An odd wiew on the source of teenage pregnancy?
I was listening to a few girls that i work with talk and one has a 15 year old daughtor who is expecting. The thought another one of the women had was that a big source of teenage pregnancys was not only a lack of education on the topic of sex, but also that as small children girls are encouraged to have babys as soon as possible because of all the baby dolls that the parents give them. I have known my friends daughter since she was born and this does make sense in her case because when she was little she always carried around one baby doll in paticular. I did how ever think that this was an odd veiw on why many teenage girls end up pregnant. I wanted to know other peoples veiws on this reason and some veiws on why many teenage girls are pregnant. Please no rude or offensive answers i am not a supporter of teenage pregnancys but i do know that when it happends it happends and there isent much these girls can do about it and they dont need other people being ignorent to them.
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I think it is a lack of education on the teens’ part. Parents need to be more proactive in what their kids are learning about sex. I don’t think giving a little girl a baby doll is predisposing her to teen pregnancy.
teen-pregnancy is wrong. they all get pregnant on accident and there are a few weirdos who are like 13 and want to get pregnant. But teens just have sex for fun and then accidentely get pregnant, in most cases. others try (which is sick).
Just because a little girl plays with baby dolls that doesn’t mean she’s going to have a baby when she’s a teen.
I think the increase in teen pregnancy has to do with a combination of lack of parenting and a general over-sexualization of young kids (and it’s getting younger and younger.)
Not every child that plays with dolls ends up having a baby as a teenager. It is much more complicated I think than the toys you play with.
I have known all kinds of families of all sorts of education levels, money status, family composition that a teenager ends up pregnant. Some of these girls had well educated parents who did not start having kids until their 30s.
Maybe the difference is some teens are abstinent? Maybe some teens use birth control?
Its possible. I’m 15 and I remember all the baby dolls I had. It made me want kids really really bad, but I know I have to wait in order to give them the best life. I don’t think I would go as far as to blame the baby dolls though. That could possibly be to blame for those girls who actually mean to get pregnant as a teenager. Although most of the time it is due to lack of knowledge about birth control methods, and ignorance. I like your perspective on this, I never even thought of that! Great question.
i think that most kids aren’t safe and don’t think nothing will happen to them, they don’t understand the care and everything it takes to take care of another child.
Little girls have been given dolls since time began, pretty much. When the only sex education came from the parents, in prior times, there were very few out of wedlock births (since most pregnancies came to term before widespread abortion), so that throws out the “education” argument. Very few people these days will accept a morality/religious argument..The explosion in teenage pregnancies is from a change in society’s moral parameters, not the doll. Figure..parents rarely buy their boys toy guns any more, so using the same argument in reverse, there should be no gun violence….Wha?…did I say that?…
I had a few Barbies, yet I have never dyed my hair blonde.
I think a lot of the problems that so many girls face are caused by a lack of education and openness of communication with their parents. I think so many parents shy away from having sex talks or drug talks with their kids. It isn’t enough to tell a kid “this is how babies are made”, they need to learn how to use contraceptive, and if the teen is adamant about having sex, than mom or dad should put her on birth control pills or something.
Teens need to learn how to have safe sex, i don’t think abstinence only education works. I also do not like little dolls and things like that (didn’t enjoy them when I was little either) because I think they make kids want to be mommies, just like your friend mentioned.
I hope this helped, I just think that an open-on going conversation with parents about being safe is important. Having one talk at the age of 12 isn’t enough. Also, if a girl is taught to respect her body and if she and her family believe and reinforce the idea that she has the potential to do anything with her life (become a lawyer, a teacher or whatever) she will realize that there are so many things she can do before having a kid.
Knowledge and believing you can have a great career can convince a girl to do whatever she can to prevent getting pregnant so she can go to college and enjoy having a great career before settling down and having a family. If she realizes this she’ll realize how hard it is to be a teen mother (especially if the dad isn’t in the picture)