Teen Moms

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Most teens don’t believe it can happen to them. In this case, teen father often abandon their child’s mom in fear that they can’t provide for their child. This leaves the teen mom with less social and financial support. It is believed that single family households results in their child becoming a teen mother as well, especially if their mom didn’t finish high school and lack giving her child the education and support talk on how to prevent repeating her mother’s actions. In addition, despite what parents may believe, they have a huge impact on their child’s life because their children depend on them. Parents tend to lack supervision over their teen and lack showing them support. The quality of parents’ relationships with their teenagers can make a difference in the decisions that their teen make about sex. It is proven that, parents who supervise and monitor their teen’s action are more likely to be older when they first have sex, to have fewer partners, to use contraception, and to be less at-risk for pregnancy. In addition, Teens even say that parents influence their …show more content…

Only 40 percent of teen moms finish high school. When teen moms don’t finish high school, they do not move on to a higher education. Goals that they once may have had, is now on the back burner if they ever get around to it. They are forced to seek jobs that are not well paying just to support their child and themselves. In fact, a child's academic performance is likely higher if he or she has highly educated parents, and lower if the child has less educated parents (Huffington post). Furthermore, Only 5 percent of young teen mothers complete at least two years of college by age 30 and less than 2 percent obtain a college degree (SCAA). The lack of parental education is affecting their child and parents who fall to teen pregnancy lack the sex education for themselves which lacks them educating their teen on

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