Teen pregnancies are major issues in our generation. After these pregnancies movies came out, teenagers thinks it okay to have a baby. Well I disagree on this issue because these movies are showing how pregnancy is and their teaching young ones to have children. Teenagers think its okay to have babies at such a young age. They think their cute and adorable, but they don’t know the circumstances of taking care of one at their young of age.
Maury is a great show that shows how these young women want to have kids. They have sex all the time and make their own decisions and their decision is they are going to have that child any way, any how, without their parents saying yes or no! The movies that were very popular that showed pregnancies were Juno and Knocked Up. Juno was a movie about a girl that had a baby at a very young age and was deciding to adopt or not. Knocked Up was a movie about a woman that was partying and ended up drinking with a random guy and having a one-night-stand that very night and she ended up finding herself pregnant with a stranger. They did unprotected sex and weren’t prepared for having this child through the whole movie. They had to adapt to one another and decide to keep it or not.
While I was in high school, I took a parenting class and we got assigned a baby. I had a boy and we got to name it and dress it. The baby had different levels: Easy, Medium, and Hard. The hard level was absolutely ridiculous because I would get woken up at every hour and had to do its needs. It was a huge responsibility and took a lot of my time. The baby would drive me crazy because all it would do is cry. I had to feed it, change it, rock it, etc. This baby made me realize its way too much responsibility to take care of and decide to wait for kids when I get much older. I think all teenagers in high school should get the opportunity like I did and take care of a baby for 3 days.
Generation X didn’t get the opportunity to know how babies reacted like we got too. It was a different world back then for Generation X moms. The statistics for Generation Y teenage pregnancy is also far higher than average across the OECD. The UK has the fourth highest teenage pregnancy rate after Mexico, Turkey and the United States. In Britain, 23.4 teenage girls per 1,000 gave birth in 2005.
Teenagers need to realize it takes a lot of responsibility to take care of a baby and should wait till they get to a much more mature age and enjoy their life young without having a child in their younger years.
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I wish we would have had babys to take home in school. Many people in my highschool got pregnant at a young age. I think if your having unprotected sex then your making the decision to get pregnant yourself and you should take responcibility for that child. Another thing i think is happening is young mothers hve there parents pretty much raise there children
ReplyDeleteI was watching tv and saw a show called sixteen and pregnant you can talk about how having a kid can get you attention. and also there's a new show starting in january called teen mom's I thought you could get imformation from it! good luck and it sounds great.
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