Top 5 Teen Pregnancy Movies

Teenage is the condition where they have high curiosity about everything, one of them is curiosity about sex. It cannot be denied that in this phase, teenagers start to have courtship. Thus, through this courtship their curiosity about sexual is paid. However, this situation is run to be really bad and get some risks of teenage pregnancy. This is happened because most of teenagers around 15 to 18 years old do not have much knowledge about the linkages of sex and pregnancy. Teen pregnancy is also represented in 5 teen pregnancy movies which is describing about teenage romance and curiosity about sex.

1. Juno 

This is a movie directed by Jason Reitman and written by Diablo Cody. The main character is played by Ellen Page, Juno as a teenager, 16 years old who has independent thought about her teen pregnancy. Juno starts to have a sex with her friend. In the first step she decides to do abortion, but she changes her mind and makes a plan to keep the pregnancy. She has a plan to adopt her baby to others when the baby birth later. By perforce, she tells her pregnancy to her father and step mother and tell about her plan of adoption. Paulie actually still love with Juno, but Juno refuses to show her love to Paulie.

2. Fifteen and Pregnant 

This is a one of best 5 teen pregnant movies which is based on true story about Tina Spangler, 15 year old who pregnant in teenage life. The story is opened with Tina who has sex with her boyfriend, Ray. In her life, she faces in some choices between, abortion, lonely, abortion, single parent or exhausting life. Her boyfriend leaves her with another girl and her mother is changed. She lives in broken home and she finds that her world already ruined. However, her pregnancy can reunite her family to be as one and she finally found her goal of life.

3. Crossroads 

It tells about three young girls who start the prom at the midnight for graduation party. After the graduation, the tings are changed between them. One is engaged, one is little missing perfect and the other one is pregnant outcast. BAD luck for Lucy when she come home and meet her mother, she know that she gave birth of pregnant before married. Her mother is actually does want Lucy to birth.

4. Precious 

This is story about overweight teen girl, Claireece who give birth a baby in Down’s syndrome. She is raped by her father, while her mother abuses her and she already get pregnant for the second time. She is dropped out of the school and placed in alternative school. After living in that place, she finally finds a hope of life.

5. Saved! 

This is one of 5 teen pregnancy movies that quite well known, a story of Mary and her boyfriend, she love each other when enters to the high school. After having sex, she finds that she is pregnant, unfortunately Dean sends to faraway place of his parent. However, the shocking moment that she gets is when her boyfriend, Dead tells that he may be a gay. Her pregnancy makes her questioning about life, judgmental and faith.

Teen Pregnancy Facts

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Pregnancy is a kind of gift for those married couple, but what if pregnancy occurs to teen whose are not ready yet as physically and mentally? This is it the tragedy that happened in this day, teen pregnancy becomes plague for adolescents because free sex. Teen pregnancy facts show that in The US there are 3 of 10 girls are pregnant before 20, as accumulated there will be more than 700.000 pregnancies in a year. This tragedy will be more tragic when thinking about the impact of teen pregnancy. Teens must be fear about pregnancy, because they are not ready to be a mother and fear about the family, moreover their world also will be changed drastically.

Teenage is a period when sexual desire increase, but it is too simple if this teen pregnancy is happened because there is no contraception. The facts show that teen pregnancy is happened because it involves some social problem and complicated emotion. Some researches argue that teen pregnancy happened because of some reasons; take a look the reasons below :

1. Broken Home 

When a girl is in incomplete family, there will be an emotion where she will get any some escape to look for comfort. Moreover, if a girl who stays in broken home, she must be need the character of father who can protect her.

2. Rape

This incident will result in trauma and uncontrolled emotion. The effect of rape also impacted mentally, girl becomes inferior and threatened because of sexual disorder.

3. Sex Knowledge

The other reason of teenage pregnancy is big curiosity without sufficient knowledge about sex. In fact, most of teenage do not know about the linkages of pregnancy and sex, teenage do not know about what should be anticipated of sexual activity or courtship.

Teen Pregnancy Facts and Statistics

Teen pregnancy facts that are declared in this article are the result of research in America to some teenagers, but actually the facts are represented about the condition and the fact of teenage pregnancy around the world. The first fact is declared above that 3 or 10 teenage are pregnant fewer than 20. The second is around 40% teen moms are under 18, it is because in 15 to 17 years old teenage in The US already have a sexual intercourse. Through this fact is also known that teenage under 18 already dropped out of the school. Then, almost 80% boys who impregnate the girls are unwilling to take responsibility. Among married teenage, there will be just 30% can survive in marriage.

The kids which come from teenage parents actually experience torture, it is because teenage parents has unstable emotion and do not have much knowledge about parenting. The other teen pregnancy facts show that teenage is commonly gave birth in premature, so that it risks of death, mental retardation, dyslexia or respiratory chronic problem. Then, the other fact also shows that higher abortion rate in teenagers. This fact is about lack of mental readiness. In conclusion, it can be known that sex is not about fun, but it is about responsibility of a person.