Social Pressures are the combined pressures that surround one during everyday life such as Peer Pressure, Academic Pressures and Socioeconomic Pressure. Poverty is associated with increased rates of teenage pregnancy. Peer pressure usually arises from friends at school who influence each other in gang activities such as smoking or drinking alcohol outside school. One would think that he or she has complete control over these pressures but when a situation arise your ideas may not be as clear as they are at another time. Social Pressures and self affirmation can be confusing and stressful as they often prevented young women from using contraception. Girls felt they would only be accepted as women once they had proved their fertility - many mothers wanted their teenage daughters to become pregnant so they could have a baby at home again," according to one teenage who faced the situation two years ago.
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