How common is teenage pregnancy?

Answer 1

It's a disturbing popularity, if you ask me. I can't even count the many times I have seen my age mates walking around school with pregnant bellies throughout the years of high school I have so far completed. It bothers me to no end, actually, because I don't understand how they could let that happen. I mean, yeah, condoms break, but if they do, don't continue to have sex, stop and get a new one! And not using condoms at all, thinking that you won't get pregnant...eh, doesn't work. Douching up there only pushes the semen further into a girl as well, so that definitely doesn't work. I wouldn't be complaining about teen pregnancy so much if the teen actually was planning the pregnancy, but nowadays, I find it really wrong to know that there are a group of girls laughing their asses off about their abortion experiences. That's not cute, and it never will be. Of course, I do want to have sex, but it's not like I need a condom, unless a sterile guy can get you pregnant. If so, please let me know before I ruin my adolescence!

Answer 2

Between the ages of 15-19, there are 750,000 pregnancies.

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yes it is common mostly for girl who are 16year when they have their sweet 16 they feel they can do whatever they wish only to find pregnancy,other is to proove themselves worty to their boyfriends while other is because of peer pressure

Answer 3

It isn't that teen pregnancy is popular, but that teens tend to think it "won't happen to them", or that it "doesn't happen the first time", both of which are misconceptions. But there are some who think having a baby is "romantic", or that a baby will help them "have someone to love". This is a misconception, too. Pregnancy can, and does, occur the first time a girl has sex, and can also happen if the boy "pulls out" before ejaculation, too. The best way to prevent pregnancy is by abstinence, but if teens are going to have sex, use common sense, and use precautions. Condoms are cheap, and cost far less than medical bills and raising a child, not to mention how it changes the REST of your life.

Answer 4

Even though the teen pregnancy rate has declined over the past few decades, the fact of the matter is that the United States has the highest teen pregnancy rate of the Western industrialized world. It is true that the teen pregnancy and Birth Rate was much higher prior to 1980 (and especially in the 1950s and 1960s), but at the time young women were getting married and having children before the age of 20. Most of the teen pregnancies occurring before 1980 were to married women; now most of today's teen mothers are unwed. Here are some more interesting teen pregnancy statistics:

How many teens are becoming pregnant?

• Despite declines in rates of teen pregnancy in the U.S., about 820,000 teens become pregnant each year. That means that 34 percent of teenagers have at least one pregnancy before they turn 20.
• 79 percent of teenagers who become pregnant are unmarried.
• Utah's teen pregnancy rate is high, as well as Southern teen pregnancy but these are areas where women still get married prior to the age of 20 with some regularity (although this is changing).
• 80 percent of teenage pregnancies are unintended.
• Nearly four in ten teenage girls whose first intercourse experience happened at 13 or 14 report that the sex was unwanted or involuntary.
• The main rise in the teen pregnancy rate is among girls younger than 15*
• Close to 25 percent of teen mothers have a second child within two years of the first birth.*

Social, educational and financial costs of teen pregnancy

• The United State spends $7 billion each year due to the costs of teen pregnancy.
• Only one-third of teenage mothers complete high school and receive their diplomas
• By age 30, only 1.5 percent of women who had pregnancies as a teenager have a college degree.
• 80 percent of unmarried teen mothers end up on welfare
• Within the first year of becoming teen mothers, one-half of unmarried teen mothers go on welfare.*
• The daughters of teen mothers are 22 percent more likely than their peers to become teen mothers.
• Sons of teenaged mothers have a 13 percent greater chance of ending up in prison as compared to their peers.

How much greater is the U.S. teen pregnancy rate than other countries?*

• Greater teen pregnancy rates translate into higher abortion in the United States for the industrialized world.
• The U.S. has twice the teen pregnancy rate as Canada
• Both Germany and France have a teen pregnancy rate that is four times lower than the U.S.
• Japan's teen pregnancy rate is eight times lower the United States

What do teens think of sexual activity?*

• 82 percent feel that teens should not be sexually active.
• 72 percent agreed that teens that are sexually active should have access to Birth Control.
• 73 percent feel that being a virgin should not be embarrassing
• 58 percent feel that high-school age teens should not be sexually active
• Fewer than one half of teens in high school have had sex
• 67 percent of teens who have had sex wish that they had waited (60 percent of boys and 77 percent of girls).
• Right now i am scared that I might be pregnant. Dont have sex unprotected.

Answer 5

ok speaking from a teenagers point of view i have a good friend and his girl friend has a kid also hes a great dad but he told me that he wanted more responsibility and to be able to think more about others more than himself and to know what its like to be a dad he was always in trouble and now that he has a kid i talk to him every day and he hasn't gotten in trouble ever since his kid and to be honest this miracle child has changed his life

Answer 6

Almost 750,000 U.S. women aged 15-19 become pregnant a year out of 6 million pregnancies over all in a year.

Answer 7

I think because teenagers are getting more freedom and are thinking it will not happen to them.

Answer 8

According to what I have read they are not rising.

Answer 9

Because they might know they are pregnant, or think they are safe about it.... and dont do nothing about it.

But it's better if they wear a condom.

Answer 10

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