| Being a teenager is a troubling time. While adjusting to | | | | the good news department, the number of teen |
| all the changes going on both in your biology and your | | | | pregnancies occurring in the United States has been |
| responsibilities, making the right decisions can be hard | | | | declining since the early nineties. These decreases are |
| when it comes to topics such as relationships. In this | | | | found across the board, with age, marital status, and |
| article, we'll offer some statistics regarding teenage | | | | ethnicity not being a significant factor in the decrease, |
| relationships so that you can better understand exactly | | | | representing a uniform drop. Studies show that this |
| what's in store for the average teenager who is | | | | drop in teen pregnancy can be due to the greater use |
| dating.While domestic violence is a terrible aspect of | | | | of contraceptives by teens. Lowered rates of sexual |
| adult relationships, few adults realize that this problem | | | | activity amongst adolescents also are a factor in the |
| also occurs in their sons and daughters. A study | | | | declining rate. However, the teen pregnancy rate in the |
| conducted by "Children Now" in 1995 saw that a full 89 | | | | United States is still one of the highest rates in any |
| percent of teens have been in dating relationships and | | | | industrialized nation. The use of contraceptives needs |
| a whopping 40 percent of all teenagers know | | | | to be encouraged by all parties, regardless of religion |
| someone their age that was beaten or abused by a | | | | or creed. If a teenager has sex unprotected, they run |
| boyfriend in a relationship. This is a serious problem that | | | | a risk of getting pregnant that is approximately |
| every parent needs to watch out for to ensure the | | | | 90%.One aspect of teenage pregnancy that is |
| health and safety of their children. Another study, | | | | frightening is the number of adult males that are having |
| conducted by Silverman, Raj, Mucci and Hathaway in | | | | sexual relationships with teenage females. In cases |
| 2001 showed that young women who were in | | | | where a girl aged 15 to 17 gets pregnant, over 50% of |
| relationships that involved violence were more likely to | | | | the time, an adult male is the father. A study |
| abuse substances, develop eating disorders, conduct | | | | conducted in California showed that seven out of ten |
| risky sexual behaviors, get pregnant, and even commit | | | | teenage births were caused by men aged twenty or |
| suicide. As you can see, domestic violence in | | | | above. |
| teenagers is very worrisome for a host of reasons.In | | | | |