Teen pregnancy is a social social, economic, and educational issue. Prior to 1970 , teen pregnancy was a social norm. Today teen mothers are usually unmarried/ living in poverty. Teen's offspring are the highest risk of learning disabilities, child abuse, and/or foster placement. Social media and other major sources of information have been bombarding young people with thoughts and promotion of teen pregnancy, such as:
sexuality into the school curriculum as early as kindergarten to help lower/ reduce pregnancy rate and the intergenerational transmission of early childbearing under conditions of poverty
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Know your child’s friends and their families.
Discourage early, frequent and steady dating
Take a strong stand again teens dating people who are significantly older or younger than they are.
Help your teens have options for the future that are much more attractive than early pregnancy and parenthood.
Emphasize how much you value education
Non-Hispanic Black girls and Native American girls have seen much slower drops in teen pregnancy compared to Asian American girls.
https://www.udel.edu/canr/cooperative-extension/fact-sheets/avoid-teen-pregnancy-parenting-tip/
Source of condoms being sent through the mail for free: https://detroitmi.gov/departments/detroit-health-department/programs-and-services/hivsti-program/order-free-condoms-mail
In conclusion, after analyzing teen pregnancy and the causes, there is a solution to prevent teen pregnancy. Firstly, teenagers should be provided with sex education, that does not heavily infer that the only solution to prevent pregnancy is through celibacy. Teenagers should be well educated on all the different forms of birth control such as condoms, IUD, vaginal ring, birth control shot, and much more. Secondly, teenagers should have access to some form of birth control while they are sexually active. If a teenager is sexually active and does not have access to birth control, as mentioned previously they can utilize the Detroit Health Department website and receive condoms for free. Having programs out there that do provide free birth control significantly decreases the number of teen pregnancies. As, it is having been shown that although teenagers may not have access to birth control it may not stop them from staying sexually active.
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