The news spoke of an increase in teen pregnancies just the other day. It is a sad fact of life that with all of the educational tools that this country has, that the problem of teen pregnancies continues.
It is hard raising children in today’s world. It is even harder to do it when you are a young (often single) parent yourself. Education is the key to earning higher pay when you enter the workforce. The drop out rate among young women who find themselves pregnant is staggering. The emotional, spiritual, and financial toll is hard to overlook.
Today, all over the news is the headline that Jaime Lynn Spears is pregnant. She is all of 16. She met the father of her unborn child in church. It underscores that even with sex education, religious training, strong family bonds as well as the availability of multiple birth control methods; teen pregnancy still happens. (more…)
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