Teen Pregnancy Currently teen pregnancy is a major problem facing our nation. It causes social and a vast amount of personal problems. Social problems include a higher rate of high school dropouts, government spending is increased for social programs for parenting teens such as Medicaid, welfare, and food stamps. All of these problems not only affect the teen parent/parents, but the nation as a whole. Individual problems can be disastrous for the future teen …showed first 75 words of 301 total…

…showed last 75 words of 301 total…is wrong. Education through the community can be gained usually at no cost from local churches and other community agencies such as Planned Parenting. Parents play the most crucial role in the prevention of teen pregnancy. Parents talking to their children, educating them, and teaching them effective morals can prevent teen pregnancy. The community and government offices can have an influence by providing free contraceptives, information, and reproductive counseling for the fight against teen pregnancy.