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Teen Pregnancy

Teen Pregnancy
According to research published by The Alan Guttmacher Institute on their website regarding teen pregnancy, "a sexually active teenager who does not use contraceptives has a 90% chance of becoming pregnant within one year" (www.agi-usa.org). How to prevent teen pregnancy has been a question for many years now. Statistics have been running wild trying to keep up with the teenage generation; in work published by Stanley K. Henshaw - U.S. Teenage pregnancy statistics with comparative statistics for women aged 20- 24, it states that "Each year, almost 1 million teenage women--10% of all women aged 15-19 and 19% of those who have had sexual intercourse--become pregnant" (p. 5). Many people have their opinions on the subject (teen pregnancy), because teens seem to be getting pregnant all so fast these days. People fail to realize that having a baby is supposed to be a sort of privilege. Many people take having a baby as a joke. Getting pregnant and having a child......


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