One in every ten new mothers in the US is a teenage mother. Did
you know that the US has the highest rate of teenage pregnancy
in the entire developing world? With 745,000 girls under the age
of 20 getting pregnant each year, what is happening in the US
that is perpetuating this problem? The rate of teen pregnancies
in developing countries is much higher and expectedly so. There
is a lack of sex health education and birth control options like
condoms and contraceptives. In the United States though, there
are numerous ways and places to get condoms and birth control
pills, for free in some cases. And high school curriculums
include sex ed for senior students. Safe sex is promoted by a
number of organizations including Planned Parenthood. But for
some strange over $38 billion taxpayer dollars are still going
to support and fund teen childbearing. Fifty-nine percent of
teenage girls who get pregnant welcome their pregnancy and
decide to have their baby. Teen pregnancies are more common in
some cultural backgroun