop bi*ching and focus on teen pregnancy in some way.





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Sometimes, it's the result of teens being ignorant...though I think that most girls understand that if you have unprotected sex, you very well might get pregnant.





Sometimes it's some kind of macho thing on the part of the guy, or a cultural issue among certain ethnic groups. Or even a religious issue, as some ultra-right-wing Christians encourage early pregnancy.





Sometimes it's girls feeling that their life is worthless if they don't become pregnant, that being a mother is their only purpose in life, or the ';highest calling a woman can have';. Or some (usually low-income) girls feel that only a child will justify their existence.





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Pregnancy should not be a fashion statement.


It shouldn't be some teen right-of-passage.


It shouldn't be a decision made by hormone-driven teenage girls....or guys.


The media should do the responsible thing and advocate teenage pregnancy PREVENTION, not justify it.


Schools should make aware to kids that teenage pregnancy is no way to live life, and is very irresponsible and reckless.


Parents should quit ignoring this issue, and have a serious discussion with their sons and daughters.





Girls...wait till you get a little older to make a **LIFE CHANGING** choice like this. Finish high school...get a job...go to college...live a little.


Guys...keep your d**k in your pants...and be a MAN; if you *really* love your girl, try to get her to succeed in life, not simply be a baby-making machine.


Both...use a condom, or other birth control method.





Everyone (including politicians)...research this increasingly rampant problem in society...advocate responsible choices regarding parenthood among teens.
its in our genes. way back when that was the normal. we got married at what now is a early age cause we died at a very early age. and as everyone knows the more you tell someone no not to do something. the more that they will wanna do it.
because teens are uneducated or just don't care about what happens after sex. it will never go away. decrease maybe but it's here for ever
Teen pregnancy will never cease to exsist. It's not a illness it's a choice.
Because we are all human!!! No one is perfect. Things happen for a reason get over it
because 14 year old kids think it's cool to say '; it was my choice to get pregnant';.





Seriously, I can understand an accident and kudos to them for doing the right thing, but kids that do it on purpose are just stupid.





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Sometimes people get caught in the moment or girls don't voice out for the guy to put on a condom. Or birth control is misused
ok i'm 16 and i'm pregnant and from my story i think you'll be a little more lenient on the situation


i was with this guy for 2 years and he all of a sudden started tlaking about sex like all the time and i was not ready and i always believe in waiting till mairrage. soon he was practically stripping me and pushed me down on the bed and yeah now i'm pregnant


there are some couples that want to have babies just because they think they're ready and in no way am i telling you this story to make you feel bad for the girls that do get pregnant because yes, it takes two to make a baby but there are some lovely girls who just cannot get away from a situation fast enough and sometimes it's the other way around.


i wouldn't judge teenage pregnancy till you hear their side of the story. it made a difference in how i thought about it when i now have a baby growing inside of me.
As long as teenagers have sex and think it will never happen to them it will always exist.
I'lll state as many reasons as I can...





1. Teens are sex-hungry


2. Some teens think it's cool now. Idiots.


3. Unconditional love, puppy's not enough anymore.


4. Drunk knocked up teens


5. Adolescence make obsessions, some are to be a mom.


6. Jamie Lynn, Jessica Alba, Britney Spears, Nichole Richie etc.
Why are people still asking stupid questions like this one?


attention seeker
It exists because teenagers who might be physically ready to have sex don't think of the actual consequences of having unprotected sex. It's the ';it won't happen to me'; syndrome. I also blame poor parenting and even a lack of sex education. Our society glorifies sex in music, video, television, commercials, clothing advertisements (i.e. abercrombie %26amp; fitch, hollister).
teenage pregnancy will always exist
Most times the guy says I love you, to get the girl to have sex. So they use the emotion on her to get the physical he wants. But he isn't usually smart enough to think about protection because he's thinking about getting laid. And she has no idea when she ovulates and all of that stuff, so she gets pregnant. Nor is she smart enough to think about protection either because most times, they think they can't get pregnant the 1st time or really ever.
its because teenagers have sex.


sex=pregnancy.
mostly it's kids thinking that nothing like that would happen to them so they are not careful enough. Some girls think that it will fix their relationships and sometimes it's an accident because birthcontrol is not 100% effective.
Many reasons. Poor women can go on welfare, but only if they are single mothers. There is also a stigma to sex in the US that goes back to Puritan times. Parents feel awkward about discussing sex with their children so they wind up doing a trial by error form of self education.


We need more sex ed programs in the schools. Children need to be aware of how they can control their own bodies before their own hormones over take them with curiosity. Parents must be more mindful and watchful of their children. The whole latch kid syndrome with kids left with no parental supervision is an accident waiting to happen. All that free time between 3pm and 7pm without parents or adult guardians is not good for kids.


In the future, schools will be open later into the evening when working parents can pick them up and will run throughout the summer all year long. Summer time is also a bad time for kids to get into trouble. Children need discipline and constructive activities to keep them busy. They also need to be educated as to how their reproductive organs work and how to use contraceptives and birth control. There are millions of abortions and unwanted teen pregnancies that would have been prevented with sex education and parental guidance.
its always gonna happen...its happen since the beginning...why is it just a big deal? its that persons life and that persons business...not yours or mine
What do you think it will just go away. People like sex!
it's because they are not being properly educated about sex and the consequences that come with it.
My little brothers gf got pregnant on purpose at 15, because he cheated on her with a 16 year old who had his baby. She got jealous and was afraid my brother would leave her so she lied about taking birth control and got pregnant. She had his 2nd kid, and 11 months later she gave birth to his 3rd kid.





She thought it was going to be like playing house. I hate it for their babies who are having to grow up in poverty. Mom quit high school and so did dad. Mom has never had a job because she has been pregnant since 15. It is sad, and I feel so bad for those babies.