It seems there is a quite a debate on teen pregnancy these days. It's been all over the media:
Jamie Lynn Spears' pregnancy.
The Gloucester teen pregnancy pact.
The very popular movie Juno (which I happened to love).
And a new article is reporting teen pregnancies are up for the first time in 15 years.
And of course, with something like teen pregnancy everyone is looking for something or someone to blame:
- the sexualized culture
- the recent attention pregnant girls have gotten in the media
- loss of "traditional family values"
- poor parenting
- poor access to birth control
- abstinence only education
- mixed messages sent to youth about sex
And all the while I am wondering -
what resources and help are really available to all these pregnant teens... and their children?
1 comments:
hi,
The rate of teen pregnancy is staggering across the nation. Many say it's the parents' fault, while others say it's simply a lack of teen pregnancy information available to parents and kids alike. In fact schools today don't spend much time in cultivating values in students.
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