Nothing wrong with waiting until you’re financially stable and ready to begin a family. As Americans, we should be more concerned about our educational system. We have too many students that don’t read at grade level nor are they proficient in mathematics. I hate to sound like Debbie Downer, but we are the most illiterate developed country on the planet and I’m not talking about immigrants, I am referring to native born Americans. If the teen pregnancy rate is much lower now then we should be focusing on fine tuning our educational system. As a side note, I am from Alabama, I’ve lived here my entire life. In the middle class and affluent school districts the teen pregnancy rate is practically nonexistent and there is actually quite a lot of middle class with some affluent school systems. On the other hand, the poverty stricken areas have the worst teenage pregnancy rates. These are school districts that we need to be lifting up. This is the reason why I’m royally pissed at Donald Trump for completely gutting the Department of Education. We need to be defiantly REBUILDING the Department of Education.
It's all about control. If you can force/coerce a teen into motherhood, she rarely completes her education and therefore cannot enter a career and make her own money. She will never achieve independence, which is what conservatives want. They want women to be possessions of men with no other options.
I worked in adolescent health for years and the plain and stark truth (greatly substantiated by research) is that a teen mom’s life is affected for 18-20 years (education, career, finances, mental and physical health) after she has a child (or children, and the clock resets for each birth) while the teen father, depending on his level of participation, may experience discomfort for 2-3 years. The system is set up for teen fathers largely to have a “blip” (no disrespect to responsible teen fathers) and move forward with their lives. Teen mothers, on the other hand, have a decades-long hard slog, no matter how much they love their children.
Nothing wrong with waiting until you’re financially stable and ready to begin a family. As Americans, we should be more concerned about our educational system. We have too many students that don’t read at grade level nor are they proficient in mathematics. I hate to sound like Debbie Downer, but we are the most illiterate developed country on the planet and I’m not talking about immigrants, I am referring to native born Americans. If the teen pregnancy rate is much lower now then we should be focusing on fine tuning our educational system. As a side note, I am from Alabama, I’ve lived here my entire life. In the middle class and affluent school districts the teen pregnancy rate is practically nonexistent and there is actually quite a lot of middle class with some affluent school systems. On the other hand, the poverty stricken areas have the worst teenage pregnancy rates. These are school districts that we need to be lifting up. This is the reason why I’m royally pissed at Donald Trump for completely gutting the Department of Education. We need to be defiantly REBUILDING the Department of Education.
It's all about control. If you can force/coerce a teen into motherhood, she rarely completes her education and therefore cannot enter a career and make her own money. She will never achieve independence, which is what conservatives want. They want women to be possessions of men with no other options.
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I worked in adolescent health for years and the plain and stark truth (greatly substantiated by research) is that a teen mom’s life is affected for 18-20 years (education, career, finances, mental and physical health) after she has a child (or children, and the clock resets for each birth) while the teen father, depending on his level of participation, may experience discomfort for 2-3 years. The system is set up for teen fathers largely to have a “blip” (no disrespect to responsible teen fathers) and move forward with their lives. Teen mothers, on the other hand, have a decades-long hard slog, no matter how much they love their children.