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Here’s a fun fact. Teenage pregnancy accounts for 22 of every 1,000 births in the United States, according to 2006 statistics, the last ones to be released, and those numbers are steadily growing. Who is to blame for these statistics? The teens? Are they really old enough to make be held responsible for these things? Can we blame the daytime trash talk show hosts who glorify teens wanting to be mothers?

We really have to blame ourselves, the parents, for teenage pregnancies, don’t we? We don’t turn off the television when the trash talk shows are on. We allow dating when our teens are still children. We encourage them at a very young age to grow up. Parents have not lost control of their children, they have given up control of them.
So when you talk about dating with your children, you do the talking. You tell them what you expect of them and what the proper behavior is for teens when they are dating. Base that behavior on what you were taught, or if you think your parents were too lenient on you, then stiffen up your expectations some.

And for the sake of all things holy, don’t let your children date before they have even gone through puberty! 13 year old children are at that horrible, confusing in between age. In between curious childhood and daring adulthood. They don’t want to be children anymore, so they will try to be adults in ways that we don’t want them to grow up! Maybe it is we parents who need to grow up and take responsibility when it comes to dating.