I agree with Paul Sagar on this:
In the universe I inhabit, pregnancy outside of IVF clinics requires two people, male and female. Assuming that most teenage girls are having sex with teenage boys, the preoccupation with “teenage mothers” is thus striking. Why don’t we hear more about “teenage fathers”?
The fact that we hear rarely about teenage fathers is a proof that in most parts of the world, when a teenage girl gets pregnant she is the sole culprit and the boy involved, often he is a man who likes young girls, has no obligations and is left off the hook. I have always found it to be an abomination for example than in many schools, pregnant girls are ostracized when they start showing when the soon to be father can go on with life and his teenage years as if nothing happened because it is normal for him to have sex. To put it bluntly, teenage mothers still have to live with the stigma that they were "naughty," had sex too early and must therefore suffer the consequences to show other little girls not to follow the same path.


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