Some maybe right and most are wrong but at the end we all know that pregnancy is not something that most teens look forward to. Now that I am ending my research paper I found somebody who felt the same way I feel after all this research and expressed it very well taking into consideration that I feel like everyone is being too supportive of teens having sex without caring or realizing any consequences. I find that support is needed for these teens but society might be encouraging teens to have sex instead of supporting them.
“Birth-control failure? Pressure from their partner? Ignorance about birth control? No. Forty-five percent of these girls had no higher aspirations than having a baby so why wait?
Among members of the general community, only three percent would have guessed that teens would want to become pregnant. Nearly half of the public at large appears convinced that pregnancy was a case of youngsters thinking it couldn't happen to them. Among the teens themselves, only 23 percent fell into the can't-happen-to-me category. Not surprising, after that first blast of cold water, the med students note that those most likely to become pregnant are the teens that aren't doing that well in school, and have no plans beyond high school or beyond the next nine months, for that matter. This should serve as a challenge to parents, teachers and counselors: give all youngsters some clear lessons lots of them in life's hard realities.” (1, SOME STARTLING NEWS ABOUT TEEN PREGNANCY).