Consequences of teen Pregnancy [Blog #9]
Submitted by Milana Lewis-Zakuto on Sat, 04/05/2008 - 01:51.
There are many consequences to teen pregnancy. When getting pregnant while still a teenager you are less likely to complete high school and only 1.5% of teen mothers have a college diploma by the age of 30 1. I swear that these numbers are extremely drastic and profound. I don’t fully believe that the statement is true. But it is statistically proven which is even more unbelievable.
In all this talk of teen pregnancy, is anyone thinking of the children and what consequences lay ahead of them? How they are going to be effected by basically having a child be their parent. I know that it’s already difficult for my mother to raise my sister and I and she was considered quite young when she had us. Yet she was an adult. These children’s parents are 15, 16, 17 years of age. They don’t know what they’re doing to their children and their futures. The website Family for First Aid states, “The children of teenage mothers have lower birth weights, are more likely to perform poorly in school, and are at greater risk of abuse and neglect.”. That whole statement in itself is proof enough that something more effective needs to happen. We can’t continue at the rate we’ve been going. Something must be done.
