It is important to consider the social, emotional, physical, and economic effects of teen pregnancy.

My goals over the next 10 years are to graduate high school and go to college. I want to become a naturalist and travel the world but I need a college education otherwise I wont have a source of income. I want to have children but not until after I have traveled the places I want to go. Once I finished my traveling I want to buy a house and be able to settle down and live from my job and some investments I will have made.

If I ended up having a child before graduating high school, things would go a lot differently. I would probably have to drop out and get a source of income immediately, although that would be hard not having graduated from high school. I would probably have to ask my parents for financial support, and that is not a pressure I want to put on them. I wouldn't be able to travel the world and fulfill my dreams.