For others, pregnancy is an accident or is caused by lack of knowledge about birth control. Even so, sex education in schools doesn't seem to be helping teens' awareness about pregnancy. Teenage mothers have half the lifetime earnings of women who postpone having children until age 20. Teen mothers are high in developing complications in pregnancy and childbirth. Many problems result from poor or no prenatal care.
Babies born to teen mothers are at high risk of being too small.
Low birth weight is associated with increased infant mortality, illness, and handicappingconditions. A study by Johns Hopkins University contends that neither fear of unwanted pregnancy nor contraceptive education have any appreciable effect on the risk of premarital pregnancy among teenagers. Designed to look, sound, and act as much like a real infant as possible, the doll gives teenagers a hands-on dose of reality and causes many of them to rethink the challenges of parenthood. Rather than telling teens about the difficulty of unwed teen parenthood, Baby Think It Over allows them to experience it for themselves. The doll contains an internal computer that cries loudly and unpredictably at intervals around the clock.