odds of teenage pregnancy

             Teenage pregnancy is a humongous ghost in American society. In spite of the orientation and counseling provided to adolescents, they keep having unsafe sex and getting involved in irresponsible intimate relations. Obviously, classmates and friends' insistence plays a great roll in this kind of behavior.
             According to the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP), more than 1 million teenage girls get pregnant every year. Although teen pregnancy has declined in recent years, in 1991 there was an alarming number that consisted of 60 in every 1,000 girls that gave birth that year. Nevertheless, thanks to social services work and orientation, teenage pregnancies decreased to 51 of every 1,000 in 1998. The African-American teens had the highest pregnancy reduction of almost a 23%.
             Babies born to teenage mothers are at higher risk to be abused by their young mothers. Medical complications like low birth weight, jaundice, mental retardation are pretty common in babies. Usually teen moms do not receive adequate medical attention during pregnancy which leads to frequent C-sections, difficult labor, high blood pressure and diabetes among other dangerous medical complications. Adolescents usually suffer poor nutrition and infectious diseases. They also must learn the consequences of the continuous use of tobacco, drugs and alcohol during pregnancy. In addition the uncertainty of the young mother role and the constant exigency of the child care can be overwhelming causing different emotional reactions like depression, anxiety as well as frustration. Some may not want their babies while others may want them just to please a member of the family. Others may see the baby as an idealized achievement, not measuring the real requirements and demands of the little human being. It is a fact that most girls who leave school to deliver their babies never come back. This prevents these
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