Teenage Pregnancy Quotes:

We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.

- John Sculley

topic: Leadership, Teacher, Teenage, Good Teacher, Substance Abuse

Just saying no prevents teenage pregnancy the way 'Have a nice day' cures chronic depression.

- Faye Wattleton

topic: Teenage, Nice, Pregnancy, Have A Nice Day, Nice Day

If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.

- Nora Ephron

topic: Inspirational, Baby, Pregnancy, Inspirational Pregnancy, Being Pregnant

There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.

- Honore de Balzac

topic: Smile, Pregnancy, Literature, Sly, Teenage Pregnancy

Pregnancy is getting company inside one's skin.

- Maggie Scarf

topic: Pregnancy, Skins, Company, Being Pregnant, Were Pregnant

Nah... I mean, I'm already pregnant, so what other kind of shenanigans could I get into?

- Diablo Cody

source: "Juno". www.imdb.com. 2007.

topic: Teenager, Pregnancy, Mean, Shenanigans, Teenage Pregnancy

The teenage pregnancy is such a tragic thing. It is such a sad and tragic thing because the children who have children do it because they think they are going to be loved. They are going to be loved, but they have to give love to be loved otherwise the child becomes depressed. Isolated and depressed. In other words apathetic.

- Laura Huxley

source: Source: www.whitelotus.org

topic: Children, Teenage, Pregnancy, Teenage Pregnancy

Every extra year you spend in a better environment makes you more likely to go to college, less likely to have a teenage pregnancy, makes you earn more as an adult, makes you more likely to have a stable family situation, be married, for instance, when you're an adult.

- Raj Chetty

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Teenage, Pregnancy, College, Teenage Pregnancy

Social ills: teenage pregnancy, gangs, children with behavioral problems. All these things can be alleviated if kids got more physical activity for starters.

- Edwin Moses

source: "Olympian Edwin Moses Helps Kids Clear Their Own Hurdles". "Here and Now" with Meghna Chakrabarti, www.npr.org. August 20, 2013.

topic: Children, Teenage, Pregnancy, Teenage Pregnancy

Millions of American families are dealing with teenage pregnancy... It is true that some Americans will judge Governor Palin and her family. There's nothing anyone can do about it.

- Bill O'Reilly

topic: Teenage, Pregnancy, Judging, Teenage Pregnancy, American Family

Many of the words and phrases used in the media and among academics suggest that things simply: happen: to people, rather than be being caused by their own choices and behavior. Thus there is said to be an 'epidemic' of teenage pregnancy, or of drug usage, as if these things were like the flu that people catch just by being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

- Thomas Sowell

source: Thomas Sowell (1995). “The Vision of the Anointed: Self-congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy”, p.198, Basic Books

topic: Teenage, Pregnancy, Epidemics, Teenage Pregnancy

I was a black boy at the height of the crack era, which meant that my instructors pitched education as the border between those who would prosper in America, and those who would be fed to the great hydra of prison, teenage pregnancy and murder.

- Ta-Nehisi Coates

source: "School as Wonder, or Way Out" by Ta-Nehisi Coates, www.nytimes.com. July 10, 2012.

topic: Teenage, Pregnancy, Boys, Instructors, Hydra

A "snapshot" feature in USA Today listed the five greatest concerns parents and teachers had about children in the '50s: talking out of turn, chewing gum in class, doing homework, stepping out of line, cleaning their rooms. Then it listed the five top concerns of parents today: drug addiction, teenage pregnancy, suicide and homicide, gang violence, anorexia and bulimia. We can also add AIDS, poverty, and homelessness. . . . Between my own childhood and the advent of my motherhood--one short generation--the culture had gone completely mad.

- Mary Blakely

topic: Suicide, Teacher, Children, Bulimia, Homicide