When you get pregnant at a young age you have more responsibility than the average teen. Most teenage mothers drop out of school. Unfortunately we have consequences for having sex, no one says that sex is wrong, there are just to many side effects from having unprotected sex. How you protect yourself is the question. To have birth defects The problems.
Some problems are due to the teenager's phsical immaturity.
Poor nutrition, and other problems can occur if the child is not admitting to herself that she is pregnant. This only delays her and the child getting the proper care the both deserve. This cause the baby to be born prematurely or at low birth wieght, to die before their first bithday, to have trouble in school, trouble with the law, or becoming parents at a young age. We need to try and prevent the children of these teen mothers to protect themselves from getting pregnant or getting STD's. We need to target the young men and not just the young women.