Teen Pregnancies, Std's, And Their Consequences

Teen Pregnancies, STD's, and Their Consequences
Allison Dry
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July 21, 2010
Camisha Williams Teen Pregnancies, STD's, and Their Consequences Remember being a teenager and the cool thing to do was to smoke cigarettes? Or to act like you were with the candy sticks that had the red tips on them? Well now we all know that smoking is not the cool thing to do, but now there is something new that everyone thinks is the cool thing to do. Teen pregnancies are a big issue right now. 1/3 of women are pregnant before the age of 20(Livestrong , 2010). Pregnancy rates have changed drastically over the years. Teenagers are marrying and raising children at a young age was accepted in and around the 1920s. Later it was accepted to be in their
After reading the statistic that 1/3 of women get pregnant before the age of 20(Livestrong.com, 2009), readers, including myself, begin to realize the importance of taking precautions to prevent more unwanted pregnancies from happening. To prevent unplanned and unnecessary pregnancies there are multiple different types of contraceptives teenagers and adults can use. The pill is the most basic birth control every woman can use. Although many women are switching to the Mirena and Nuva Ring, which is to be inserted, and releases hormones into the bloodstream. The Nuva Ring or Mirena can be much easier to use then taking a pill every day. Taking a pill each day can be very stressful if accidently miss taking one a day, so then it may not be working properly. Many teenagers that may be taking the precautions and taking birth control, may not be taking it properly. If the pill is not took properly then she is also risking an unwanted pregnancy. If women are taking the birth control pill they must take the pill regularly around the same time every day, to get the full effect of the birth control. Women must take birth control properly to get the best results. Many teenagers are not thinking of all of the risks of unprotected sex and how much easier it is to go to the doctor and get birth control to prevent anything unwanted to happen. Also may be some teenagers that may be participating
No crying, not even once but was not going around acting like it was the best thing, either. Feeling like every one may ridicule myself, if people knew about the pregnancy, so mainly kept it to thyself. Although it did not take every one long to notice, living in a small town, rumors spread fast. If someone knows a secret, then those people believes it is okay to tell everyone, so it takes a week for the entire town to discover something that is not really THAT big of a deal and is not his or hers business to share. If it would have been until the pregnancy started taking its toll, no one would have known until six or seven months along! The older women who saw me in public always stared at myself in a negative way many times. The older women would say phrases such as, "Kids are going around having kids." That would never get to myself, knowing that it does not matter what others think. None of the older women would have thought to themselves that just maybe, myself being pregnant at that age, is not the best thing to do or have happen. The older women never once thought maybe the pregnant teenagers know that they had made a mistake. Some teenagers need help by others and make sure they know that it is not something that anyone should want. When pregnant there are many have a large amount of sacrifices to make. For example, say that some teens may be cheerleaders or in any