Plenty of us know about the show Teen Mom, and like myself, I watch this show quite often and follow the moms on their journey through out motherhood. As seen in the show, being a teen mom is pretty hard and difficult. When you have a baby at 16 there is a chance that your baby's father would not be in your child's life, you would drop out of school, and you might not have the money to support your baby. Some of the teens who are mothers do not plan to have a baby. They got pregnant because they chose to have sex with their boyfriends for the first time, they did not think they would get pregnant the first time, or they were intoxicated when they had sex. Other teens, on the other hand, actually planned to get pregnant with their friends with out their boyfriends knowing and they call it the Pregnancy Pact. Even though pregnancy is a beautiful thing, in young girls it can be very harmful due to various health risk that nay be involved.
http://www.foxnews.com/topics/pregnancy-pact-massachusetts.htm
In this article, it talks about how in 2008, Massachusetts did not believe that these girls can make a pregnancy pact. They thought that the girls all spontaneously got pregnant all at the same time. The girls who got pregnant were 16 years or younger. When I read this, this honestly shock me in a way that I could not explain. The first thing I want to know is what is a girl who is 15 or younger doing with a boyfriend? I feel as if their parents should have been strict on them and made sure they were too busy to have a boyfriend or engage in any sexual activity. If they assumed their child is participating in any sexual activity, they should had a serious talk with their son or daughter and talk about what would happen when they have sex. They should not talk about having a baby because most teenagers might want a baby before they can even get a high school education, what they should talk to their kids about is sexual transmitted diseases, the different changes that their body will go through, and also when they have sex with one person, they are having sex with every person that person had sex with emotionally. Sex is an ongoing chain that never ends.
http://www.healthcommunities.com/teen-pregnancy/children/risks-to-baby-in-teen-pregnancy.shtml
Even though making a pregnancy pact to get pregnant is bad and something anyone would ever think can happen to their daughter or love one, that is not the worst thing that can happen to young girls and even their babies. When a young girl gets pregnant, she opens the door to many risk that can happen to her and her unborn child. In this article, it says that teen mothers are less likely to gain weight which causes their baby to be born with a low birth rate. Another thing that can happen to a baby that is born to a teen mom is that it may be abused and/ or neglected. When the mother finally sees how hard it is to raise a child at a young age and that she would not be able to see her friends or do what she wants, the she will star neglecting the baby and abuse the child because she is upset with herself because she chose not to wait to have a baby.I feel as if teens should have to take a survey before having unprotected sex to see if they are physically, emotionally, and financially stable to have a baby. I honestly feel anyone who is participating in unprotected sex should take this survey to see if they are really ready to have a baby.
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