Teenage Pregnancy - 7 Traumatic Effects Of Teenage Pregnancy!

It is stress that drives a young adolescent into a relationship. Confirmation that she has conceived a child brings on added stress. She is too young to face this emotional challenge and unable to decide what to do regarding the pregnancy. Furthermore, a large number of negative effects follow a teenage pregnancy, a major one being social stigma. This has been proved by research studies galore.

To go into details about the traumatic effects of teenage pregnancy-
(1) What is an adolescent's age? It is somewhere between 10 and 19 years. Getting pregnant at this age can be life-threatening. Mortality rates are four times higher for a pregnant teenager in the age bracket of 15 to 19, than for women aged between 25 and 29 years. The unborn child is at increased risk too. For girls falling into the age bracket of 10 to 14, it is even worse. Should they have live births, the infant is likely to die soon or face serious health challenges.
(2) Teenage pregnancy makes it difficult for the girl to continue with her education. The drop-out rate is therefore pretty high. Even if they come from similar backgrounds, 61% of adolescents wait till the age of 20 to 21 to have babies and therefore complete high school. In contrast are those girls who give birth to children before they have completed 18 years of age; only 41% become high school graduates.
(3) Even after giving birth, the young mother finds it difficult to keep up with her peers where academic performance is concerned. She is forced to repeat classes and exhibits poor scoring in standardized tests. Ultimately, she may never graduate at all

(4) Finding a regular source of income becomes difficult as every job position demands certain skills which are markedly lacking because of not having a proper education.

(5) The only alternative left after a teenage pregnancy is to take public assistance, that is, go on welfare. Most of these teens are unmarried and over 75% of them ask for support within five years of becoming mothers. Some researchers feel that poverty-ridden teenagers welcome pregnancy so that they can get financial support from the child's father; this is supposed to be a survival mechanism to escape hopeless poverty.

(6) Children born to such young parents often display retarded psycho-social development and malnutritional effects. This is because a teenage mother lacks parenting skills. She fails to understand what her child needs and does not realize the importance of smiling, touching or verbally communicating with her child. Anger against society is taken out on the child and physical abuse is possible.

(7) When grown up, the young ones of these 'teen mothers' exhibit behavioral tendencies which are deemed socially unacceptable. This is in fact the worst effect of a teenage pregnancy. The son can become a criminal offender and land up in prison - the rate is three times more for these boys than normal criminals. The daughter may follow in the footsteps of her mother and become a victim of teenage pregnancy herself.

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Abortion and Adoption

ABORTION ABORTION ABORTION....
im gonna say that a lot so get used to it.
this isnt a pro life nor pro choice post. also u might be offended with my thoughts and opinions,if u are..stop reading then cause i really dont care.
NOW
Theres this couple, a 19 year old female who just graduated from high school no more than a year ago, and a 21 year old guy who didn't finish school.
their having a child,she just found out  shes 4 weeks.
I'll start off with the guy.
He didnt finish school, he has ADHD, was born with clef lip and palet, which messed with him psychologically, is also bi-polar, abnd has 2 felonies on his record and is on house arrest,so turning his life around at this point is pointless to him. he just started a job, hes not really sure if their going to keep him.
Now her
shes 19 years old. the only female in her family, she comes from a very strict family. She has never changed a diaper in her life-scratch that the 1st time she changed a diaper she put it on backwards. She acts like a child which in reality she still is, her parents treat her as if shes 12 still. She has a part time job at a movie theater and only get bout 6 hrs a week.
When they found out that she was pregnant i was the 1st person they told. Considering their situation I said "do you know your options?" they gave me a weird look and said no. I told them that they should either abort the child or have it and give it up for adoption.
They Both still live at home with their parents.
In my opinion bringing a child in to this world, and you being finacially in capable of taking care of it is
STUPID
their going to end up living off the system and will become another statistic
they're having the baby.
Good luck to them.


----->http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/journals/3328201.html

Waiting.....

Patients;

Definition 1.Expectant with calmness, or without discontent; not hasty; not overeager; composed.

Definition 2.Forbearing; long-suffering

Waiting, Patients

Im waiting...

for what I have No idea, but thats what im doing.

thats a lie.

i know what im waiting for

jus i dont know if its WORTH the wait

even god knows i have no patients

but for this im actually WILLING to...

Wait

Hopefully the kind of patients i have doest fall in to 

Definition number 2

im tired of suffering

Maybe thats why im willing to wait

Cause this makes me happy

makes me smile

i guess all i can do is

Wait.