Teenage Pregnancy
Today, teenagers experience sexuality and respond to what their feelings are in often an irresponsible way. In their hearts and minds they often times feel that they’re in love, when it is usually infatuation. Young men and women are struggling with the many different urges of their bodies, with one another, and not to mention the least with the social, cultural, and moral assumptions of this new generation. Youths are proclaiming their worries, confusions and fears. Unwed teenage mothers represent a large percentage of the poverty rate in the United States with the African American women representing the majority according to Sandra S. Smith of the US department of the Health and Human services. She states that the birthrates for teenagers in the United States declined for the third consecutive year but remains at a record high level for the African American teens.Teenagers now must decide weather to engage in sexual activity or abstain, use contraception, have an abortion, keep the baby or put it up for adoption. All of these teenagers share a particular way of life and it’s different possibilities and responsibilities. The way things are going with the unwed mothers and the poverty level, we need to
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Approximate Word count = 1302
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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