Informative speech: Teen Pregnancy

At young ages we all seem to become nurtures, by playing with baby dolls, and playing house with our siblings. So it is easy for us to say that as children we thought we knew what we were doing when it came to taking care of our dolls when we “thought” they needed some assistance. This was just our imagination though. We pretended in the act of taking care of child that was just plastic. At that age do we really imagine what life would be like if we had a real child already to tend to? Do we think about the money you’ll have to spend on bottles, diapers, and formula? Of course not. We’re children, but the problem is that teens are still children, and they are actually having children. You don’t just wake up as a 16 year old and decide you want to have a child, it often happens without any planning at all. Teens often don’t think that their perfect plan for life could ever take a detour. It’s easy for it to happen, and we should all be informed on the reasons why.
The first problem we are seeing is the lack of education on contraceptives, and sexually transmitted diseases. Teenagers are not receiving enough or none at all education on what contraceptives are and how sexually transmitted diseases can affect your life as well.
There are about 1,700 school-based health centers nationwide, and only about ⅓ --almost all of them high schools--provide contraceptives. Only ⅓, that is a very small portion that is receiving information at all. Sexual education is very important when it comes to these two things. Yet there are three states that still require parents to sign off their children receiving any sexual education in schools, which in many cases some teens are embarrassed to talk to their parents about it simply because their parents are not taking part in talking about it to their child. Although it parents should be the