E.+Persuasive+Research+Essay

“Despite the recently declining teen pregnancy rates, 4 in 10 teenage girls get pregnant at least once before they reach the age of 20, resulting in more than 900,000 teen pregnancies a year. At this level, the United States has the highest rate of teen pregnancy in the fully industrialized world” (National). More underage girls in this generation are starting to have children. However, there are several ways to prevent teen pregnancy. Teenage girls should not get pregnant because, underage moms will not be successful, and young adults are not physically and emotionally fit to have children.

Young adults who decide to have or get pregnant are less likely to be successful. “Less than one-third of teens who begin their families before the age of 18 never earn a high school diploma” (National). Teen moms will not be able to live out their lives as teenagers and experience everything a teen needs to experience such as going to parties, attending school and living a care-free lifestyle and even have a good relationship, I say that because most guys do not want to date a girl who has a baby. Teenagers who do decide to have a kid do not get the support they need or want from their friends and family. Most girls lose their friends because their friends do not want to be involved with a baby at their age.

Underage mothers are not emotionally fit to have children. Teen mothers will have to depend on their parents for everything. Underage girls will not be able to pay for the babies’ diapers, clothes, food etc. because more than likely they will not have a job. They also got to rely on their parents for a place to live. Teen mothers will most likely have to raise the baby on their own because they will be a single parent the father of the baby will not want that responsibility. “The growth in single-parent families remains the single most important reason for increased poverty among children over the last twenty years, as documented in the 1998 Economic Report of the President. Out-of-wedlock childbearing (as opposed to divorce) is currently the driving force behind the growth in the number of single parents, and half of first out-of-wedlock births are to teens. Therefore, reducing teen pregnancy and child-bearing is an obvious place to anchor serious efforts to reduce poverty in future generations” (National). Being a single parent it will cause the teenager mother to go into depression because they will not have the help and support they need from their significant other.

Teenage Girls are also not physically fit to have children. There are many health risks that may be involved for not only the mother but for the baby.” Young adolescents (particularly those under 15) experience medical problems among adolescent mothers include poor weight gain, pregnancy- induced hypertension, anemia, sexually transmitted diseases, and cephalopelvic disportion” (National). Also, having a baby at a young age will affect the body in major ways. The young girl may not be able to lose the baby weight and she might feel uncomfortable with herself which may cause the mother to not want to go out and do things that normal teens would do like go hang out with her friends or even go shopping.

Some teenagers may think that they are ready to have children. “By the age of 18, a young woman’s body is well prepared for childbearing. Young men are equally qualified to do their part. Both may have better success at the enterprise than they would in later years “(Mathewes-Green). Teenagers and their bodies are not ready to have children at a young age because they are not mature enough to handle having a child. So do me a favor do not have sex at a young age, there is a chance you will get pregnant.