Having sex like everyone else is the main reason but there are also deeper reasons. Some feel it makes their relationship more serious having a baby and wants a family, not realizing very few stay together due to the strain of having a baby. Others have not got proper sex education and believe in myths like you can't get pregnant the first time or they just are not educated about birth control. Teens are very much living in the now and don't always think about the consequences, thinking "it wont happen to me". That is just how they are because their brains are not fully developed yet. And then of course there are those who are on bc but it fails.
Unprotected sexual intercourse.
Unprotected sex, lack of sexual education, no access to contraceptives.
The lack of parental guidance is not necessarily the cause of teenage pregnancy, but teens that have an open communication with their parents or an other responsible adult in their lives tend to have more information on how to avoid pregnancy, even if they are sexually active.
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Which of the following is true of teenage pregnancy and parenthhood
Teenage Pregnancy is wrong especially if the parent is younger than sixteen.
teenage pregnancy is a major contributer to poverty and low education attainment
no
There are only disadvantages of the teenage pregnancy. There is not a single advantage of the teenage pregnancy. You cannot advice to continue the teenage pregnancy. She is too immature to become the responsible mother. You have to get the pregnancy terminated in almost all the cases. That inflicts the physical and mental trauma to the teenage girl. She becomes mature by mid twenty, generally.
Isn't teenage pregnancy actually when the girl carries the baby for nine months, and teenage conception just the same as any other conception, when they have sex?
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