What is a realistic approach towards preventing teen pregnancies ?

Question

I had suggested sterilizing them, but obviously that's not doable. The consequences of teen pregnancies are devastating and only some of the time the child ends up having a nice life. I know there are mature teens out there, but the irresponsible ones overcome the numbers. Sex Education videos do not work, condoms, birth control, talks, morals,parents talking to them .... none of them seem to work, because the kids are only having kids younger. OF course i understand there are some teens that do take care of their kids and are now happy and I am not arguing about that. I see so many grand parents rasing the teen's kids, while they go on as though they never had a kid. Most of the time teens do not become mature after having a child, they remain the same, careless and immature. Perhaps mandatory birth control would help. This is a growing issue. Any suggestions ?

Answer 1

I honestly can't think of anything. When somebody is trying to discuss the consequences of sex with an immature teenager you can tell they'd have more success talking to a brick wall.

I don't know, maybe television is to blame. You always see people going off together to have sex, even before the watershed. I think denying the existence of sex, along with all things good about it until a person becomes legal might work lol. There's so much of it around and I think things are just going to get worse. There's a lot of pressure for young teenagers to lose their virginity to fit in and I don't think that will change.

Answer 2

Offer a better future.

An awful lot of the problem seems to come from kids who don't have a lot of hope for same. They don't look to be able to envision an education, a career, a long-term relationship.

Seriously -- scholarship information, decent schools, some rudimentary education in having the self-respect to not feel like (1) a pregnancy might keep a boyfriend around, and (2) that boyfriend was worth keeping around, would go a long way.

The teen pregnancy rate is notably lower in Canada than in the US. University tuition is a lot cheaper here. Go figure.

Answer 3

As soon as my daughter starts her "woman thing" I am going to give her Birth control and tell her they are vitamins and she needs them now that she is a woman.Hehe.Really though, the parents can take more control and get their daughters on some kind of birth control, it does not make teen sex okay, but is better to get them on the pill then watch them go through 9 months of pregnancy.

Answer 4

A realistic approach towards preventing teen pregnancies is to 1st of all, live your life according to the Bible. 2nd, teach your children at a very young age that sex is not something "bad" or "dirty", it is something beautiful between a husband and a wife, and it is meant for only a husband and a wife. Lastly, parents need to prevent their children from watching all the garbage that is thrown at them on TV and movies, and be VERY selective in who they are friends with. So many parents don't even realize that those "innocent" comments made on all those Disney Channel/Nickelodeon shows about boyfriends and girlfriends, etc... are having a lasting effect on their very young, innocent children. Parents are ultimately responsible for teaching their children what is right.

Answer 5

There is no solution since the creator intended humans to start breeding as soon as they were able. Our complex society requires children to spend more time in school but they are still having sex. Short of finding some way to delay the hormonal change in males to not happen until they are in their mid twenties and to keep the girls locked away from male access until then, I don't see it happening.

Answer 6

I have found that no matter how hard you try as a parent to teach your kids the facts, they think they can do it better or its not going to happen to them. All you can do as the parent is educate. Kids have to be responsible for their own actions, and you as a parent need to be supportive. You have not failed as a parent, teens just have their own minds and do their own thing. Hang in there!!!

Answer 7

teen being pregnant i might guess is in itself no longer a concern - the subject arises while childrens get pregnant devoid of making plans to, and devoid of the right subject to guard a baby. Now, i visit assume the 2d question of yours is a rhetorical one, yet shunning every physique has led to no longer something yet greater issues. i think of that courses to help childrens as quickly as they have become pregnant/given start are as important as preventive measures, because of the fact, shall we face it, it is going to ensue. the only concern you could extremely do is tutor many times approximately protection in faculties or television, and make it greater attainable. yet intercourse is intercourse, if we did no longer prefer to have it, and have been choosy approximately how we had it, there may be no pregnancies in any respect.

Answer 8

it is all about getting them young and making sex an easy thing to discuss, make sure that your child feels comfortable asking you any sexually related question, they are naturally curious and most importantly you must feel completely confident and comfortable about answering anything they might throw at you in my time I've heard things ranging from"but how do dogs do it?" to "why do you need a boy? can't you just have the baby?".

Answer 9

Mandatory birth control as you said. I have a friend who caught her granddaughter in the act. Now, she & the mother make sure the girl gets the shot (I'm too old to know what it is). they don't trust her to wear the patch.

Answer 10

There is no one approach that is likely to work. Education, and widespread availability of preventive measures are about as good as we can do.