Controlling Teens

Controlling Teens

Teens in our new generation, have learned to grow quickly while still in High School. Many of our teens have been sexually active with or without their parents consent, which have caused birth rates in teens to go up, because of the lack of communication and knowledge about the different kinds of birth control. Although birth control can help, birth rates, unwanted pregnancies, and orphan rates to decline, it could also change our future drastically.

Birth control can mean a wide range of things, from contraceptives to other ways of avoiding pregnancy, like being abstinence. Teens face lots of tough decisions, and one of them is whether to have sex or not. Most teens in the United States encounter unwanted pregnancies, “8 in 10 are unintended [pregnancies]”. Hispanic and Black teens have the highest rate in teen pregnancies in the United States, within the two, Hispanic rates is much higher than black teens. The Teen pregnancy rate in the United States is twice as much of any other industrialized Nation, “750,000 teens become pregnant every year, and half of them are unplanned.”

Teens that become parents are less likely to complete High School, also teen mothers are more likely to be on Welfare, “Their pregnancy costs the United States at least seven billion dollars annually”. Teen parents are often less able to care for their children, and their children will most likely follow in their footsteps and be young teen parents themselves. Many teen pregnancies end in abortion, they are also more

dangerous and traumatic, “34% of young women become pregnant at least once before the age of 20, [which] [is] about 820,000 a year.”, “1.4 of teen mothers will have a college degree by the age of thirty”.

Abortion rates in “girls ages between 13 and 16 is about 1 percent conception and approximately a half of the pregnancies are terminated…..‘overall over 1/3 of al teenage pregnancies are terminated in 2007‘ ”. Since 2009, abortion rates

have...