The Pregnancy Show - Teen Pregnancy, Part 1

Nina: We are back and now we are talking about something very serious and that is teen pregnancies which is still surprisingly enough in our day and age quite rampant here in United States and unfortunately it is something that should and can be avoided if taken proper precautions and it is unfortunate in 2006 we don’t have enough information out there to tell the children to use the precautions and maybe to avoid having sex altogether until you are a little older to understand the ramifications of what it can lead to. Kendall: That’s true, but the truth -- let’s just call a spade a spade even if a girl decides that you have to find a boy who will -- it is a group deal -- Nina: The boys are willing and they are ready having it. Kendall: Because a lot of these girls -- for sure, they are raging hormones they don’t suffer the most immediate consequences of what happens and -- Nina: It kind of obliterates rationale. Kendall: If they are girls are thinking straight because they want to make their boyfriends happy. You should learn to make yourself happy, but in truth that’s not always so easy. Nina: There is a lot of peer pressure -- Kendall: There is peer pressure. Nina: Their peer pressure is so overwhelming for these kids they go to school, they go to school [Voice overlap] Nina: And this girl and that girl and the girls feel if that they don’t have sex they are not going to be part of a conversation of the girlfriends and the guys that are out there. Kendall: Okay, but keep in mind if you do have sex early you could be part of the conversation for years to come. I always tell my own daughter don’t do anything that you don’t want to hear about twenty from now. Nina: She is very young, you are starting the– Kendall: I am telling her -- I am telling her about teen pregnancy rather I am talking about like a maniac but that’s just another thing. The truth is don’t do anything that you don’t want to hear about because some where way down the road someone will be having a talk show and they will say, remember my friend blah, blah, blah and story is back – Nina: But you know what Kendall unfortunately you watch the movies out there, sex is everywhere and it is thrown in your face via the magazines and the internet, you Google anything and it is there for you and the movies and there is so much pressure for kids to do at a such an early age, why? Let the kids enjoy themselves by going to movies and hanging out at the malls, doing things a change. Kendall: They could, but -- 16 year old boy with raging hormone. Nina: But if you do -- Kendall: I have never been -- but I hear they rage. Nina: But if you do have sex don’t be delusion onto thinking that you are not going to get right pregnant because you are always -- the kids think that they weren’t failed. Well now I can from my own teenagers, they have a distorted sense of feeling that nothing and I won’t get in the car and they have car accidents, I will drive faster and it won’t happen to me, it will be the other guy, no eventually it is someone’s else kid, someone does get into car accidents, does get pregnant and so therefore kids out there don’t think that you are invincible. It can and will happen to you. Use protection if you are going to have sex, speak to your doctor, speak to your mom and she will get you the protection – Kendall: But otherwise you find a situation I am only 15 and I am pregnant and thinking of an abortion. Nina: Okay, interesting. Kendall: Abortion is a complicated issue. I don’t think we are going to answer that, but my point is I mean I personally think women particularly your age it is not a bad idea, but it is a complicated question and before you decide to have an abortion you have to sit and think it through and you really need to talk to somebody older. Nina: Speak to your mom. The mom has to know and the mom will understand once she gets over the initial shock and the sadness because when your child is pregnant you are sad that her life is now going to change avoidably. There is nothing in her life that will be the same whether she does keep the baby or gives it up for adoption or has an abortion, but her life will change, she will never be the innocent child she wants her. Kendall: And the truth is, it is easy to talk about abortion, I suspect that having one is a whole different cattle of fish. Lots of us believe in them, but put up against the wall. It is a really difficult decision, it is not a decision that should be made lightly, we are not going to say for against, but when we get back -- Nina: When we get back I am going to tell you a little story, we will be right back.