Teenage girls having open conversations with their mothers and fathers in regards to protected sex supplemented with sex education and birth control will have a huge impact on saving teenage from ruining their future with unwanted and untimely pregnancies. Teenage boys are not the target of teenage pregnancies because culture deem them as subceptible in experimenting with sex and being the innovator when it comes to sexual advances. Teenage girls are available to teenage boys to sow their seeds and it is of much important that these girls do not fall into trappings of a boy's confession of love or manipulative moves to get her to be a part of his "growing up experiences."

Teenage boys are not the target of teenage sex because of culture's propensity to see the girl as the one who can say no or take the proper precautions to prevent a teenage pregnancy. Boys are culturally inclined to seek sex at an early age and as the girl is the sought after partner in which to "experiment;" should be the one to say no or to use other means to prevent teenage pregnancy. Needless to say, boys can not get pregnant, anatomically, and the girls must protect themselves from procreation, which is what happens with unprotected sex.

It is thought that the roles of women and men have changed in society with the women rights movement but little has changed in the arena of boys seeking girls for sex as their playground. Women and girls must guard themselves against violations of their bodies for the sake of a man's enjoyment without any resultant responsibility. Sexually experimentation begins early for teenage boys and girls must be taught and knowledgeable of the consequences of their actions.

Women are still paid less than men when working the same jobs. Women are approached differently and sometimes in a good way and sometime in a bad way because of their gender. There is no argument that women and men are different and girls need to learn early on that their bodies are meant to be cherished by someone who truly loves them. Love at the teenage stage can be serious but for the most part the game being played is that of boys seeing how far sexually they can get with girls. The further the girl allows him to go, means that she has the greatest potential to get pregnant. Once pregnant, as the child is conceived within the womb, the child is with the girl and looks to her family for care. Teenage pregnancies places a burden on the family as the teenage boy may not be in a position to handle the responsibility of raising a child. Teenage girls are in no position to raise a child alone, in most cases, and must learn how to say no or to not engage in unprotected sex to secure a decent future for themselves.

Culture has not changed in the wake of the women's quest to equalize salaries and wages and not as a direct resultant factor but for illustration, the woman must fend for herself especially in the teenage year to protect herself from pregnancy. American culture optimizes that fathers will take care of their children but expects the mother to perform the job of nurturing. Teenage fathers are not financially able to care for children born when they are attending middle  school. You will see many more teenage mothers walking pushing strollers than teenage fathers because that is just the way of American culture but teenage girls can change this situation. There is talk of change and equality but the responsibility of taking care of a teenage child still has the mother of the teenage mother caring for the child while the teenage boy continues his schooling. Boys are not the target of teenage pregnancies. The teenage girl is the one who can pull the stops on teenage pregnancy and must say no or protect herself for a rewarding future.

The real event is the birth of a child and the only real way to stop teen age pregnancy is to have the teenage girl to say no or to use protection from pregnancy. The courts have changed favorably with the child support system having unwed mothers get help from the fathers. But boys are having sex with girls when they are only eleven years old. Eleven year old boys can not work and the responsibility of raising the child falls on the family of the girl who got pregnant.

For the most part girls are more accountable for teenage pregnancies because they can stop sexual advances by saying no or having protection. American culture does not place that responsibility on the teenage boy who at that age is more or less experimenting with sex. It is up to the teenage girl to understand that for the most part, feelings of love at that age is pure infatuation. Teenage girls should not ruin their future by submitting to a boy who may be saying what she wants to hear to get his sexual satisfaction.

The women's movement has worked to get more women job equalization but the financial divide continue with the male making over 30% more doing the same type of work. As culture has not made the strides to make an equal partnership in the workplace where the woman would have to work to support a child, she should not put herself in a position at an early age to put her future in peril with a teenage pregnancy. That is why it is very important for mothers not to punish their daughters but to educate and inform them of protection that is available to protect them. Boys are not the target of teenage pregnancies.  Teenage pregnancy that can change a girl's or a young daughter's future not for the better but for the worse.