How fitting is it that Mother’s Day and teen Pregnancy Prevention Month are both in May. On Mother”s Day, we celebrate mothers for being mothers and during the entire month of May, we provide activities and programs to prevent teens from becoming mothers too soon.
For about 90 years in the United States, the second Sunday in May has been set aside to honor mothers, one of the most important days we celebrate. Many churches have special services in which they honor mothers of the congregation.
They usually present the oldest mother, youngest mother and the mother with the most children with a corsage. Restaurants will be packed, giving mom a reprieve from her kitchen. Mothers will be treated as queens and showered with all kinds of gifts, cards, candy, diamonds, flowers, jewelry, perfumes, and money.
For too many teens, Mother”s Day has come too soon. According to the D.C. Department of Health, State Center for Health Statistics, 852 teen girls between the ages of 15 and 19 became mothers in 2005; down from the previous year of 864 for the perfumes same age group.
At a time when many teen girls are going to school and completing homework assignments, going out with friends, talking on the telephone for hours, applying for colleges and universities; while others have taken on the mammoth task of child-rearing, one of the toughest jobs on earth, when they are yet children themselves.
It seems like only yesterday that teen mothers were little girls in pretty dresses with ribbons and bows in their hair and perfumes exhibited a carefree spirit as they played games and jumped rope in the school yard.
Adults must provide the inspiration, excitement and creative spark in teens that encourages them to delay pregnancy until they are adults. In other words, provide all teens with the tools for success that you would want for your own children.
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