Pros And Cons Of Birth Control

Some teenage girls between the ages 13 to 18 do not like talking to their parents about sex or anything that involves sex. They feel that their parents will not be able to trust them or will take their trust away from them. Teenage girls should be allowed to obtain birth control without the permission of their parents. Birth control helps reduce teen pregnancies, gives them responsibilities and choices, and allowed sex education in school. Having to use birth control is not always about teenage girls having sex; it helps a girl to regulate her menstrual period, and can even help with internal health issues such as tumors inside the uterus, ulcers, or ovarian cysts. Some parents only look at the negative side of birth control and instantly think

Some teenage girls are sexually active and birth control reduces teen pregnancy. Sexually active teenage girls do not have to go about making decision on rather to deliver a baby, giving a baby up for adoption, or even having an abortion. If more teenage girls would use birth control, the teen pregnancy rate would be lower. The lack of using birth control increases the chance of many unplanned pregnancies. Girls that use birth control are 90 percent less likely to become pregnant. According to Kathryn Kost and Stanley Henshaw, the rate of teenage pregnancy has declined to its lowest level in 40 years, from 116.9 pregnancies per 1,000 women aged 15-19 to 57.4 per 1,000 women (Kost et al., 3). 86 percent of the decline in teenage pregnancy comes from some kind of birth control usage (Santelli). Abstinence is the most effective and powerful way to prevent pregnancy. Most teenage girls that become pregnant are one of those teenagers that their parent did not have that time to talk to their daughter or the teenage girl went to her parents and told her about birth control and she simply told her “no”. According to Rebecca Wind, 60 percent young teenage girls said that their parents knew they were using a clinic for sexual health services because the parents had suggested it (Wind, 1). Also 18 percent of the teenage girls that were surveyed said that if their parents had to be acknowledged that they were using

Some teenage girls use birth control not just to practice safe sex, eliminate teenage pregnancy, but to help with health problems. Parents should allow their teenage girls that mother daughter talk and help them understand from the mother point of view and the daughter point of view and that it is not all about sex but it is to protect. It is only right that teenage girls be allowed to receive birth control without their parents’ permission. Teenage girls feel that they want to take on responsibilities and handle adult situations to become a better adult, and learn from their own mistakes and others. If parents would sit down and acknowledge a talk with teenagers it could change their lives and make them think more on sex. Health is a big issue; so, if being on birth control helps regulate teenage girls body, the parents should understand that and stand beside their daughter. Birth control is for a good cause and doing the research of all the different types of birth control and understanding will help parents appreciate it and say thank you for protecting their teenage girls. Teenage girls have to make hard decisions and choices about things such as pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases, school, adoption, abortion, sex, and health when their life is interrupted by one of those things that could have been avoided. It is sad that they have to stop some things in their life to be