Teen Pregnancy: It Can’t Happen To My Family
We keep hearing about teen pregnancy issues. With the television show “Secret Life of the American Teenager,” the new upcoming movie January 23, 2010 on Lifetime Television called “The Pregnancy Pact” and Barbara Delinsky’s newly released book called “Not My Daughter.” Each of the aforementioned deal with teen pregnancy and the problems faced, not only for the teen, but the family as well. There is much concern over our teenagers exploring their sexuality and becoming pregnant when they are way to young. Is there anything that parents can do to prevent this?
Read full article here: http://www.examiner.com/x-33498-Long-Island-Parenting-Teens-Examiner~y2010m1d14-Teen-Pregnancy-It-Cant-Happen-To-My-Family
Teen pregnancy seems to be a very huge topic these days. Many television shows and movies focus on this. There aren’t many shows you can tune into these days that aren’t doing episodes relating to teen pregnancy. What does this tell our teens? Does it say to them well so many things on television are showing this so I guess maybe it’s not that bad? If your teens watch Sixteen and Pregnant or Teen Moms, plus the aforementioned just to name a few does this just say to them, oh well they get through it? Let me hear your thoughts on this and lets also move this to my group on Facebook. Join the group and lets talk about this: http://www.facebook.com/#/group.php?gid=248943333161&ref=mf
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Hi Cindy,
this is an interesting post, and
very relevant to these times.
thank you for sharing this
as it will be of interest to many others.
I have a 14 yo daughter. You have given me the motivation to start a dialouge with her re this topic. Thanks for your insight!
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Cindy that’s some wonderful insight. I hope that a lot of the parents take the advice you offer because it will make for far better educated teens. I wish more parents would realize that the responsibility for doing right by their children in having this dialog is their responsibility. Thanks hun!
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Hello Cindy lovely Blog, very worth while advice here, thanks for sharing, always helpful, will place a link on my blog xx
I watched the Teen Pact wqith my 15 year old daughter and discussed it at lenght during and afterwards. It showed her that having a child is not as the movies portray it, rather, it showed the real side of teen pregnancy. The likely-hood of attending college is diminished and the meer obtaining of a high school diplomia becomes a task in itself. I wish there were more movies showing the real side of teen pregnancy. It’s not only hard on the teen mother but the child as well.
Cindy, great post.
My struggle with the movie was that the abstinence mom was portrayed as old fashioned, behind the times and ridiculous in the notion that teens might be persuaded not to have sex. The agenda of the movie seemed to be “Teens are going to have sex so give them birth control.”
However, birth control being available wouldn’t have helped the teens who made the pact with each other. Their goal was to become pregnant. So, in that case, the only thing that would have helped them was education on abstinence and parenthood. They had no idea what they were asking for in getting pregnant, and no amount of free and available birth control would have stopped them.
I watched it with my 12-year old and thought it was good for her to see! When we talked about it afterward, she said that the teens in the movie just didn’t seem real to her. “No one I know would do something so stupid.” I disagree…there’s no telling what a teenager is capable of. They often don’t have a realistic enough view of permanent consequences. At least the movie portrayed the difficult realities of teen parenthood.
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Hi Cynthia,
My 17 year old nephew just had a close call a month ago…he was scared out of his mind. This topic hit close to home, thanks for putting together this info
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Cindy you give some excellent advice here I pray others learn from it. Afraid I was mother of a teen pregnancy – my daughter was 15. It’s a difficult situation for everyone involved.
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