Teen pregnancy is a growing factor across the world, caused by many unfortunate actions. Teens feel the need to engage in sexual activities due to peer pressure, violence, and statutory rape. In some cases, teenagers end up giving birth to their babies and in other cases they abort them. To help adolescents understand the consequences and realities of teenage pregnancy, abstinence education and sex education can be introduced to point them in a better direction and help them decide on the appropriate outcome for their children. Many teenagers are conceiving a day that translates into as many births per day. This problem exists because of sexually active teenagers. Each year, approximately 2,600,000 teens become sexually active, a rate of 7,000 per day (Abstinence Education Reduces Teen Pregnancy 1). However, being sexually active isn't always fun. There are consequences involving teenagers engaging in sexual activities such as pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. In 2000, adolescents ages 15 to 17 experienced a high of 539,910 teen pregnancies (Number of Teen Pregnancies, 2000). While engaging in such high-risk behaviors, you are not only at risk of pregnancy but also at risk of sexually transmitted diseases. Such illnesses can affect adolescents' health and leave them ill, although many of them are treatable. Treatable STDs are just as dangerous as untreatable STDs because of the effect they have on your body. Furthermore, an STD carries emotional consequences for those involved, including depression and its medical and social effects (STDs are an international public health crisis). Teenage pregnancies greatly impact our society as a whole. Our economy is losing money paying for teenagers' doctors vi...... half the paper ......Teen mothers are at greater risk of depression and repeat pregnancies." TeenPregnancy and Parenting. Lisa Frohnapfel-Krueger . Detroit: GreenhavenPress, 2011. Current Controversies. Gale Opposing Views in Context. Web June 9, 2011. “Teens Use Abortions as Contraception.” Olivia Ferguson. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2011. In Question Opposing Viewpoints InContext Web May 27, 2011.Part I: Kathleen Sylvester and Jonathan O'Connell. Part II: Dale O'Leary Should Apply. “Adolescent Sexuality. Ed. TamaraL. Roleff. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2006. Opposing Views. Gale Opposed Viewpoints In Context. Web. 9 June 2011.