What is the most important step we can take to help control human overpopulation?
The best thing that we can do to stop the increasing rate of humans throughout our country is by teaching the teenagers that the best way to not end up pregnant is by using birth control.
We obviously can not stop the adults from doing what they want to do as in having kids, but we can say something to the teenagers so they won't be the ones out there having unprotected sex and ending up pregnant at such a young age. I think that in schools, there should be more awareness of teen pregnancies and sex. Schools should be able to teach their students that they should be using some type of birth control to protect themselves. For the teenagers that are sexually active, which is a large percent, they should be taking some kind of method to prevent them form getting pregnant. It might not be the right thing to do, but if a teenager happens to end up pregnant, they should be able to have an abortion if they please to instead of keeping the baby if they can not raise it. Also, parents are a big factor in all of this. They should be able to talk to their kids as well about sex because there are a lot of parents out there who do not like to talk to their kids about it. They think that by not talking about, then their kids are not going to be out there doing it, but instead, their kids end up pregnant. If we were to take these steps, we would see that it can make a difference as in not increasing the rate of the human population due to kids that didn't use birth control.
This is basically what the United States is left to do if there was really anyway that human overpopulation can be reduced. If we just let the teenagers of today go on and have children of their own and not do anything about it, then the world would eventually run out of resources for us to live as comfortable as have.
