Jarhead
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Could be...
What is your proposed alternative? Prohibit birth control to teens? Keep them in the dark about sex and hope they don't figure it out?
The reason the teen pregnancy rate keeps going up is that teens like to fuck. For some reason, they enjoy it. The negative social scandle of a teen getting pregnant is no longer there. The family is no longer humiliated if their daughter gets pregnant....ask Sarah Palin
Why? What happened to it? And who led the charge to get rid of it?
I think the pro-life movement should take some credit for that. They encourage women to carry their pregnancies to term.
I see it as a positive sign.
Back in the days when abortion was illegal getting pregnant out of wedlock was a fate worse than death.
Now women have more choices and they increasingly choose to continue their pregnancies. Single parenthood doesn't have the stigma it once did.
I agree as it pertains to single women pregnancies.
I believe, however, the questionm is why TEEN pregnancies are no longer the "taboo" they used to be.
Whereas the birth of a child is a beautiful thing, the birth oif a child by another child will likely create financial hardship and the loss of some of the "innocent" years that are important in ones development as they approach adulthood.
I can not imagine life at the age of 16 or 17 if I had the responsibility of a child.