02-22-2010, 02:48 PM
The cause for /any/ pregnancy is unprotected sex, or failure of the protection ;)
In all seriousness though, teen pregnancy isn't new.
Teenagers have been getting pregnant for hundreds of years, and I think the main problem is that we now have media to draw attention to it. Not to mention the fact that most western societies have higher standards of living, and in truth there is no evident purpose to get pregnant this early anymore.
However, it is the basic human instinct to want to have sex, feel good, and reproduce. I think by saying that the 'pregnancy rates' are increasing or decreasing is setting yourself up for a major contradiction to the human nature.
And think about this;
We're living on a planet with more than 6 billion people, and it's said that by 2020 there will be more than 10 billion. Isn't it a fair statement to make that with the more people there are on earth, the more common we're going to see teen pregnancies than we would fifty years ago where there were only about 3-4 billion?
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