“Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman

It’s hard to raise a child when you’re still a child.

Teenage pregnancy is an issue that is rampant throughout the world and is a major concern due to the ill effects associated with teenager bearing children. This problem needs to be addressed and dealt with in a constructive manner.

Statistics shows that one of every ten babies is born to teenage mothers and two of every five teenage mothers were unexpected ones. This results to the continuous increase of mortality rate of infant.

Most victims of the circumstance force to give up education and face the huge economic hardships and suffer from physical, emotional and psychological stress.

Girls entering puberty often face “crisis in confidence” which makes them vulnerable to risky behavior, and these bad choices can have a devastating lifelong consequence. In quest for love and attention, these young people create new lives they are ill-prepared to care for. Enough attention from their parents is the best way to solve this problem. One of the most rewarding relationships is when parents step forward as their child’s best friend.

 The recent study reveals that sexual content on television and computer, play a role in increased rate of teen pregnancy. It results to inappropriate and a rather careless approach about the phenomenon of sex in general which leads the fact that teenagers look at sex very differently.

The parents aren't there time to time to monitor their child, so by this time, government are mostly responsible in limiting the violent scenes in televisions and eradicating obscene programs and the sites in the Internet.

For the complete fight against the issue, the unity of government and Catholic Church is also needed. Both should have one goal for the country’s development.

By this time, we should put teens’ future and their child on the center of attention because if the growth of pregnancy rate continues, not just the teenage mother, their child, their families will suffer but also the whole nation.