How do you think we can stop all these teenage girls from getting pregnant?
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ANSWERS: 61
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Teach them about self control.
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We can't do anything to stop it. The media needs to stop promoting promiscuity, and being a 'pimp' and pole dancing and all that crap.
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Hey I got DR'd for saying Jamie Lynn Spears wasn`t a good role model. Maybe that is a symptom?
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Birth control and home school and no closing the bedroom doors
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I think instead of stopping it, we could find work arounds, whenever we prohibit something, it tends to have a negative effect and more extreme effect. So perhaps we could start by making condoms available at a cheaper price and then run campaigns that show what single-parenting especially for teens looks like. Most of them end up on welfare or seek alternative help. We could also give the women more options by making adoption more flexible, for some of these women, their life will be destroyed if abortion is not possible for them and plus the child will not have a worthy mother, child hood.
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Give them (girls and guys) a little baby for 48 hours with supervision (but not allowed to help) and give them a tiny taste of what it's like.
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Stop with this bullshit abstinence only education and give away condoms at schools.
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teach the old view of waiting til you are completly ready until the kid gets old enough (maybe 14ish?) then teach about birth control and being responsible if they choose to be sexually active. i know a lot of people who would have benefitted from their parents teaching them about safe sex as opposed to complete abstinence.
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Kill them when they have their periods....that would, at least, be extraordinarily effective.
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Hand out condoms.
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Sit them down in a Labor and delivery room for 24 hrs straight to watch the "miracle" of life. Just make sure the woman giving birth is doing it naturally with no pain killers. That should change quite a few minds.
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That sex before marriage does not always turn out to be the best thing.
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Start teaching them and boys when they're young about the dangers of teen pregnancy-----the teaching starts in the home and should begin when kids are very young. This teaching should be continuous and horror stories of teen pregnancy should be discussed all the time, along with similar stories of drug use, vandalism, and other teenage problems.
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Hysterectomy at birth
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Raise the age of consent back up to 21 nationally where it belongs and then arrest any teenager caught having sex or known to be sexually active.
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I'm thinking teeagers are going to have sex no matter what the law is or what you try to do to stop them. They are going to find a way. I would think the best way to deal with that would be to educate them about the dangers of unsafe sex and how to prevent pregnancy.
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It cant be stopped. But things can be done to lower like abolishing all this "abstaince only education" and teach about proper birth control and parents being more respobsible.
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I believe sexual education should be taught since elementary school.
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By supplying teenage boys with condoms, and teenage girls with birth control. Teenage sex will always be an issue in all generations. I think the schools that have the program that pairs up girls and boys and gives them the baby doll to look after for 2 weeks is helping. I saw it on a program on tv and when they saw how really demanding looking after a child was many were changing their minds,and considering birth control.Parents have to be responsible too. As much as you would like to think your child will choose to abstain from sex it is irresponsible for parents to pretend it won't happen. Some parents feel that arming your child with birth control is giving them permission to go out and do as they wish. I feel providing them with the knowledge and the preventive devices is making your child responsible for their own actions.If you choose to go with trust you will likely be helping them make other decisions after it is too late.
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talk about it at home...i guess the reason most kids are so curious about it is because for most families sex is a taboo subject...awareness and education should start from the home...
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We can't. All we can do is educate kids as best as we can about sex...in other words, parents should talk to their kids about it and make sure to emphasize on the "use condoms" part. No one ever listened to the abstinence program back in school...but I'm sure the program is going to keep going.
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i am a teenage mum i was 17 when pregnant and 18 whn i became a mum and wouldnt change my son for the world but if i had someone who was a teen mum come into school and tell me about the two hour feeding,teething ect i would of thought about protection alot more im not saying that i dont like being a mum i love my son to pieces but i do know now that i was to young and i had to grow up alot sooner than most....i really think that there should be a class for teenage mums to go into schools and explain to them that it isnt all cute clothes,cuddles and kisses it is for life
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Get rid of abstinence-only sex education!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Its absolutely worthless. We need a program that actually teaches safe sex and contraception choices. THEN we would see less pregnant teens.
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Anal sex
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I'm 17, I have NEVER EVER had unprotected sex, im on birthcontrol use a condom. Oh and I dont see why everyone looks down and teen pregnancies, if we stop them shouldnt we stop older women from having kids? All people seem to say is "Oh that irresponsible little whore" nobody ever takes into consideration that maybe this girl was raped by her boyfriend, or friend. And for those people who think teens cant take care of kids that is wrong, it truly depends on how mature the girl/guy is. My brother died in a car accident 4 days after his girlfriend gave birth and left him with the baby. I have been taking care of him since then almost 2 years, I graduated on time, I babysit 2 other babies on wednesdays and fridays and work 2 evenings a week. So stop all this bullshit about teens being unable to care for children, age doesnt decide parenting skills.
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I've always wondered why people talk about teen pregnancy like it's common. Throughout my four years in high school, I only saw one girl who was pregenant. Really, it's not like every teenage girl is getting knocked up. Most are pretty responsiable.
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By them keeping their legs closed and by boys stop raping them.
