Teen Pregnancy Quotes

“Astonishingly, the share of students who don't get education in contraceptives is going up, not down. The Trump administration even tried to cut off funding for a teen pregnancy prevention program (lawsuits forced it to continue that funding). What's confounding is that these same officials are often anti-abortion, yet they don't seem to understand that preventing unplanned pregnancies will reduce abortions. They believe that condoms will promote promiscuity, when condoms no more cause sex than umbrellas cause rain. These same officials then thunder about the irresponsibility of girls who get pregnant, oblivious to their own irresponsibility.”
― Nicholas D. Kristof, Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope

“Well, it probably won't live. They say the way her mama beat her she lucky to be alive herself.

She be lucky if it don't live. Bound to be the ugliest thing walking.

Can't help but be. Ought to be a law: two ugly people doubling up like that to make more ugly. Be better off in the ground.

Well, I wouldn't worry none. It be a miracle if it live.”
― Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

“Fewer teens having sex is one of the reasons behind what many see as one of the most positive youth trends in recent years: the teen birthrate hit an all-time low in 2015, cut by more than half since its modern peak in the early 1990s.”
― Jean M. Twenge, iGen: Why Today’s Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy--and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood--and What That Means for the Rest of Us

“She was a stupid slut for having a baby, and if she’d had an abortion, she also would’ve been a stupid slut. It was a game you could not win.”
― Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles

“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, Game Plan

“Well, the one positive thing about being a pregnant teen was that I was going to bust everyone’s expectations so badly that maybe I could finally start to be myself. No more lies, no more pretend.”
― Gaia B. Amman, Sex-O-S: The Tragicomic Adventure of an Italian Surviving the First Time

“Something about reproductive health makes politicians and local officials lose their reasoning faculties. State education officials and local school board members know that teen pregnancy is a huge problem, yet they often refuse to allow teaching to avoid it. Just eighteen states require schools to reach birth control, and only about half of American kids receive any classroom instruction in contraception before the first time they have sex, according to the Guttmacher Institute.”
― Nicholas D. Kristof, Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope

“Going to church does not equal living for Jesus. Church is part of the Christian life, but it's certainly not all of it. It can't be all of it.”
― Angela Elwell Hunt

“She stood up, went to the window by the door, stared mournfully out at the day. The rain had stopped. the sun had come out, burning heat through the trees, sucking the moisture right back up into the brilliant blue prairie sky, She saw the way this fierce naked light hit the empty street. She saw the sky with its thin line of evaporating clouds and tried to think about herself in the future. But no image would come. ... Nothing. The emptiness of it all filled her with dread.”
― Martha Brooks, True Confessions of a Heartless Girl

“It’s important to think of what it means to powerfully and successfully rise to challenges, and all that it requires: determination, clarity, and steering clear of victim mentality”
― Emma R. Wilson, Not a Statistic: Emma Wilson's Story of Determination Through Tragedy