How would you feel if one day you woke up and got the phone call you been dodging? You would soon become a teen parent, 9 months to be exact. Even though teen pregnancy is 100% preventable it happens and when it happens what can you do? You have 3 options: Adoption,Abortion and Accepting it. The 3 A's. They are about 750,000 teen pregnancies annually. Teen pregnancy rose in the year 2005 to 2006 and again in 2006 to 2007 (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/27/us/27teen.html?_r=2) so you could just imagine how much it rose now in the year 2010.
Adoption is one of the 3 choices in whilch you chould choose. Adoption is To take into one's family through legal means and raise as one's own child. Not many choose adoption however. About 2% of women choose adoption. In Fact many teen mothers choose open adoption because they could still be in the baby's life. while the rest choose closed adoption because they believe it would help them move on.(http://www.teenhelp.com/teen-pregnancy/consequences-of-teen-pregnancy-options.html)
Abortion is the second choice. In the United states out of the 50 states 34 of our states allow abortion. About 52% of abortions are made by young adults under 25. Of those 52% 19% of teen choose it. If your choosing abortion,2 doctors have to approve it, its the law. Also it is all confidential. If your 16 and under the doctors dont tell your parents but its best if you do. In the year 2000 they were about 1,800 places to get abortions in the U.S. And why would you choose abortion? 3 reasons: 1. you might feel like you can't afford a baby right now,2.your worried that a child can ruin you future and 3. you dont want to enter parenthood alone( http://www.pregnantteenhelp.org/options/abortion-statistics/)
The final choice is Accepting it.Going through with the pregnany. Having and keeping the baby. Most teens choose this. in fact about 67% choose this one. Also only 40% of teen parents graduate high school compare to 75% of children who wait till they are older than 20 to start a family. Accoriding to The Gladney Center for Adoption 80% of teen mothers get welfare at some point.(http://www.livestrong.com/article/125702-options-pregnant-teens/)Did you know that every 26 seconds a teen gets pregnant and every 56 seconds a teen gives birth.(http://hubpages.com/hub/Pregnant-Teen) Not only that about 25% of mothers give birth a second time 2 years later.
So if you do get that phone call that you would be a teen parent take it easy and rember your 3 A's in which you choose one: Adoption, Abortion, And Accepting it. But you should also rember it 100% preventable.
Teen Pregnancy for a change
By:Alexa Peralta
How would you feel if one day you woke up and got the phone call you been dodging? You would soon become a teen parent, 9 months to be exact. Even though teen pregnancy is 100% preventable it happens and when it happens what can you do? You have 3 options: Adoption,Abortion and Accepting it. The 3 A's. They are about 750,000 teen pregnancies annually. Teen pregnancy rose in the year 2005 to 2006 and again in 2006 to 2007 (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/27/us/27teen.html?_r=2) so you could just imagine how much it rose now in the year 2010.
Adoption is one of the 3 choices in whilch you chould choose. Adoption is To take into one's family through legal means and raise as one's own child. Not many choose adoption however. About 2% of women choose adoption. In Fact many teen mothers choose open adoption because they could still be in the baby's life. while the rest choose closed adoption because they believe it would help them move on.(http://www.teenhelp.com/teen-pregnancy/consequences-of-teen-pregnancy-options.html)
Abortion is the second choice. In the United states out of the 50 states 34 of our states allow abortion. About 52% of abortions are made by young adults under 25. Of those 52% 19% of teen choose it. If your choosing abortion,2 doctors have to approve it, its the law. Also it is all confidential. If your 16 and under the doctors dont tell your parents but its best if you do. In the year 2000 they were about 1,800 places to get abortions in the U.S. And why would you choose abortion? 3 reasons: 1. you might feel like you can't afford a baby right now,2.your worried that a child can ruin you future and 3. you dont want to enter parenthood alone( http://www.pregnantteenhelp.org/options/abortion-statistics/)
The final choice is Accepting it.Going through with the pregnany. Having and keeping the baby. Most teens choose this. in fact about 67% choose this one. Also only 40% of teen parents graduate high school compare to 75% of children who wait till they are older than 20 to start a family. Accoriding to The Gladney Center for Adoption 80% of teen mothers get welfare at some point.(http://www.livestrong.com/article/125702-options-pregnant-teens/)Did you know that every 26 seconds a teen gets pregnant and every 56 seconds a teen gives birth.(http://hubpages.com/hub/Pregnant-Teen) Not only that about 25% of mothers give birth a second time 2 years later.
So if you do get that phone call that you would be a teen parent take it easy and rember your 3 A's in which you choose one: Adoption, Abortion, And Accepting it. But you should also rember it 100% preventable.
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