Contraception

Few teen make all the right choices. All the gods know I did not as a teen make all the right choices. I have two daughters, one concieved when I was 19.. I was too dammed young then to have been breeding but I thought it would be ok.
I haven't seen her father in 15 years, nor had a dime of the now 54,000$ in back support owed to me paid. Yes teen make bad choice but you know what? Its all part of learning and growing.
There is no reason to force a teen to start off adulthood early or in a disadvantaged position because she got pregnant.
That is abuse.

That little girl is a teen now, I know for a fact she has almost no chance of becoming pregnant but that doesn't mean she won't make mistakes, when she does we talk about them, see what we can do to correct them and what she learned from them.. same as my mother did for me.

Teens are not perfect.... Thank the Gods. All of Them.

But aren't you glad you have your wonderful daughter?
You seemed to have coped well with motherhood.

She wasn't forced to have sex - maybe - but our hypothetical teen was forced to give birth, and that's just as wrong as rape.

Yes Chick, I do thank both my gods for my daughter. That does not mean I will impose my concept of morality on anyone else though.
Personally I do not care if a woman aborts save for it being her choice to do. Only when it is a coerced abortion do I have issues with it.

Its not my job to moderate some other womans body. I know what choices were right for me.
I have one daughter.
I lost a son - still birth.
I aborted the pregnancy afterward.
I tried again and lost it to spontanous abortion aka 2nd trimester miscarriage.
I tried again with the same result.
I finally had the second child I wanted.

Another girl I call my Sunchild for her honey gold hair.
My eldest being my Moonchild for her ravens black locks.

I have never been a terrified as when I had my youngest, who is my pill baby, because the doctor flat told me I have I had a high chance of not surviving the pregnancy. Now mind you this was 1995 and we simply did not have the technology then to have a mid term premie live.
The drug that forces lungs to develope early came out a year after my son died.

Still for all that it is not my job to tell you what to do with your body. I wish more people realized that.

i have a daughter who i product of the pill and a son product of the withdrawal method. i concieved my 3rd child in the week i took out my iud as it was giving me problems.

i sometimes think what life would of been like without kids. i see that it would be a lonely life but with lots of freedom. this freedom definately appeals to me but obviously there is not much i can do now as i have my children.

i agree 100% that people who don't want kids should be intitled to a tubal. my husband was supposed to have a vasectomy after our second child was born but they denied him and i had three pregnancies in under 3 years. unfortunately my last child was born premature and passed away but it is still outrageous that they won't give him a vasectomy as he is only 23. i have the mirena coil now and feel pretty safe but now we have split he is terrified of getting his new partner pregnant and i think that's awful for him.

How about websites?

I would think that logically the body starts menstruating because it is ready to carry a child. If the mortality rate is high, could it be that the teen is physically capable of having a child, but does not attain adequate prenatal care (such as nutrition, dr's visits, etc.) and they don't do the 'right' things, such as quit smoking, drinking, etc.?

I'm not going to clutter up the page with large amounts of copy paste but if typing "teenage pregnancy" into your browser does not get you any of the 4,400,000 responses, literally,(( Search Results1 - 10 of about 4,400,000 for teen age pregnancy - 0.27 sec. )) that I got when I typed it into mine this could be a good place to start.

Teen Pregnancy

I'll go find information.

For the record, I never said that young teens were more likely to die than older women. I in fact tried to say that the risks are similar, not one larger than another. A fully physically mature adult woman between the ages of 18-30 is most likely to have a healthy child with little complications. Women older and women younger at at a higher risk of complications; that's all I said.