Teen Pregnancy Advisor

One of the greatest challenges presented by teen pregnancy is a sense of separation from one’s peers. A pregnant teen who was once social, outgoing and into going out with friends who has decided to keep her baby is likely to withdraw as the pregnancy affects her energy level and she seems to have less in common with her peer group. This is a part of the reason why many teens who make the choice to keep their babies end up dropping out of school.
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While Teen Pregnancy Advisor is designed to address the topic of pregnant teens and the options that are available to them, there are times and places in which there is some carry over into other topics. One of these topics is South Dakota Initiated Measure 11.
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One of the interesting things that has come up regarding teen pregnancy in the couple of months since the Republican National Convention is the idea that pregnant teens are ready to move into marriage and parenthood.
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It’s not difficult to find clusters of teen pregnancies - particularly when you start to look at US Census data. What you’re going to discover fairly quickly is that 53% of young Hispanic women under the age of 20 have given birth.
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It’s interesting to take a closer look at some of the opinion’s that people have when it comes to teen sex, teen pregnancy and the way the two fit into the political process. For example, take what this blogger had to say about talk of sex education in light of the presidential debate and the “focus” on Roe v. Wade:
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One of the issues that is faced when it comes to teen pregnancy is that teens tend to develop a lingo of their own. According to some who work with teens and pre-teens, the new term for getting pregnant is “catching ‘da bump.”
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One of the biggest challenges about teen pregnancy is that is a cycle that often repeats itself. In my partner’s family, for example, the grandmother had two children when she was in her teens - a girl and a boy; the aunt had her first child when she was in her teens (again, a daughter before sons), whose daughter was also pregnant while very young - becoming a grandmother in her 30s.
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One of the topics that has come up within the current presidential election is sex education. Specifically, the topic of abstinence only education which McCain and Palin stand behind. The challenge is that the candidate’s seventeen-year-old daughter is pregnant:
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In Charleston, SC, teens who find themselves pregnant have, in the past, been able to turn to the Florence Crittenton Home when they need medical advice, pregnancy support and parenting education and counseling that will help them to make the right choices about their pregnancy. Funding however has been cut and the agency is set to close - leaving many teens without an option:
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If you took the time to watch the presidential debate last night, you already know that the topic of teen pregnancy did not come up despite the fact that teen pregnancy rates have been on the rise for the first time in 15 years. While some people may think that the only reason why teen pregnancy is coming up in the election is Sarah Palin’s pregnant teenage daughter, the reality is that it is an important issue to consider.
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