Teen Pregnancies on the Rise With 111 Reported This Year

Teenage pregnancies are becoming a upsetting trend in the country based on the huge number of girls seeking help from the Welfare Department about their dilemma. As of April, the department has already seen 111 such cases. This number is a dramatic increase compared to the 131 cases throughout last year. In 2008, there were 107 teenage girls who got pregnant. They were placed at Taman Seri Puteri, a rehabilitation centre and shelter that provides training for youngsters, especially teenage girls who face social problems. The statistics provided by the Welfare Department are just the tip of the iceberg, according to MCA Public Ser­vices and Complaints Depart­ment head Datuk Michael Chong. He said that many cases have gone unreported, talking about how Malaysian families viewed the problem with great shame. They become lost and some even run away from home and some threw away their new born babies. He added that some of the teenagers opted for illegal abortions when they found out that they were pregnant. That is why it is very difficult to collect such data and many of them do not think about the consequences of their action. He said that teenagers slept with their boyfriends because of the notion that they were in love and he will not go to the police if the young couple decides to get married because he said that  it is very sad to see a young man going to jail because of this and risk losing his future and he would go to the police if there  is a case of rape.

I was shocked to see that the increasing rate of pregnant teenage girls. These girls should actually take responsibilities for their own action and not by solving the problem by abortion. You have already made a mistake, do not make it worse by aborting. There are a lot more ways to actually solve this problem, for example, give the baby to those who are married and can not have babies so that the baby would actually live. They are so many movies that are out now about teenage pregnancies but teenagers are not going against it but they are getting influence by it so the movies definitely does not help to stop this disturbing trend. Other than that, there is a song about this, I hope that teenage girls would actually learn something from it.

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