What would you if your teenage daughter told you she was pregnant? What would you say once you heard 89 others at her high school were in the same situation? Well this is defiantly the case for 90 teenage girls at a Memphis High School. Back in 2004 teen pregnancy was on the rise at this local high school. So why is it that only 6 years later 11% of the student body reports to being pregnant. The school ultimately created a campaign to address the issue but that proved to be ineffective. It didn't help that the school provided little sex education to the students.
This situation is really shocking and out of control. Why do so many young girls think that it is cute to be pregnant. Honestly, there is nothing cute about a baby having babies. A lot of the time these young girls barely know how to take care of themselves let alone some one else. Or why do some girls believe that if they get pregnant it will help keep a boyfriend or crush. Most of the time teen girls tend to believe that having a baby will help them hang on to a boyfriend. The problem with that is at the end of the day a guy will be a guy, baby or no baby. And then the girl is often stuck caring for herself and a child.
Oh but lets not forget about the parents. The question at hand is what role did the parents play in helping to prevent these pregnancies? Aren't parents supposed to inform their kids about sex, STDs and pregnancy? I don't understand why many parents either leave it up to the schools to teach or are ashamed to talk about it. I mean how did they have children in the first place? Either way at the end of the day, I believe that if parents informed their kids more and the school had better prevention methods then less than 90 teenage girls would be pregnant at this given moment.
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