Why are there so many teenage girls getting pregnant?

At my school, 15% of the girls are knocked up. At the Junior High, 20% of the girls are knocked up. WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?!!!??!!Why are there so many teenage girls getting pregnant?
It is a fact that 90% of teenage girls want to get pregnant.Why are there so many teenage girls getting pregnant?
Because they are taught just not to do it with ';abstinence only'; education.





Read some of the questions here from teenagers. They have NO IDEA about contraceptives. They believe what they ';hear'; from their friends.





Actually, the policy put into effect by the Bush administration is that public schools lost their funding if they taught about contraceptives.





So for the last 8 years, we have been teaching abstinence only sex education. And the teen pregnancy rate has risen for the first time in 15 years.





Abstinence only education does not work. Teenagers have sex. They need to know about contraceptives.





I read something somewhere that teaching abstinence only is like teaching kids to NEVER cross the street and then expecting them to know to look both ways ';somehow';. If we don't teach them, they don't know. It's as simple as that.
I honestly think that girls are just not told what the consequences of having unprotected sex are. As you can see from lots of posts on here, many guys and girls don't even know what it takes to get pregnant. They're asking questions like, ';Can dry humping with my boyfriend with only underwear make me get pregnant';. WTF? I think parents need to sit down with their children and have a serious talk. I have a little girl and dread having to have that discussion with her, but I want her to know the facts. I really want her to wait, but I do want her to know that if she wants to have sex, there are safe ways to do it.
It's because they teach safe sex and hand out condoms in schools now. Back when they DIDN'T teach safe sex the pregnancy and STD rates were actually lower. Oh...and the media almost glorifies teen parents. When you teach kids it's okay to have sex all the time it starts a snowball effect. Sure most of them start out using condoms. But then they get lazy and once turns into several times. Several times turns into either an STD or a baby. I know of a girl who this happened to except she ended up with HIV. Her and her family were all for teaching safe sex...until safe sex turned into unsafe sex. She now regrets ever having sex in the first place. Had she waited until she was married she wouldn't be dying of AIDS now and leaving a little boy here.





As old fashioned as it sounds there is a reason that people wait until they're married. Does that make you cool in high school? Maybe, maybe not. But one thing you won't have is an STD and a handful of regrets about having meaningless sex with several partners.





Think before you act, it very well could save your life.
I dont know the american school system, so i dont know how old these girls are your talking about, but i'm guessing between 14 and 17?





I do think that pregnancy below the age of 16 is shocking, obviously its always gonna happen and no one can stop it happening no matter how hard you try, how clued up about sex and pregnancy and contraception the kids are and how strict their parents are. Its still gonna happen. But i do have a kind of moral, if thats what it could be called? In UK the legal age for sex is 16. So if they say yes, your 16 now you can have sex, why are they surprised or upset at the number or 16 17 18 19 yearolds who are pregnant? If the legal age of sex is 16, so is the legal age of a mother technically. So if the government dont like it, they should change it.


I personally support teenage pregnancy IF it was an accident, getting pregnant when your still in school on purpose is STUPID, completley irrisponsible, selfish thing to do. But if its an accident, they girls should be supported for bracing their mistakes and trying to do the best they possibly can do and be the best mothers and fathers they can be. Its not easy on them, they will lose out on so much, they'll not be able to be a kid anymore, and all their time and every single penny will go on that baby, but they already know that, and i commend them for bracing it, because i swear that i know some teenage mothers that are 50000 times better than some 20, 30 and 40 year old mothers.





Im a teenager, but i wouldnt really class myself as one, i feel much older, way more mature than that, and often people dont even think im any younger than 25 hrough the way i act and look.


My sister is 27, and she had a daughter named Hallie, who was not planned and she was to be a single mother. She decided she wanted her job more than her baby, and actually sometimes left a 4 month old Hallie in the house on her own for up to 3 or 4 hours just soshe could work, completley ignored her and everything. I was newly 18 at the time i took Hallie in, i was living with my boyfriend, now fiance, in our 1 bedroomed flat and i quit my job to look after her fulltime, with her mother moving down to london through the week and just coming to see hallie and take her to her home on weekends, not a good life for Hallie.


When hallie was 7 months old i ended up looking after her full time, and my sister didnt come back to pick her up.


Im now 19, and Hallie is nearly 1 and a half. Shes still living with us full time, and we are in the process of adopting her as our own. I have also in that time went through my first pregnancy and given birth 6 days ago to baby Willow, Hallies little sister.


So if anyone says a teen cant handle beign a parent. I'll assure you they can, and sometimes, they do a hell of a better job than older parents. Especially better than my 27 year old stupid sister, who has now permanantly moved to Paris, France.





If you read all that, your amazing haha.


And maybe, instead ofcoming on the internet to basically grief these girls and also evidently the boys, maybe you could try giving them a bit of support or even just a person to chat to. Because i can bet you they'll get seriously lonely in the upcoming months when people start going places without them coz they dont want to 'drag alongn the preggo'.


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theyre emotionally disturbed and they are immature.along with the hype of having babies so young...they only see the good stuff from it.if they only knew what parenting and all the stuff actually involved for


18 + years every single day,every waking minute of thier lives..maybe theyd think twice.it's called uneducated. they should make a mommy camp for kids that they go to for a month.and have to deal with reality.let them learn from it,before they decide to make a bad choice.
Its a normal thing for a girl to want to have a baby, yes at that age too. Quite often the 'urge' comes on and people just follow the urge.


Atypically girls start getting the 'urge' at a young age, if they have strong role models, those urges slip past unnoticed.
It's clearly because they aren't waiting until they're married to have sex.











And it's almost like they forget... sex= possible pregnancy





Plus, some of them think that condoms work 100% of the time, which they don't. Especially if they're old or kept in a glove compartment or wallet.





And I'm sure that they think that ';pulling out'; prevents pregnancy... which it definitely does not.
because they forget that unprotected sex causes pregnancy. for some reason they believe that they wont get pregnant. and most think that the pull out method will protect them from pregnancy. and they are too young to understand the consequences of sex.
Because they are irresponsible children who just want to get off and then end up getting pregnant and pawning their child, their responsibility, off on their parents. And their parents are stupid enough to take on their kid's responsibility!
these days everyone wants to look cool and being a teenage mother makes them think than now that there not all innocent guys will like them more. but also now a days there are lots of teenagers getting rapped at clubs and all around.
It's just the fruits of the women's liberation. Very liberating, eh?
bad parenting....slutty girls
Its the new trend, didn't you know. I don't know. Maybe because they are just selfish.
its all they see on tv and parents are to laxed these days. Need better guidance.
people must forget what a CONDOM is!?!?!
ok for one who are you too judge my friends all have children from ages18-21 and they are fantastic mothers who love their children so before u go and judge maybe you should think hey maybe just maybe some of them are different not as immature as i think they are im 18 yrs old and me and my partner have been together for 3 yrs and we have been ttc and i have already raised my little brother from when he was a newborn so i believe i would make a great mother..........so dont judge until you do know WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON !!!