Quotes About Teen Pregnancy

#1. Hollywood has glorified adult premarital sex, and that is unhelpful if your goal is to reduce teen pregnancy and out-of-wedlock births.

Joe Lieberman

#2. Life is sexist. If you were to get pregnant, you're the one whose life changes. Nothing of significance changes for the boy. You're the one people whisper about. I've seen that show, Teen Moms. All those boys are worthless. Garbage!

Jenny Han

#3. She looked over the colored boxes of smiling women holding plastic sticks. Why isn't there a box showing a terrified teen?

Natalie Corbett Sampson

#4. Statistics show that teen pregnancy drops off significantly after age 2

MaryAnne Tebedo

#5. Each day is like a treasure box of gifts from God, just waiting to be opened. Open your gifts with excitement. You will find forgiveness attached to ribbons of joy. You will find love wrapped in sparkling gems.

Joan Clayton

#6. Teen pregnancy went way down in the '90s, and 75 percent of it was because of increased use of contraception.

Al Franken

#7. I'm so fascinated by the concept of teen pregnancy for some reason. Not that I condone it or promote it, but it's just a very real thing in our country and culture.

Leven Rambin

#8. Every thought should recall the ruin of a smile.

Emil Cioran

#9. Most people, almost everyone knows of a teen mom. Teen pregnancy rates are growing, and we need to bring awareness to that.

Madisen Beaty

#10. Again, he thought better of this tactic.
Sweet lady, there are those of us who sleep lying down, and those of us who sleep standing up. I can do both.

Cynthia Hand

#11. All my life I have had the utmost admiration for suicides. I have always considered them superior to me in every way.

Thomas Bernhard

#12. As the most religious country of the 18 surveyed, the U.S. also comes in with the highest rates for teen pregnancy and for gonorrhea and syphilis.

Gwynne Dyer

#13. No surgery in the world was going to offer him the particular history that went along with growing up female. No procedure was going to give him the joys or the terrors that must accompany pregnancy- that must, for teen girls, make sex a walk over Niagara Falls on a tightrope.

Chris Bohjalian

#14. I think if we were going to worry about teen pregnancy being glamorized, we should worry about shows like 'Teen Mom'. If people are going to want to have children at a young age because they see it on TV, I think that depends on the type of person you're dealing with.

Chelsea Kane

#15. And do you know who wrote much of the software that allows you to access the Internet? Bill Joy.

Malcolm Gladwell

#16. I hope that teen moms realize that their path to success still exists, and the only way to achieve it is to make the decision to go after it.

Alicia T. Bowens

#17. In general, higher rates of belief in and worship of a creator correlate with higher rates of homicide, juvenile and early adult mortality, venereal disease, teen pregnancy, and abortion.

Gregory S. Paul

#18. I t was a well-known fact among Christian homeschoolers that public
schools were bastions of gangs, drugs, teen pregnancy, rap music, pop culture, secular humanism, witchcraft, and body piercings.

Josh Sundquist

#19. We must begin to shift the emphasis of teen-age pregnancy to teen-age boys.

Gloria Steinem

#20. The argument that making contraceptives available to young people would prevent teen pregnancies is ridiculous. That's like offering a cookbook as a cure to people who are trying to lose weight.

Jerry Falwell

#21. It's about time we make the well-being of our young people more important than ideology and politics. As a country, we benefit from investing in their future by investing in teen pregnancy prevention.

Jane Fonda