Teenage Parents

These days children are being born into families of a very young age. Teenage pregnancies are shooting up. Why is this though? Young mothers get a lot of help from the government, they can get houses paid for them, child benefit etc. They may actually be better off having a child than they would normally be, but this is surely just encouraging teenagers to not worry about education because if you have a child then everything will be sorted for you anyway. Kids need to be encouraged to use protection, not to carry on conceiving.

In 2009 it was revealed that a 15 year old girl had a baby with a 13 year old boy. This young boy was to be the youngest father in Britain. Such an accolade. It turns out that the baby wasn't this young lad named Alfie's child anyway. You may think oh that's not too bad then, but it turns out the real dad was still only 14. Click here for the full story.

Some people may say that schools need to educate better to prevent against youngsters having children. People need to start living their lives. When a child comes then you have to become more responsible, you lose a lot of your social life etc.

Having children at an early age can also be disastrous for the child because if the parents aren't ready to cope this can leave the child having a bad upbringing, or could lead to the child being placed into care and put up for adoption.

Jamie Lynn Spears (pictured above) who is Britney Spears' younger sister announced that she was pregnant when she was just 16 years old.

Ann Dunham was 18 years old when she have birth to the current U.S. President Barack Obama (pictured left). Obviously Obama had a good upbringing supported by a good family. This doesn't always happen, sometimes the child is neglected and you can hear some shocking stories.