How Can We Stop Teenage Pregnancy?

Answer 1

Education. That is the best way. If you feel that your child is having intercourse put them on birth control. Keep a open communication with them so when they are ready they will be comfortable to come and tell you so you can help prevent it. No matter what my mother put me on the pill and gave it to me everyday. She said that she could not be around me 24/7 but she knew that the pill would be.

Answer 2

My husband and I were just discussing this... rather the issue of teenage sex in general. I think that explaining the physical aspects and repercussions of sex isn't enough. They need to learn the emotional and financial effects, too. Not sure how to go about teaching that, though. My niece spent some time with us and after seeing what I go through every night just preparing dinner, messing with the kids, etc, she said she knew she wasn't ready for that...and I have an extremely supportive and involved husband!! I understand the desire to have a baby...but the desire and the reality are 2 completely different things. Having a baby is physically exhausting...first with the pregnancy, then with the newborn stage and lack of sleep. Then when the child starts growing up and you have to teach them right from wrong and worry constantly that they will make the right choice, etc. While I love my children and love being a parent ( by the way: I'm 33 years old, married and stable) it's hard work and I can't imagine doing this on my own, and being a teenager!!
So I guess my answer is, I don't know. I wish I did.

Answer 3

I dont really think that we can stop teenage pregnancy however it would be nice to.....I know that watching the tapes and taking the class and bringing home that fake baby only makes teens want a baby more because they think they are fun....I think actually having a teenage mother that is having to do it all on her own come in and talk to a class would help some. Let that class of teenagers see and hear how hard it really is and have the teenage parent bring in their child so that they can also see how hard it is to get anything done.

Answer 4

Wow. A lot of these answers are rediculous. I was going to make a joke to lighten the mood, but it seems some people have already made asses of themselves being serious.

There is no way to stop teenage pregnancy. The best that anyone could ask for is a good educational system, brought in prior to puberty (mainly in schools, public and private). The schools should focus less on human sexuality... as boys and girls will come into this on their own, but moreover how a child is concieved and what it does to a person.

Lastly, it is the PARENTS' responsibility to talk to their children at a young age. If they are afraid of speaking to their children about sex by the time their child is 9, they probably shouldn't have had children of their own.

Answer 5

HUMMM DESERTED ISLAND???? Naa.. I have all boys (ages 16, 14, 7, 7 and 6) I have talked to the older two about sex and I have purchased them condoms. I know some people think that thats just giving them permission but I was a teenager once and I didnt have to have permission. I look at it this way, they are going to do it! Why not protect them and you in the mean time? If I had a girl, I would have her on the pill the day she started her period. It is NEVER too early to take precautions. Not enough people talk to their kids these days and TRUST me, after some of the talks me and my boys have had....they know more than i do! :)

Answer 6

Actually institute a national sex education program that provides teenagers with honest, accurate birth control information. Give up all of this abstinence garbage.

Improve access to free, confidential medical care for young women, including ALL options for either maintaining or aborting a pregnancy.

Answer 7

I think more information on birth control taught in school--along with learning about abstinence. Less "taboo" about sex for teens--making them more comfortable to talk about it with adults and/or their parents. Better parenting skills. Encouraging high self esteem.

I personally am a teenage parent. At the same time I'm not "typical." I started my adult life at 16 when I was emancipated. I had my son two years later while living with my husband, college educated, and with a good job/career. I'm now a stay at home mother.

Answer 8

The best way is to make birth control easily available. Condoms, spermicide, the pill, Plan B, etc. It does not matter how much their parents or whoever talks to them about "waiting until marriage" because teenagers will just go have sex anyway. They are like bunnies!!! At least a lot of them. I am glad I waited until I turned 20 and found the man of my dreams before giving away my virginity.

Answer 9

Well, teens these days only do it to say, that they've DONE IT~ But parents need to talk to their children and understand that things arn't the same when they were growing up. The more teens know about how much it can ruin thier lives, they wont do it. When I was going to school we had a program. worth the wait. And it really helped, it explaind everything and it really changed the way I thought about things.

Answer 10

Try taking girls into a live delivery. All natural no drugs. Show them what really happens. Let them hear the screams, and see the blood instead of watching it in a video.