Babies Having Babies:A Look at Factors Among African American and White Adolescent Females

Babies Having Babies
My cousin was barely seventeen; it was her last year of high school. She was 4.0-honor role student and in every club you could think of. All her hard work paid off and she was granted an almost full scholarship to attend Marquette University. Everyone knew she would be the big success of the family. She would be the one in the family to “make it big”…nothing could stop her…or so she thought. She became pregnant the summer before her senior year; it was a shock to the whole family. After all her dad was a pastor and mother a teacher, and with her reputation, well things like this don’t happen to people like that. However it did, the question is why. Why with many options (I.E. contraception) to prevent pregnancy, are so many babies…having babies?
Contraception
Contraception is defined as the deliberate prevention of conception or impregnation by any various drugs, techniques or devices; birth control. Effective Contraception use generally requires...