My topic is teen pregnancy, teen pregnancy is a serious issue because it affects the teens education in every type of way. The United States has the highest rate of teen pregnancy the United Kingdom is the second highest. Over the years, teen pregnancy has become more of an issue. Teen pregnancy is an issue in our community that has to be addressed because we have to educate the teenagers. Understanding teen pregnancy is imperative because to take appropriate measures and we need to educate the teens in our community.

This issue affects the United States, the reason why it affects the united states it’s because it has the highest rate of teen pregnancy comparing to a couple other states. According to, graphs the United States has the highest rate of teen pregnancy the second would be the United Kingdom(www.mainefamilyplanning.org). This matters because less than 2% of teen moms earn a college degree by age 30 . In addition it can also be an issue because more than half of all mothers on welfare had their first child as a teenager, in fact two thirds of families begun by a young unmarried mother are poor . Therefore the situation has to be solved into having protected sex and being more careful.

Teen Pregnancy is believed to be an issue to the teen dads they don’t always marry the mother of their child. For instance 8 out of 10 teen dads don’t marry the mother of their child. This is matters because not the teen dad not always chooses to support their child. In addition it can also be an issue to the mother,  about 25% of teen moms have a second child within 24 months of their first baby. Therefore teens who become pregnant have a higher risk for a medical problems such as toxemia,  hypertension, severe anemia,and also premature delivery.

Lastly, there are facilities to help teen mothers with situations like these. According to this website www.womenhealth.org . This shows that there are places to help teen pregnancy, there are also other places to help educate teens that are into situations like these.

Although some may say that teen pregnancy isn’t common. It is clear that teen pregnancy is common and is a serious situation especially with teens in high school which some may experience peer pressure.