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Teen Pregnancy Teenage Pregnancy is one of the biggest problems that America has to date. Currently, the United States has one of the highest teen pregnancy rates in the western industrialized world. Four in every ten American girls will get pregnant at least once before they turn twenty. Approximately seven hundred fifty thousand American teenage girls get pregnant every year resulting in about four hundred twenty thousand teen births (The National Campaign). In today’s society teenage pregnancy is a serious issue and is continuously increasing problem in the United States. To understand why the teen pregnancy rate is so high in the U.S., first researchers have to analyze why this is so. Most teenage girls don 't plan to get pregnant, but many do regardless. This can be for a number of reasons: not using contraceptives, not being properly informed about sexual education, rape, wanting the company of another, and many other various reasons. Dealing with the responsibility of being a parent is one of the hardest tasks to take on. Becoming a parent involves emotion, compassion, dedication, strength, knowledge, protectiveness, and being able to financially support the child which a child or adolescent him/herself may not be able to provide. Of course, adolescent pregnancy results from sex. Typically, mindless teenagers and adolescents have sex for the very first time at the age of seventeen. Statistics show and prove that teens in America are less likely to use contraceptives generally than teens in Europe who are sexually active. Not only this, but they use the most effective methods of contraceptives therefore they have a substantially less amount of pregnancy rates than America. In the picture below, you can blatantly see that adolescence is a time of rapid change; teens are clearly more likely to have sex in the prime of their adolescent years which is between the ages of fifteen to nineteen (as aforementioned). This proves that the

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