I think one reason that so many teens are having children is because of lack of communication. if parents and people in general would openly talk to their kids then their kids wouldn't be so lost and wander around confused and lonely desperately seeking out for love and answers and security and sometimes that security comes from another person and that try and solidify that "love" and then something happens they get pregnant and its a scary thing. their teenagers-babies themselves about to have a baby, what to do?. some abort it out of fear and desperation to know allow their parents to know for fear of what the parent will do and the mystifying rath that the believe is coming, but if the communication was there then the fear wouldn't be so high. they would have an understanding and help the child bearing a child and maybe it wouldn't have happened in the first place because teen pregnancy is not the worst of being sexually active. this lack of communication in the homes and in the community leaves teens feeling alone and sometimes useless so the seek and yearn for a sense of worth and what better way than to feel like the most important person in the world than to have a innocent baby's life in your hands. a baby who feels you are amazing and the only important awesome person in his/her life. so they get pregnant willingly just to feel that void and the parents have the audacity to feel shocked and ashamed that their child has a child. well if you would talk to your daughter AND son then maybe you'd know how they'd feel and ya'll could work things out....maybe