Why is it that teen pregnancy is accepted in America?
August 27th, 2008 by
I ask this question as a Father of Four and what I have seen on Yahoo Answers from other parents. IE: I am 16 and having a baby, I don't know the father because I have slept with many men.
can I locate the father for child support? And the majority of the responses are: Con-grads on your Baby,or That's so Great! Is a Teen getting pregnant now accepted in today's society or this is just the new Fad? Andiroo: So far, You have hit it right on the Nose!
August 27th, 2008 at 2:58 pm
Teen pregnancy IS becoming more and more accepted in this day and age the film Juno is proof. It practically glorified premarital and underage sex, then made it seem okay because the heroine gave it up for adoption. I live in Polk County, Florida, and it seems nowadays that all the little tweens are running around with belly and nose piercings, sporting baby bumps and training bras. It's all in how these children are brought up, in a country where no one wants to talk tough about these touchy topics. It seems like having a baby is the new engagement ring with these girls, “if I'm pregnant, he won't leave me and he'll love me more!” Which is wrong.
teen guys bolt when they even hear the word 'pregnant'. Yes, there are the responsible ones who man up and take responsibility, but there aren't nearly enough of them. It's sad, having a baby has been reduced from an act of love to an act of desperation, or (or? and!) stupidity, where the baby is on the same level as a new puppy. “Congratulations on your new baby/puppy!” It's said with the same conviction.
that's just wrong. It's true that teen pregnancy is happening more and more due to the fact that we are beginning to become desensitized to it, much in the way that we've become desensitized to violence in the media.
that we're surrounded by it, we can only deal with it, and now that we're dealing with it, it's all that there is. If we taught teens today about contraceptives, and not just ABSTINENCE TIL MARRIAGE, maybe there'd be less teen mothers.
if we taught our teens about safe sex practices.like, “I know you're going to have sex and I can't stop you from doing it, but please do it safely.
a condom EVERY TIME!” and educate them on how to use them. It's all a matter of the lack of communication between our parents these days, mostly because most teens are afraid of what their parents would say.