Teenage PregnancyAlthough people look down on girls who get pregnant at such a young age and differ from when you are at least thirty years old, they are similar in many ways. For example, how much you will spend on a child, whether or not you will be a single mother. Also there are a lot of different things between teenage girls and girls who have finished college and know what they want to do for the rest of their lives. Girls capable of taking care of a child. Maybe they're not married or something, but you don't have to be married to have a baby. Before you have a baby, finish school and know that you are stable enough to take care of another life other than your own. There are many things to prepare before the baby. If they are sexually abused at a young age, girls begin having intercourse before the age of sixteen (Witwer). Early sex is often due to stress. If girls are stressed at home they turn to sex. Most of the time these girls turn to sex with older men. They will internalize the victimization, which will result in depression, anxiety, and self-harm. They may resort to unprotected sex, which increases their chances of becoming pregnant, and they may take drugs. Girls with this history are more likely to have a partner who is twice their age. They may engage in prostitution, such as having sex for shelter, drugs, or money. They do this kind of thing to support their children, but in the end it hurts them and their children. The effects of trauma, particularly sexual trauma, on the physical, psychological, and social well-being of victims were first explored in the early 1970s. (Harner). Teenage mothers are at risk of taking drugs, running away, joining a gang and dropping out of school (De Genna). If they sexually abuse…half of the paper…etc. 2013 Henshaw, Stanley K. “Abortion and Teen Pregnancy Statistics by State, 1992.” Family Planning Perspectives 29.3 (1997): 115-22. ProQuest. Network. November 25, 2013Rochman, Hazel. “Adolescent Sex and Pregnancy.” The Book List 108.15 (2012): 50. ProQuest. Network. December 6, 2013. Sawhill, Isabel V. “Adolescent Sex, Pregnancy, and Nonmarital Births.” Gender Issues 23.4 (2006): 48-59. Proquest. Network. December 5, 2013. Swierzewski, Stanley J. “Risks of Teen Pregnancy.” February 27, 2014. Web.Widom, Cathy Spatz, and Joseph B. Kuhns. “Childhood Victimization and Consequent Risk of Promiscuity, Prostitution, and Teenage Pregnancy: A Potential Stallion.” American Journal of Public Health 86.11 (1996): 1607-12. ProQuest. Network. November 25, 2013. Witwer, M. (1997). Early sexual activity, but not childhood sexual abuse, increases the odds of teen pregnancy. Perspectives on family planning, 29(4), 195-6