Teen Pregnancy.
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Posted By: Chamieka House on July 29, 2008 What do YOU feel is the real reason more African American girls are getting pregnant, dropping out of school, and in the Welfare life more than ever these days? Can we really blame it on lack of education and/or knowledge with all the information that is out now-days? If you enjoyed this article, Join BlackInAmerica.com today for similar content and opportunities via email! |
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Chamieka House
From Madison, WI University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee class of 2012 Member Since July 2008 |
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Teen Pregnancy is rising because the majority of these young girls don't respect thier bodies and they don't have a real understanding of what having a baby means. Also, they are putting too much trust in thier boyfriends who either don't want to have the baby, or leave soon after the baby is born for various reasons. We also have a lack of parental involvement. How can you be so out of touch that your teenage daughter becomes pregnant right under your nose? It is a shared responsibility between the daughter, the boyfriend, and the parent. It's not lack of eductation. It's lack of willingness to pursue that education.
Tuesday, July 29th 2008 at 11:39PM |
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I agree with you, Kevin. Far too many of our girls are having s*x too soon and then becoming mothers as a consequence. They're unprepared and the guys they hooked up with are not committed, let alone around to be a father. This is one of the most crippling aspects of the black culture today. And many of us want to continue to defend this behavior, make it ok, and try to force everyone else to celebrate it. No child is a mistake, but females and males decide when they come into the world, no matter how splintered, dysfunctional and blight the relationship or environment. I say after s*x that birth's a child, the attention should turn to that child. The two parents, along with extended family, need to love, guide and support that child to adulthood and pray he/she does not repeat this cycle. The problem is that these children are forced to live a handicapped life of fatherlessness and in an evironment of poverty with little defense against the environmental lures. Because of grown folks, these children are at risk of being trouble children at school, at home and in the community. And then grown folks want to beat them, be cruel to them and eventually jail them because they are destined to express their hurt and anger over their family circumstance. As a culture, we need to stop enabling this behavior. We can love the female and male who created this pain, but we need to hate this behavior. It hurts our children...our future.
Wednesday, July 30th 2008 at 2:13AM |
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Hey Lisa, I guess I can only go off of what I see around here, and for the most part. Most teen girls I know DONT finish high school, let alone college and futures don't look bright. If you are bound(sorry to say) it doesn't necessarily make ypung girls be motivated to better themselves. Some urban-teen girls dont have people to look up too, or parents to look up too.. so they find it within someone else. I believe its more like searching for "self-worth" more than anything, and that happen to get pregnant.. or so Ive heard that in various ways from friends and/or girls I know. Wednesday, July 30th 2008 at 4:55AM |
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I attribute it to people not ensuring that teens take responsibility for their actions and simply let them do what they want to do. Less supervision in the home, lack of communication between parents and children, readily available s*xual content on the internet and television. It just seems that s*x and pregnancy is a joke and that the mind set of "I'll be ok, I'll just get help with the baby and go on some kind of assistance". Teens need to believe, not just know, that it's no ok to simply pop out babies. It's not cute no matter how pretty the clothes, furniture and baby pictures are. Our girls need to feel the love is not derived from s*x, but from loving themselves, and our boys need to know that a real man is not judged by who's knocked up the most girls. Self respect and respecting our bodies.
Wednesday, July 30th 2008 at 10:27AM |
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