If the mother is using drugs, the baby could have a birth defect. The baby could have Sickle Cell. The mother would probably put the baby up for adoption. The mother would have to drop out of school, and the mother would not be able to get her degree, or she would leave the baby with her mother. When you are a mother, you do not get time with friends like you used to do, and you will have to buy food for the baby, and your child would feel funny without a father figure.
Teens are under constant pressure from today's society to be sexually active.
We see sexuality and promiscuity encouraged in virtually all aspects of contemporary culture. The general message we see promoted on television and in the music we listen to, is that casual sex without long-term commitments is fun, freeing, and satisfying, and that anyone who does not express their sexuality freely must be repressed, sick, or prudish. The media has left out an important message, however, about casual sexual activity and promiscuity among youths. The media, which is so eager to educate America's youth about sex, has not even attempted to educate them of the risks they run every time they engage in premarital sex. Medical studies have also shown that, compared to older women, female adolescents and young women are more susceptible to cervical infections such as gonorrhea and chlamydial infection, because the cervix of female adolescents and young women is especially sensitive to certain sexually transmitted organisms3.