Teen Pregnancy, why won't anyone talk about it

The scare heard round the world. Whats the issue that most deny is even happening? Its the dramatic increase in teen pregnancy. The show Teen Mom shows the negative and positive things that can result from teens having unprotected sex and thus resulting in a baby. I have had personal experience with this topic. I may not have given physical birth to a baby but I had to carry around a fake baby for 6 months. I have had previous unprotected sex and didn't even think about it but because my parents made me do this project I think twice when I may be put into a situation. There is no way I am in anyway prepared to have a child at 17. To all parents reading this blog, I RECOMMEND you giving your child a fake baby for 6 months and have them come up with a schedule for the baby and have them find daycare off of a $8 hourly wage. This will have them think twice about having sex(period). Sure they will be pissed at first( I sure was) but in the long run you (the parents to them and potential grandparents) won't have to be taking care of a little one. Believe me once they realize how expensive they are, what hours they wake up in the middle of the night, and the fact that their 6 month old can't go to a football game or to the club, they won't want to put themselves in situations to where they could be a teen parent. 
HARD CORE FACTS:

• about 820,000 teens become pregnant each year. That means that 34% of teens will have at least one pregnancy before they turn 20.
• 79% of teens that become parents are unwed. That means not married and most likely single parents
• The main rise in the teen pregnancy rate is among girls younger than 15
• Close to 25% of teen moms have a second child within 2 years of the first birth
• The US spends on average 7 billion dollars each year due to teen pregnancy
• Only 1/3 of teen moms complete high school and receive their diplomas
• By 30, only 1.5% who had pregnancies as a teen will have their college degree
• 80% of unwed teen moms end up on welfare
• The daughters of teen moms are 22% more likely than their peers to become teen moms
• Sons of teen parents are 13% more likely than their peers to end up in prison
• The US has TWICE the teen pregnancy rate as Canada
• Both Germany and France have a teen pregnancy rate FOUR times lower than the US
• Japan's teen pregnancy rate is EIGHT times lower than that of the US
• 82% of teens feel that other teens shouldn't be sexually active
• 72% of teens agreed that other teens should have access to birth control if they choose to be sexually active
• 73% of teens feel that being a virgin shouldn't be embarrassing
• 58% of teens feel that other teens shouldn't be sexually active at all
• Fewer than one-half of teens in high school has had sex
• 67% of teens that have had sex wish they would've waited (60%-boys & 77% girls

These facts can be found on http://www.teenhelp.com/teen-pregnancy/teen-pregnancy-statistics.html 

So parents educate your kids about sex and stop turning your head the other way. Its happening lets stop ignoring it and face the facts. Teens want to have sex because they don't feel loved or they don't know how to have a healthy relationship. So to all the Dad's out there spend quality time with your daughters. Let her know how a man is supposed to treat her. Maybe then she won't be trying to look for love in all the wrong places. And Mom's stop trying to be her best friend and give her some advice worth repeating. She doesn't want a friend she wants someone who will hold her through her tears, fears, disappointments, and laughter but if you act like her friend what makes you think she's going to confide in you if your just going to give her the same advice as her friends. Parents be parents and stop trying to be their friends. There's a time for everything . So pay attention and know they times when she needs you the most. Teens are talking are you willing to listen?