Yeah... because most teen pregnancy isn't about having a child; it's about hormones and having sex and needing physical affection to feel good about yourself. And, teenagers most likely to give in to those feelings are not ready to handle a child.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

this is true for all pregnancy actually. in a place where women are educated and have the same rights as men, they're more likely to both have less children and have them later in life.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I get the gist of the post, but my friend had a son at 16 and he is 5 now but totally growing up in a stable environment. Her and her sons father are not together romantically but they still work together to raise him well.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

So the condom breaking/thinking the guy is going to be able to pull out means you will raise a child in an unsteady enviorment, but not having sex at all means that if you do have a kid it will be raised in a steady enviorment???? I think this post is just trying to find a reason to talk shit about teen parents. I don't see the correlation.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

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.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

That's all after they got pregnant, not before, and all because they got pregnant.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

"Recent studies suggest, for example, that 'most young mothers leave school before becoming pregnant, rather than the converse, and that mothers who give birth while in school are as likely to graduate as their peers,'"

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I've done my research, and the only thing I see is that girls who become pregnant usually drop out of school because of the pregnancy, not girls that drop out of school are more likely to become pregnant.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

"Of those teenage girls who choose to continue their pregnancy, a large proportion are from a disadvantaged or dysfunctional socio-economic background. They are increasingly young and, in many cases, were themselves born to teenage mothers" http://www.msss.gouv.qc.ca/en/sujets/prob_sociaux/teenage_pregnancy.php i'm not saying they are bad people, but you don't see as many honor role students getting pregnant...

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Getting good grades=/= you won't get pregnant. Getting good grades does not make the condom fairy ensure yours will not break. Coming from a disadvantaged backround=/= you will raise your own child in unsteady enviorment. From your own article: These young women can nevertheless be very good mothers if they receive proper support.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

of course it doesn't. But people with higher grades are more likely to not have sex and/or actually use contraception. as for disadvantaged =/= unstable environment, i'm going to respectfully disagree. If a teen mother is from a poor and unstable family then they will have much less [financial] support than a rich and successful family in most cases. The harder it is to pay the bills the less likely it is that a stable environment can be maintained despite the mothers intentions. A determined mother of course could make ends meet and of course there are teen pregnancies to rich families. teens that are careful and don't have sex until they are ready and if so do so carefully (using multiple forms of contraception) are less likely to become pregnant and also more likely to be careful with money and other resources if they did get pregnant.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

..................NO. Just because you have good grades doesn't mean you're a responsible little virgin child/makes the condom fairy ensure yours will not break. There's more to a stable enviorment than having lots of money. And I see no connection between teens not having sex until they're ready and using contreception means they will be more careful with money and other resources if they did get pregnant. It seems like the way you see it is teen pregnancy= bad so give teen parents the bad traits and not being a teen parent=good so give them the good traits.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

you seem very bigoted, but then again so do i. I did my research and came to the conclusion that although many teen pregnancies happen to people who will raise children in a stable condition, many more happen because irresponsible actions (e.g not using contraception) and they will continue being irresponsible, as stats show, leaving there child in an unstable or impoverish situation. as for good grades = virgin: as this study shows (http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/new-study-on-teen-sex-and-grades-in-school-44717) teens with high grades have sex only when in a good, long term relationship which doesn't lower the chances of pregnancy but does lower the chance that a student with good grades will have sex. if you have some sort of study or paper please send it to me, i'm open to change my opinion if i'm given evidence.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I seem biggoted because I'm open minded that not all teen parents are every single bad trait that you listed? I'm not taking you seriously anymore after that, so I quit reading.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

i said you seem bigoted, and that i am as well. The conversation was turning away from actual debating and more into a flame war. as for open mindedness, i'm quite happy to accept that teen mothers are perfectly great people, just that they a) aren't likely to make good parents at such a young age, and b) are more likely than other demographics to be troubled. I'm literally asking you to tell me why i'm wrong, and all you can come up with is calling me an idiot... You don't seem very open minded since you refuse to even finish reading anything you disagree with

by Anonymous 12 years ago

If I didn't read the first one, what makes you think I'm going to read this one?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Your conversation has nothing to do with them being good people. They never called you an idiot. And I don't understand how you think they don't read anything they disagree with if they've been talking to you this whole time.

by Anonymous 12 years ago