Teen Pregnancy Video Tells Stories of Young Moms
Too Young Educational DVD Highlights Hardships of Teenage Mothers
Sep 11, 2009
According to statistics from the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, almost fifty percent of teens have never considered how a pregnancy would affect their lives. The Too Young teen pregnancy video offers a glimpse into the challenging life of teenage mothers and can support other pregnancy prevention measures.
What the Teen Pregnancy Video Offers Teens
This video shows and tells of teenage mothers who are too young to be parents, too young for healthy babies and too young to support a family. Stories of young moms are told through personal accounts from the eyes, words and voices of teenage mothers. Teens who watch the video will hear real world examples that support the statistics about teen parents, numbers that may be startling to teenagers.
Teen will learn facts such as babies born to teenage mothers have lower birth weights and two out of three teen moms don’t graduate high school. Hearing the stories of young moms who are teen parents sometimes sends a stronger message about pregnancy prevention than do messages from parents and adults.
What the Teen Pregnancy Video Offers to Parents
The stories of young moms in the Too Young video will hopefully be a wake up call to parents. Often parents have a tough time believing that their child is at risk of becoming a teen parent. Some parents of teenagers choose a tactic of only discussing abstinence and create a situation where teens are afraid to ask parents for advice or birth control.
Parents who watch this teen pregnancy video will no doubt sense the importance of talking to their teens about sex at an early age and talking about the specifics of pregnancy prevention. Parents will learn statistics they may not have know before such as the United States has the highest rate of teen pregnancy among developed nations.
How to Get Teens to Watch Too Young
Because this teen pregnancy video is currently available to view online at no cost, teens can watch the video from their home, school or library computer. Social networking sites such as Facebook © are an avenue for educating teens about the impacts of becoming a teenage mother. Teens and adults can post a link to this video on a social networking site where it will land in front of teen viewers.
High school teachers, youth ministers and others who work with teens can order a hard copy of the educational DVD and show it as an introduction to a number of learning activities. Teens can continue learning with trivia games, group discussions and friendly debates, all somehow touching on the subject of pregnancy prevention. Writing activities can be assigned such as opinion papers, comparison writing and poetry pieces. Math teachers can have students plot, graph or work with statistics about teen parents.
How to Get Parents to Watch Too Young
The fact that this video can currently be viewed online makes this educational tool available to many parents. Online newsletters distributed to parents can provide a summary and link to the video. Parents can do other parents a favor by sending friends an e-mail with a link to the video. Many parents don’t know the national statistics about teenage moms such as teen moms aren't likely to get married.
Parent educators and churches can purchase a copy of the video and show it at parent meetings and workshops, followed by discussions and role plays where parents get to practice how to talk to teens about pregnancy prevention. This educational DVD does an excellent job at making the issue of teen pregnancy real to parents of teens and preteens. The stories of young moms are real stories and hearing the voices of teen parents tell about their challenges makes a definite impact on viewers.
This educational DVD is available to view online and is also available as a hard copy for $20.00 from the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy.
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