tend to become teen mothers tend to be among the Black and Hispanic decent. Others tend to be

sexually assaulted or abused as children. Whether realized or not, teen pregnancy effects

everyone. It takes a toll on the taxpayers, the teens families, and the child. Teen pregnancy can

change the course of a person's life, as seen with Novalee Nation, in the book Where the Heart

Teens become pregnant for seemingly many reasons. "85% of White teens and 70% of

black teens said they had not wanted to have a baby at the time of conception"(Luker, Pg. 153).

Statistics indicate, that most teen pregnancies are accidental. Other teens seem to think it will

solve their problems, "While privileged people may see a detriment in a teenager becoming a

mother, these girls see it as a realistic improvement in their lives"(Thompson, Pg. 45)

According to figures published by the Children's Defense Fund, 50 percent of all

teenagers between the ages of fifteen and nineteen have had intercourse, as have four out of five

twenty-year- olds. It seems clear that a lot of teens-50 percent at present- can't or won't

entire town went to look for her. In the end, they all help build her own home without being

outside circumstances" to have an abortion. Husbands pushed for abortion the least; at only 9

Often pregnancy occurs not because teens can't obtain contraception, but because there

month of the first time they have intercourse. More than half will be pregnant within one year,

can not inform her parents, and the consent or notification law can be avoided.

People often talk of "getting swept away," or "not knowing what they were doing," as if,

visit to a clinic is for a pregnancy test. The danger is real: half of all unintended pregnancies

It is difficult to get reliable figures of the number of teenage boys who become fathers

even grandparents end up raising the child. It's wrong to look to one partner to

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