Can you give me some social and economical reasons why teen pregnancy should not be accepted?

Question

U can give points on the mental, psycological and any other realms.

Answer 1

How about a religious reason - because a teenager typically is not married, and one should not have premarital sex and/or children outside of marriage.

Economical - duh....how many teenagers do you know that can support themselves, let alone a baby? The taxpayers or the teenager's parents end up supporting the baby.

Mental - a teenager is not ready to handle the responsiblity that comes along with parenting. Many are still trying to figure out who they are in the world. How are they supposed to be responsible for the future of another human being when their's isn't even clear?

Answer 2

So are you saying if your mom had you at 16 she would have been a bad mother or had mental or psychological problems witch by the way this is how you spell psychological ! Due to her having you at such a young age.I honestly didn't. I had my daughter at 16 and she is now six.I bring home 39grand a year and my husband brings home 40.And yes its her father. We have been together 4 eight years we will be married 4 one year on 8-5-07.And i had no problems with my pregnancy she was born weighing 8 pounds 14 oz and was 22 inch's long with no medical problems on 4-7-01.I think teen pregnancy shouldn't happen but does and all teen mothers are stereo typed as bad mothers when i take care of my daughter way better then most 20 to 40 year old women out there.There is no age limit to being a good parent .I put my daughters needs and emotions before anyone Else's even my own since they day i saw her beautiful face for the first time!Were working on are second now.Ill be 23 next month 5-21-84 .Witch was my age goal to have my first child but i guess god had other plans for us!So i don't think that its yours or anybody Else's job to decide what should be accepted and what shouldn't be.Don't be so quick to judge someone just because they had a child at a young age.I'm a successful business women and mother!

Answer 3

Honey, it has nothing to do with being "accepted".
Lets face it, everyone here can rattle off all of the same answers, and they're pretty much all right.

The one thing most havent addressed is your use of not be accepted".

It is not that we,as americans, humans, people, whatever, do not "accept" teen pregnancy. Clearly, we've accepted it, we know its out there, thats why there are so many different programs to try and prevent it.

I am 21, I have a 7 month old, and I'm married, and it is STILL hard sometimes..you deal with a whole range of things, and even at 21 some people would say I am too young, for me personally, I have always been very mature for my age, from a very young age. But even at that, and the secuirty of being financially ok and married and things good, it is still a very big thing..and like everyone else here has said, a good 90% or more of teenagers, the girls AND boys, are no-where near Emotionaly,mentaly,physicaly,socialy or financialy ready to be parents, or to handle the affects of pregnancy, esspecially being that age...
In fact Ill even go so far as to say its not that society "shuns" teenagers who become pregnant, rather, they feel sorry for them and for the child should it be brought into the world, because it doesnt get any easier..and thats the issue, thats why all the classes for prevention and preparation etc.

Answer 4

1. religon, most say to keep for after I do. Teenagers most are not married.
2. They have quite a bit of life to live ahead of them and even though their is a will their is a way. It just wont be the same for them.
3. Financialy they just wont be able to do it quite as well as if they were allready out of college and have a solid job.
4.So young they are not very motherly and most don't breastfeed and it is so heatly not too. I understand a lot of adault mothers dont but it is mostly other reasons than just not wanting too.
5.The teen age mothers parents have to act and financialy be more like parents than grandparents.
6. teen age mom doesn't know how to parent and will instead be the babys friend, most likely saring their room with them like siblings do.
7. Will the father realy be there, probably not. Even if he is what will this do to his parents if they find a job out of state? A child him self. There is a line for everything, a girl in my highschool class was a mother, never had her ears pierced, so she went to the mall to do this, got her daughters ears pierced singed the parent concent form. When she went to do her own not being 18 yet they asked for her moms concent , never got her ears pierced, she had to wait a yr and half before she was able to.

8. Social it will be real hard for the girl to find a guy that will accept her and her baby. Less dates, no prom, no spring break.

9. A baby form teen pregnancy will see it as an okay thing and do the same them selves.

10. Later may resent the child after they realize all that they are missing in their own life by giving life to their baby.

Answer 5

Economically speaking raising a child on a minimum wage job is darn near impossible if the lack of support from family, and above all the boyfriend. What makes it hard is when the teenager is not yet 16yrs.old to even hold a job the financial support has to come from somewhere. The lack of maturity in a teenager it becomes a child raising a child. Some teenagers want children so someone will love them that is a hard job for a child to fill and the wrong reason to have a child. Parenting and raising a child is a 24 hr. 365 days a year job, no calling in sick, no vacations and these are things some teenagers don't even think about. Being a teenager now is very frightening because teenagers not only have to think about birth control but protecting themselves from STD's and AIDS. Is a few minutes of pleasure worth dying for think about it.

Answer 6

I had my first child at 21 and although I was a very mature even as a teenager, I feel that the I would have been more prepared at a later age.

I think that being a teen parent is very hard, and unfortunately, the children are the ones who involuntarily suffer... The chances of a child being raised up properly with good morals, health...etc are much smaller.

And not to mention if the teenager has to raise the child alone without the child's other parent.

Financially, most teenagers can't support themselves, and trust me children are quite expensive.....

