I think there are many factors that contribute to the rise in teen pregnancy.

1. Lack of parental involvement. If parents don't teach their kids about sex and birth control the kids aren't going to know because there is a...

2. Lack of sex education in public school. If parents won't teach their kids and don't allow the schools to teach it either then the kids aren't going to know.

3. Making teen pregnancy acceptable or cool. Back when I was in high school(late 80's), getting pregnant wasn't something to be proud of. Nobody gave a pregnant teen a baby shower and other teens didn't think having a baby was cool. If you got pregnant you dealt with it but it wasn't a cause for celebration like so often it seems to be today.

When I was in school there were 4 girls that got pregnant that I can clearly recall and I think 1 or 2 others(one girl got pregnant the summer before 8th grade, now THAT was a scandal)and that was from 7th-12th grade. One or two kept them and the rest opted for adoption except for the girl who was pregnant in 8th grade, she dropped out in 10th grade when she got pregnant again and then married the father of the kids.
The girls were from all different backgrounds and this was a suburban/rural school.

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