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Today teenagers are more familiar with sex, have more sex partners, and are engaging more in unprotected sex than any other generation. When teenagers engage in unprotected sex they fail to seek out all the consequence that may follow from having unprotected sex, one of the consequences is getting pregnant.
Teenage pregnancy is an overwhelming problem in the United States. Over one million American teenagers become pregnant each year this means that 1 in 10 girls will become pregnant annually. Also, every 26 seconds a teenage girl becomes pregnant and every 56 seconds a child of a teenage mother is born. More than 600,000 of these teenage girls will give birth and only ninety percent of these girls will elect to keep their baby. Since these girls are so young their babies will have a higher chance of being born with birth defects such as being born prematurely, suffer from mental retardation, and other birth defects. Many reasons contribute to the high rate of teenage pregnancy.......

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