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give the girls jail time
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yes indeed!stop going down with the "wait until marriage" and all the crap because less than 10% of the population actually wait until they get married to have sex...this includes all sexual things (fingering,anal,oral,and of course intercourse) and of course one thing leads to another! Soooooo in shool, PAST OUT CONDOMS! Don't put a limit to how many you past out! Give em out for free! Parents put your daughers on birth control! I think when they get their periods, give em a shot every six months til their 18. Just be safe from "mistakes". If you PRE plan...you PREvent! REmember that!
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Convents, chastity belts, electric fences, and the death penalty for anyone caught fornicating. Not that those are viable, or even desirable options, but you can't STOP things absolutely as long as you allow reasonable freedom. Proper education - both sex education and self respect - are the best you can do.
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super glue their knees together
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there is no way to stop it, you can only educate them about the dangers of sex and hope they make the right choices.
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Sex Education is very important,even though,it will not make sone not to fall victim of pregnancy.But it will reduce teenage pregnancy
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Chasisty belt with a padlock and throw away the keys. Yes that was a joke... or is it?
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sacrifice all the teenage boys at birth to the gods of infertility
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give birth to less stupid people. including their parents.
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Majority of these answers are saying to give out condoms & birth control & have 'responsible parents'.. but I had all of that. I was taking bc, used a condom & had parents trying to convince me to not have sex.. no matter what, teenagers are going to do it. As much as I wish I would of waited & not had sex.. there is nothing anyone can do anymore. I had safe sex & still got pregnant.. so nothing will stop them from getting pregnant if they decided to have sex. Most of the time when parents say don't do it.. the teens feel they should do it more.
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oka... how can we stop mothers who are on drugs from having kids? how can we stop people who abuse their kids have 3 more? most teenage girls are better parents than grown ass women. so ask peopl that. how can you stop that shit. im 17 i have a child and im married and might i add im a wonderful mother. so before you go judging teenage mothers go look at the other mothers who are in there 20's and 30's.
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you cant
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Give them a baby to take care of 24/7! Or better yet, give them a toddler to take care of .... or even a teenager!! That would do it.
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I think education strait up, I took a class in highschool that was all about dealing with children and babies, (sorry don't recall the name of it) but what we had was an electronic baby that could not be shut off, you had to figure out what it wanted (ie to be fed, burped diaper changed, just to be held slep w/e) and this thing was a pain in the ass! and best part the new ones register every thing responce time trauma etc. so if they abuse the babie it wil be found out :P So I sugest this be a maditory exersize for all teens let them deal with it for at least a week...
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Have 'em fixed
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1. Outlaw Abortion. If they have to KEEP the babies they're having, they'll think twice before having sex. (This is not a 100% means, and some will likely go black-market abortion, which is dangerous.) 2. Encourage marriage at a younger age. Historically, women have married and started families in their teens. It's only the last hundred years or two which have seen people waiting nearly twice as long to do that. Fighting the natural urge to have sex and have kids isn't necessarily the healthiest and best solution! Just expect them to grow up, too.
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Now boys, put your weiners away..:)
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TURN OF THE HORNEY BUTTON!
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Teach them about birth control. Abolish the myths about how not to get pregnant when having sex. Another good way is to give them a real life baby that is sick and screaming all night long.
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Let them look after naughty kids for a few days...that should do the trick!!!!
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Seriously, abortion, education, and all that aside, kids are going to have sex one way or another, unless you treat them like Samuel Jackson in Black snake moan. They will have sex if they want to bad enough, kids are kids. Just like we all did and the people before us, the only thing you can do is say "I told you so" and help them out when they make a mistake.
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birth control teaching
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Education them. Tell them about birthcontrol and make it easily available. That or superglue their knees together.
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Place 'The pill' between their knees and tell them to hold it there, if they drop it, they get pregnant :o)
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I think it's mainly because of media and parents not taking responsibility to protect there children, think on it every girl sees a chick flick and then they decide they want that, no matter what the cost is, even if it means sleeping with the guy to make him stay. I'm a guy and I can look at people in my school and I see most all of the guys dating younger girls(like senior a with a freshmen) so they can sleep with the girl easier, and then the girls they even find older guys more interesting so its just a bad situation. But I think it ultimately comes down to your standards, what you believe is right and wrong, the world is a messed up place and this stuff happens and to find the answer is going to take alot of effort from everyone.
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Talking to them...talking sense would maybe do just fine...
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I'm throwing my vote in for the chastity belt! :-)
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you can't really do much about it because you can't always watch them. They can have sex in almost any environment and you would have never even though about it. Trust me......
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Nothings going to stop today youths from falling pregnant & having babies. Either they do it out of sheer bordem or from peer pressure of the other girls having babies. I know when i was in high school within 4 months 6 girls in my class were all pregnant to different guys, they seen it as a "fashion" statement to have a baby. Thats just not on!! No matter how much you try to protect your kids from pregnancy there're still going to break all the rules & most are likely to end up pregnant!!
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You can't, but medically accurate sex education and easy access to contraceptives will go a long way toward reducing teen pregnancy.
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pull out. duh.
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unless you want to take every teenage girl in the world and put a metal cage around their vagina...its not gunna happen
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Get on the pill use condoms that WONT split!!! & to be carful! even though some teens just dont give a damn until their actually pregnant!
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sometimes, you cant do anything. For instance, when i was 13 i was raped. but now i have a beautiful daughter and i wouldn't trade her for the world.
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