Why does it seem like there are a million teens in the world pregnant and giving up their babies...?

Lily

i have a friend who had an abortion recently
the reality of it hit me really hard...it was terrible

cantstopLinnyG

But the fact is that there are not millions of teens giving up their babies, and that's why they are in demand and fetch such a high price from infertile couples. Reality is exactly the opposite of what you said.

Felicita1

Most teens pregnant elsewhere in the world, outside of "Western" nations are married and keeping their babies. In Western nations, there has been a scare in the right-wing media and politics about the "crisis" of teen pregnancy, and that is a myth as teen pregnancy is not a crisis, bad for babies, bad for mothers, bad for society, or anything else like that. Recent *good* research has thrown out that myth that was based on old, bad, research that did not control for demographic variables.

Now, women are at their most fertile from ages 16-27. And there is a stigma against being a young mother. So often women now postpone having children until it is too late and their fertiility has declined. With this new epidemic of infertility, the demand to adopt white newborns has arose, and if a white newborn is not available, then couples begin to look at international adoption etc.

There is no reason not to support young motherhood socially and financially. It may allow women to have families who would not otherwise have them if they postponed conception.

DevonChaos

Hopefully they are owning up and keeping the babies or aborting. There aren't really that many giving up their babies. There will always be more people who want babies than ones who give them up.

Philippa

Actually in the UK there are far more people wanting to adopt newborns than there are mothers wanting to surrender and it is actually very hard to adopt newborns here.

Where on earth are you getting your information as it is grossly incorrect?

â™¥Tomâ™¥ (I'm a Girl)

Because teens keep their kids

â™£Lash Catâ™¥

Maybe some of the mothers decide not to go threw with the adoption

I am not sure but that could be one reason.

kitta

Most pregnant teenage mothers do not give up their babies.

Until the about 1970s, the most popular "solution" for the so-called problem of unmarried teen-age pregnancy was marriage. (actually, back then, it was just called "unwed pregnancy"..the fact that a person was a teenager didn't matter)

Nature designed mothers to be young. There wouldn't be "hundreds" of people on waiting lists, trying to adopt infants if people had children when they were young and fertile.

Adoption is not a solution for infertility.

eta:figures on adoption are not terribly accurate. And results do vary by race, and by year. During the "baby scoop era" begining with WW2, many "out of wedlock children were hidden within the family and informally adopted(raised by relatives but not in a formalised adoption). Stranger adoption was more common in white families than in other races: "Possibly as many as 70% of all white illegitimate children are given for adoption, but only between 3 and 5 per cent of the nonwhite illegitimate children are adopted."(from: Illegitimacy and Its Impact on the Aid to Dependent Children Program, Bureau of Public Assistance, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1960) This was compiled in a book edited by Gwendolyn Mink and Rickie Solinger, entitled: Welfare: A Documentary History of US Policy and Politics, p.177

BLW_KAM

It may seem that way, but it's not accurate. Here's some information:

"A variety of factors, including increased access to contraception, the legalization of abortion and changed social attitudes about unmarried parenting, have caused the number of white infants placed for adoption in the U.S. to decline dramatically. Between 1989 and 1995, 1.7 percent of children born to never-married white women were placed for adoption, compared to 19.3 percent before 1973. Among never-married black women, relinquishment rates have ranged from .2 percent to 1.5 percent.[4] "

So for the years 1989 - 1995, 98.3% of never-married white women and no more than 98.5% of never-married black women in the US raise their children.

The fact is there are many more people wanting to adopt infants than there are infants placed for adoption. This makes for long waiting lists.

grapesgum

There are not millions of teens giving up their babies. I think that most of them have figured out that it is not their responsibility to be brood mares for people who can't or won't have children biologically.

Yes, there are hundreds on lists waiting to adopt infants. That should never be a reason to interfere with the rights of others to control their medical choices.

Rad-Tech

Most pregnant teens either keep the baby or abort. I don't know where you get your info. Most pregnants folks refuse to go through the pregnancy process if they aren't going to keep their baby. Sad, but true.

Marnie B

I want to know where all these teens are, my husband & I have been waiting for almost 2 years to adopt, & we're hoping for a black baby, which we know are harder to place.If this was true, wouldnt we already have our baby?

tericajll

I've been reading yahoo question now for almost an hour and I am left speechless by the number of 11,12,13 year olds having and keeping babies. What has happened to the family? Every time I hear of these children having babies it breaks my heart. I am sad for them and all the things that they don't know. I wish that I tell so much. And I am sad for me and my husband and the couples like us that have waited and tired and waited some more for the this gift of a family that so few people treasure anymore. Those of us that are childless mothers must keep up the faith, one day it will be our turn.

AdoreHim

The people that are on waiting lists would not have to wait as long if 4,000 women a day in America alone did not abort. I know I will get thumbs down for this, and I know that people will also make the comment that adoption is never an option for abortion. I cannot understand how people can say that though. If the women cannot or will not raise their own child, there are 2 other options- abortion and adoption. That should not be too hard to figure out, should it?

justmelissa2

Adoption is so expensive and there is so much paperwork to be done. Not to mention the birth mother has so long to change her mind.

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