The sole purpose for birth control is it is the practice of prevention from an unsought pregnancy. Unwelcome pregnancies are arising on a day to day basis, and as a result, children are being born into families where they can either not afford to care for a child, or the child is mistreated because the parent never sought to have them in the first place. Generally, the age where birth control is sought out is in teenagers. Teenage girls are more likely to request birth control, due to the rising fact where sex is highly pressured in their age groups. Nearly one million teenage girls get pregnant every year in the U.S.