Peer Pressure

At a high school in Massachuetts 17 girls, four times the usual number, all 16 and younger got pregnant at the same time. According to the principal, the girls all made a pact to get pregnant and have the babies at around the same time. Just a couple months before, two officals at the high school health center resigned to protest the local hospital's refusal to support a proposal to distribute contraceptives to young kids at the school with out a parent's consent.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,370063,00.html

Boys are more likely to be pressured into having sex before they are ready to. Most of the boys believe that waiting to have sex is a good idea, but few actually do wait. Usually, they boys get pressured by their other male friends. Girls usually do no feel as pressured to have sex but they definitley still are pressured. Some kids, boys and girls, just feel like since everyone else is doing it they might as well do it too. Well, then they do it and the next thing they know, they are standing there look at their new baby.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200305/peer-pressure-and-teen-sex


There are many different pressures to having sex, espcially when you are a teenager. Some people believe that school are teaching a "stay abstinent" view of teenage sex instead of the truth and how to protect yourself, others believe it's the media and there are many other factors. Many girls think that once they have been dating their boyfriend for a while it's okay to start being sexually active and they don't really think to themselves, hey in a month I could be pregnant, but maybe to prevent teenage pregnancies, boys and girls do need to start thinking like that.