When Children Have Children

Anger, denial, and guilt are just some of the common reactions that both the pregnant teenage girl and her family will experience. This is the why teenage pregnancy is normally adds crisis not only to he pregnant girl but also to her family as well.

One bad thing on those teenage girls who become pregnant is that most of them may not seek medical advices and care during the course of their pregnancy. Due to these facts, many of them would be in high risk of having medical complications and even decided to have an abortion.

It is essential to have proper medical care, special knowledge and understanding and education on the matters of infections, illness, nutrition, complications substance abuse to those pregnant adolescents.

On the other hand, teenage girls who become pregnant have many untoward emotional reactions. Some teenage girls may not want to have babies. Some may keep the baby to please another member of the family. Some may also want to continue the pregnancy because they found it idealistic to have one and may view it as an achievement but did not recognized their responsibilities as a mother.

There are also pregnant teenage women who want to have a baby to have someone to love but due to lack of experience in being a mother, the amount of care needed by the baby is not enough. Some also considered that having a baby is somewhat irritating because of the responsibilities they carry in to. Some may be anxious enough of what happened to them and to their babies in the future. Lastly, almost the entire of the unexpected pregnancy by these teenage girls will experienced so much depression to them.

Risk for neglecting and abusing those babies are common situations that a teenage girl could do. This is primarily due to that the responsibilities are not clear to these young mothers and they may become frustrated on the constant demand for taking care of their babies.

However, teenage pregnancy can be prevented only if the adults especially the parents of these young girls must have open communication and guidance regarding contraception, sexuality, and the responsibilities which is risky in intimate relationships and pregnancy.

A common fact today is that some of these teenage girls leave their schools to have babies and never come back because of guilt. With these kinds of situations, these teenage girls will loss the opportunities to have educations which are necessary for have a job fro survival in the near future.

Unwanted pregnancies to the adolescents may lead to two types of results. Together with there families, they will decide for the two available options whether they would continue it and have the baby to live or abort it to have less responsibilities will be in the near future.