-Why is teenage pregnancy so usual in Urban communities?

Question

thanks

Answer 1

Four words: Lack of Personal Responsibility...period. When these teens look at their grandparents, parents and their siblings and realize that they've all been raised by 'The System", pregnancy without marriage is the norm. Why change? As long as Uncle Sam keeps paying the bills...

Answer 2

Wow...great question! I think that there are two specific factors associated with the both perceived and real stigma of urban young pregnancy.

The first is that it is simply more socially acceptable in these environments, and so teenage pregnancy feeds upon itself. Since teenagers do what teenagers will do, the work is towards "not" getting pregnant - not the other way around. Thus, a lack of sustained committment to not becoming pregnant = becoming pregnant. Relatedly, there is less of a social stigma surrounding urban (particularly African American) pregnancy, so the issue is much more prevalent and visable by the rest of society.

Which leads to the other key contributor:

While urban teen pregnancy is statistically somewhat higher than in other communities, the social acceptance component of the pregnancy means that it is much more visable. That is, when a rural teen becomes pregnant, the family and/or community will tend to hide the occurrence out of a sense of shame - utimately leading the girl to get married, (astensibly eliminating the "shame component" to the family), have a very tight-lipped abortion, or, move to the inner city!!

Answer 3

The statistics don't favor or disfavor your assumption. Teenage pregnancy cuts across all social strata and is general spawned by a lack of education, a lack of self esteem (*via the need to be loved unconditionally even if its from an infant*) and a lack a sense of personal responsibility. A lot of pregnant teens have an immature viewpoint of what being a mother or father will really be like and think they can set it aside like a toy they don't want when they get bored or upset with the situation.

Answer 4

It's also common in small towns and rural areas. A lot of teens who become pregnant also have parents who were very young when they had them. As a result, they have learned that it is socially acceptable. It's actually society, not nature, that tells teens that they need to wait until they are older to start having children. In the animal world, animals start reproducing as soon as they reach sexual maturity. While I personally don't condone having children at a young age, I still see it as being more natural than women in their 40s and even beyond having babies with the help of expensive fertility treatments.

Answer 5

i'm not sure that it is. teenage pregnancy is actually on a ten-year down trend and hasn't reached the heights that we experienced in the 90s. the only reason i would think teen pregnancy would be more prevalent in cities than in rural areas is due to the higher population density in these areas. there are more people in cities by definition so it is likely that any trend would be in higher numbers than in a less populated area. basically, a city of 10,000 people living in close proximity will probably have a higher teen pregnancy, burglary, murder, etc rate than a town of 300.

Answer 6

I think it is a problem everywhere. I also think parents should supply birth control, as part of their parental duty, at the right time, if needed. Obviously, more education is required for teens prior to their sexual adventures. It is normal for them to be interested. That should first be accepted in our society, as it is in most others.

Answer 7

because with the inner cities, you have an entire subculture of fatherless children making more fatherless children generation unto generation ... if these kids actually had fathers to make them behave, such things would not happen!

Answer 8

its the wind