What are the Pros and Cons of Teenage pregnancy and how can this be curbed?

Answer 1

i'm not sure what you mean with curbed, but if you mean cured... well i'm not sure what the pros are, but if you are planing to be a mom to a child- forget friend and parties... if your mom helps you raze the child than your mom is the real mom, so don;t bring a child in this world to suffer.. if you feel lonely there are organizations to help you....

Answer 2

The only pro I can see is that as a teenager, you are at the height of your fertility years. It's more likely that your child will be healthy....or there are less risks.

There are plenty of cons. Teenagers are less likely to have the means to financially support a child. I heard somebody on the radio today state that it costs roughly $15,000 during the first year of a child's life for clothes, diapers, car seats, etc...etc... Teenagers barely make that kind of money. Teenagers are not likely to have the patience to be a full time parent. Having a child severely reduces the likelihood that a teenager will finish highschool and go on to get a college degree. Without a college degree, the parent's economic possibilities are limited. With limited economic resources, it is likely that the parents will be unable to provide for the child long term.

It's not a good idea.

Answer 3

There are no pros to being a teenage mother. the only way it can be curbed is by not haveing sex. Its for the rest of your life and you have no idea how much work it really is. I had my first child at 18 and it tore my life apart, i had to grow up to fast, i no longer had my own life anymore. its 24 hours a day of nothing but work, a crying baby that you have to get up and feed every 2 hours in the night after their first born- so forget about real sleep. can't go to parties anymore or even hang with out with friends, to tired from being up all night because you baby suddenly got sick and wouldnt stop screaming all night- forget haveing a social life. you have to work a dead end jod and be on welfare just to buy diapers which cost a fortune by the way and you slave night and day just so yous can eat and have a roof over your heads- forget haveing a real life. This is all true for early motherhood. I promise that will happen. take it from someone who is a young mother. Its the worst thing you can do to a child, haveing one to young is a bad mistake. you cant just have the baby and then when things get rough which they will decide that you want to give it back. its forever!!!!!!!!!!!!!. Wait untill your older, theres no rush. you have your whole life ahead of you, dont destroy it on early motherhood.

Answer 4

The only pros I can think of is that a sixteen year old probably has more energy than a thirty year old to run around after the little rugrats. And that you are still reasonably young when they leave home. Neither of these are good enough reasons to be teenage parents.

They only way to curb it is education, education and more education. Perhaps all kids hitting puberty should have to look after a toddler for a few weekends in a row, this should cure them. (I'll lend mine out!)

Answer 5

Ok- I'm not seeing any pro's to teenage pregnancy but I know a lot of con's! I was pregnant as a teen and it was very hard. I got pregnant my Senior year in high school and it was very akward to go to school with your belly being so big. People in school looked at me differenly and I was treated pretty weird as well. I was either treated like I was a **** or like "aww- poor her! Her life is over!" I graduated and had to work 2 jobs to support my daughter and myself because the "sperm donor" of my daughter left us and wanted nothing to do with us. My life was going to work from 6:45 am and getting off of work at 6:30 pm, picking my daughter up from childcare, going home and feeding her, getting her a bath, and than putting her to bed. Friends didn't come around much anymore either. They came by to see the baby and that was the last time I saw them. Teenage pregnancy is not good at all. It's the hardest thing a person has to deal with if they are dealt that hand.
One way to get the teen pregnancy rate down is by more fathers being involoved with their daughters lives and stricter rules for thier sons. It is proven that if a father is involved in their daughters life- they will not look for love else-where. Hope this helps : )

Answer 6

PROS-
Responsibility
Love

( those are the only ones basically )

CONS
low income ( most of the time )
teen has to quit school ( sometimes unless grandma looks after it )
embarassment
kid might not like being born like that as it grows
being left out of fun things that normal teens do
most do not go to college
boys have to pay child support when they could be doing other stuff

Answer 7

The pros are the same as any other pregnancy you get a beautiful baby to take care of sum1 who needs you to be there and the cons are forget ur party lifesytle if u even party and just dont have unprotected sex

Answer 8

i was 18 and in high school when i got pregnant with my first child, yeah you say bye to parties but at the same time it can also change who that person is and make them calm down but it can also make the person realize that they are still a kid at heart, they need to realize that life isnt all fun and games and they need to take responsibility for their actions, there is no way to curb it unless you take them and lock them in their bed room for the rest of their teenage years, lots of teens these days want to do what everyone else is doing and sometimes it does end up getting them way in over their heads... but at the same time im now only 20 and i've calmed way down and even have a second child now... im a GOOD mother and my MOM dosent watch the kids unless she wants to cause i love to be with my babies... me and my husband have our own place and we are doing fine as teenage parents.

Answer 9

One thing that a lot of teen girls don't realize is that when they get pregnant they need to be consuming at LEAST double the ammount of calcium than an adult woman that is pregnant because their own bodies are still growing. This gives them a higher chance of developing osteoporosis later in life. That is why a lot of elderly ladies have this condition. It was normal for a 16 year-old girl (or younger) to get married and start a family

Answer 10

I don't know of any pros except for the miracle and beauty of birth itself.
Cons? It's just difficult. You need to focus on school, a career, and caring for a child 24/7. How can you do that? I wouldn't want to make my child suffer.