Mentally...yes I think a teenage parent would make some immature choices and in turn may result in child having mental issues later in life.

Morally.....having sex before marriage goes against God's standards..... But even married teens will have many struggles in raising a child.

Answer 7

I am 17 years old going on 18 in July, my son's mom is 19 now. We had my son who is 2 1/2 right now one week before my 15th birthday, I was 15 and she was 17. We have not been on any welfare or government aid of any sort. We both finished high school, in fact I graduated my junior year of high school. I have worked since then and support my own family on my own while my wife (my sons mom) attends college with a psych major. We have our own car, pay our own bills and live independently. Neither of our families really helped us with the exception of my grandparents who gave me more money than they needed to for being their "maintenance man". It is hard to say whether teen pregnancy should be accepted or not accepted. There are people who give teen parents a bad rep and then there is people who parent their children better than someone who has a child at an "accepted" age. I pay taxes like everyone else and if me being a taxpayer means I am supporting a teen parent who is struggling then that is fine with me. Who would rather these people get no help at all? I have read ignorant people's responses to similar questions like this and it is ridiculous. The case is different for everyone.

Answer 8

Hello.

I did not read all of the answers, but you have been given several answers so far to your question. I'm going to give you an opposite to your question. There are some great social and economical reasons why teen pregnancy must be accepted:

1. To create laws to prohibit teen pregnancy removes freedom beginning with defining the "age of consent" in stricter terms as well as Federal (opposed to State) terms. If you are from the U.S. you will understand the problems inherent in creating a Federal Age of Consent Law.

2. If teen pregnancy is not accepted by law, then how is the law to be enforced? There used to be "blue laws" on the books which you can research. The Vice Squad of police departments will be further taxed to enforce new blue laws. The methods with which they enforce the blue laws may violate privacy. While privacy of minors may not be that big of a legal hassle, chances are the privacy of minors can only be violated by violating the privacy of the adults who are responsible for the teens, for eg: teens having sex in parents' homes while parents are not home.

The above alone already gets into legislative costs, judicial costs, beaurocratic costs as well as lawsuit costs, and more.

3. What about teens who become pregnant if blue laws were in force? Would it be constitutional to force teens to have abortions? Could it even be construed as ethical? Certainly, could it be construed as religiously moral? All of the above issues and more would have to be considered. The emotional and psychological impacts of legally forced abortions would have to be measured.

4. Would forced sterilization occur for those teens who procreated? Again, this has been done in the past for other populations. The lawsuits would begin to pile up.

Economically, I doubt if the U.S. can enforce laws prohibiting teen pregnancy.

Answer 9

I think economically the state or other organizations end up paying for the care and treatment of both teen mother and child. That comes from your and my taxes.

emotionally and physically--teens are not prepared to have children.

If I answer socially then I will open up a can of worms and we will have to get all debating and political....who needs another argument.

I personally think that you should wait to have children until you are married and have a somewhat stable enviorment for your offspring. Have you taken a look around your neighborhood and community lately, Most of these children are half raised or raising themselves. Living on welfare. Deadbeat fathers or mothers for that matter. If you don't have sex then you can't get pregnant, then you are not altering your life or the life of your child.

well, can of worms no matter what you say.

Spiritually you should wait for the mate God has for you then have children.

You should do all you can to prevent it--if you don't want the responsibilities that go with sex.

I had my first child @ 19 ( I was married) I don't recommend that to anyone and especially my teenage daughters. It is a very hard road to hoe....financially difficult, physically hard, mentally "am I ready for this, even though it happening to my body"

sorry to ramble on.

good luck getting your answers

GREAT QUESTION

Answer 10

In aducated affluent societies , teen pregnancy should always be accepted. By the age of 13 all boys and girls should have known from their parents, internet and school studies about pregnancy and the choice of timing of pregnancy. If there is a conscious decision to have a child by the concerned male and female, why should this not be accepted if there is no legal bar.
For undeucated, poor and backward countries: the teenage pregnancy may not be accepted for the following reasons:
1. Difficulty of mother in terms of health,
2. Ill mental preparedness and immaturity of the mother and father.
3. Social stigma about pregnancy before marriage.
4.Security of the mother and child in terms of health care and income support
5.Ignorance about sex and pregnancy of teenagers.

Answer 11

Economically....teenagers are not equipped/educated enough to work in an environment that can help them be self-sufficient enough to fully financially support a child. Most teens qualify for service-type, typically minimum-wage paying jobs. The cost of rent, child care, food, utilities, and all the other things that come with being a parent often outweigh the wages that they make - either putting them in debt, or leaving someone else to foot the bill - whether it be the parents of the teen, or the taxpayers. I think that the college years are often forsaken or substantially put off - due to lack of time spent working to support the new family - which really limits teenage parents in what they are able to accomplish or earn later in life.

Mentally or psychologically...I think a lot of teenagers are not ready for the responsibility of becoming parents. While it is possible for them to be good parents, I think that a lot of teens are still "kids" themselves, and are self-focused and still trying to grow into adulthood. From the teen parents that I have known - the loss of the "finding yourself" years due to the responsibility of parenthood is something that I have seen grow into resentment for the child - which is definitely not healthy and can lead to abusive situations.

Just a few things off the top of my head :)