“Caring connections” Mentoring relationships in the lives of urban girls in the period of pregnancy and motherhood. – Rhodes, Davis, Prescott and Spencer.

I believe parents or adult (natural or formal) mentor can play a powerful role in the life of adolescents in making healthy decisions about sex, sexuality, and relationships. Need to provide sex education, why premature pregnancy is risk for both mother and child? What precautions to be needed before and immediate after sex? It is better to prevent unintended pregnancies in adolescence. According to data bank 2010, pregnancy rate below 15 years is 2.4 per thousand and in 15 – 19 years is 14.7 per thousand, out of all pregnancy rate 34.5% are Black 15.3% are Hispanic and the most surprising fact is that 8 out of 10 don’t get married, may be they are not well prepared to take the responsibilities.I think it depends in your culture,how you react? In my country,pregnancy before marriage is not accepted.Most will go for abortion and try to hide hide from society because it is related to their social status.Anyway, pregnancy is an unplanned and life-challenging event for teenagers; they need proper guidance, care, company and natural mentorship from pregnancy period to reduce Life-threatening risk during birth. Although many pregnant and parenting adolescents prefer natural mentors but still efforts have been made to pair up formal mentor for those who do not have natural mentor for their social emotional development, cognitive development and identity development.