These are activities that provide teens activities that do Not involve sex and Do involve lots of other people, especially adults:
The city, especially small towns or areas with lots of Hispanics or under-educated should offer FREE
- movies
- education and lots of "how to"
- sports events
- money management
- cheaper birth control: or easier access and insurance for teens age 11-18. If they had control (of any sort), they would not be getting pregnant period.
- girls scouts events really often
- historical sites
- libraries
- take home a baby classes - baby doll that cries
- college campuses
- teach morals, character, leadership, responsibility, self confidence, independence, freedom of thought
- teach how to raise a child
- how to take care of child for the first year and all the work that entails, and all the sacrifices you Must make
Consider why it happens
- uneducated
- lack of birth control
- not know consequences
- not know how to stop it from happening
- everyone is having sex
- I won't get pregnant
Who gets pregnant?
- Increases with poverty. Have you ever met a rich girl who had a baby as a teen? If so, did she have any problems raising the kid?
- depends on ethnicity
- depends on education and level of
- decreases with adult support
- decreases if busy
- increases if you do it once
- if mom was a teen mom, increases likelihood you will be too
- increases depending on the environment
- does religion affect it?
Not abstinence
- Not scare you out of it; horror movies
- Not boring education
- Sex is Not scary or Boring; all people inherently know it is interesting and we are programmed knowing how to do it. We were put on this earth, as animals, needing to reproduce in order to have a future generation, and keep my important genes going!
I grew up with some frisky friends, why didn't I get pregnant as a teen; or even have sex? I was Never told don't have sex. I thought for myself. I was busy with school extra curricular activities until 7 pm every night! I had lots of plans and lots of homework. I had a sense of self-confidence, and responsibility. But most of all, I had plans for the future! And when I did start having sex, I used protection and I was knowledgeable and I had plenty of resources to ask questions (that's called college, babe, they hand you condoms when you go to eat in the cafeteria).
Why should we do this? Why does it matter?
Because teen pregnancy is costing tax payers money of Everyone! It is also costing us our workforce and bringing more mouths to feed and fewer resources to feed them with.
It costs our:
- welfare Because more people to support.
- medicare
- health insurance because of their age and lack of a financial future.
- decreases the money in our economy because it is harder to get an education or a job if you are pregnant or a teen.
- food stamps
Why do teens get pregnant?
- for real!
- they need something to do
- it's cool
- they are Not preventing it
- their parents do Not know where they are (we cannot change this, and it will not change itself)
- they do not have the money for consistent birth control, abortion, or the baby
- they do Not know what they are getting themselves into
How many of these Women are left by the boy who knocked them up?
They are Women once they start bringing up a child into this society. They are forced out of their childhood in order to take care of a new child. They can no longer have fun, do things for themselves; they must take care of this child, get a job, etc. That is a huge change to go through in a mere 9 months.
Where would you be if you had gotten pregnant as a teen? Or gotten someone else pregnant?
Why didn't you?
They need to know the benefits of marriage first,
- of falling in love,
- of being with one guy.
We cannot teach them that with a textbook. We can lead by example and try to explain. They have to learn on their own. But we can lead them there. We can support them every step of the way. We can support them in our legislature. We should not be paying for their mistakes, we should be lifting them up and showing them other options, other ways. If these other options cost money, well we are already paying. And if they have results, well then we will stop paying for the pregnant teens and start paying for well educated, knowledgeable teens who are willing and Ready to have kids and Willing to Wait.
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