Teenager: Difference between revisions

Some agecucks argue that teenage girls cannot give birth to healthy babies and have an extremely high risk of pregnancy complications or even death, saying that it's the most common cause of death among teen girls due to biological immaturity and an underdeveloped pelvis. The problem with this argument is that the vast majority of pregnant teens don't die from pregnancy and the reason why it might be the most common cause of death is because teenage girls in general rarely die, pregnant or not pregnant. For example, among some groups of people, the most common cause of death is suicide, but that doesn't mean that the vast majority of that particular group of people become suicidal. Also, experts on teen pregnancy don't have an agreement on whether it's caused by biological immaturity or socioeconomic factors like lack of prenatal care access and smoking while pregnant. Some studies show that biological immaturity is a factor even when controlling for socioeconomic factors like prenatal care and smoking and some show that biological immaturity is not a factor and that smoking or lack or prenatal care is the real problem. One study showed that with prenatal care and avoiding smoking while pregnant, complications among pregnant teens are significantly reduced but still a little more common than complications among women in their 20s. Nonetheless, multiple studies show that pregnant teens are only a little bit more likely to suffer from complications such as miscarriages, premature birth, low weight births, etc. (For example, it might be around 6% for women in their 20s and only 14% of teenage girls). Also, studies show that if a pregnant teen has good access to prenatal care, good nutrition and avoids smoking while pregnant or doing drugs while pregnant, she has a very high chance of giving birth to a healthy baby. Many pregnant teens, however, do not have access to prenatal care and lack necessary education and it's pretty common for them to smoke while pregnant, while it's rare for women in their 20s to smoke while pregnant. Additionally, studies show that pregnancy complications are more common among early teens (13 or 14), not older teens (15 to 19). Also, although the pelvis is 100% developed at ages 25 to 30, it's developed enough for childbirth in the late teens (in rare cases, early 20s but the vast majority of the time it's late teens). Being 100% developed at ages 25-30 doesn't mean 15-24 year olds are too young to get pregnant.

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