Feminism and Teen Pregnancy

[X5N]

I was wondering, what the general view of certain radical varieties of feminism is towards teen pregnancy.

For one thing, is it viewed as something that needs to be limited to uplift the status of women, or is it viewed as something that's not a severe issue?

[Koba Junior]

I would suspect that feminism would support the freedom of females to have sexual intercourse at their own discretion, while also electing to raise children at their own discretion. Feminists, please feel free to correct me. I don't know much about feminism.

[KurtFF8]

Of course feminism is not a singular theory, and there are tons of responses to this question (even within certain strands I'm sure).

Teen pregnancy itself as a social issue is perhaps more the question to ask. For example, if it becomes widespread, that is a different kind of thing than dealing with it in the abstract of "should it ever permitted?"

I would imagine there are plenty of feminists who would argue that teen pregnancy needs to be understood in the social context that leads to it as a social phenomena: sexual education, access to birth control (especially in working class communities and communities of color), anti-reproductive rights legislation, etc. etc.

There are also more abstract concerns: like what kinds of psychological affects there are in terms of raising a child when one is at a young age and all of that. This is perhaps the point where the more liberal strands of feminism focus more than the socialist strands that would focus on social context.