As I read
Dinora's Blog of "Teen moms need help", I found
an article that Texas is one of the states that are leading high percent of teen pregnancies. Couples of teenagers facing several negativities such as lack of sex education, regrets, baby murders, disappointing to Parents, worries of financials, lost their plans, so on.
The article mention that this issue is the first time in 15 years and they are unsure why this happening this time. Statistically, "Sixty-three out of 1,000 girls become pregnant in Texas between the ages of 15 to 19 comparing to the national average is 43 out of every 1,000, which is a higher rate than many other countries."
Interestingly about what Dinora post in her blog that the Senate Bill 592 which has passed a preliminary vote, would apply to mothers ages 16 and older who are already mothers that they will give birth control methods to them without parent's permit. Somewhat, Dinora against the idea and present a good point that the teenagers already had sex and will repeat the sexual activities as well. She suggested why not place them into unwanted pregnancy. However, in my opinion, I somewhat disagreed. If the senate passed this bill and give out the birth control contraceptives to those teens, I think it is a great idea because first, teenagers may not afford it. Second, it is difficult to ask parents' permit but teenagers decided to have sex so that their decision and the birth control methods should be part of it. Third, it prevents them getting pregnancy again!
I would like to add something from what I learned during my teenage year. My school offered sex education course and explained every single birth control contraceptives so we can learn if we happen to be interested to use. In additional, we watched couple of films that demonstrated teen mothers and their experiences. The teen mothers explained her experiences of what they had been thru in negatives, positives, mistakes and regrets. We got impact from that and learned not to live their way. We learned from their mistakes by not using their mistakes to repeat in our lives. On the other hands, my concern those teenagers in 21st century could be very different generation and different concept of this.
One thing I do not understand, we are in 21st century and nowadays, those cultures in America are somewhat opening their minds to any issues. We should not be afraid to face to parents about this issue. Correct me wrong, maybe this is still little too early but right now, parents are starting to educating their children at the young age and hoping that generation would make a big different.