Although there are quite a few books for teenagers about what happens when you get pregnant, there are many good reasons to pick this one. It's up-to-date. It has all the facts. And most important, it is written about real girls who faced this all-too-real situation. Reading about their experiences, their ideas, and their choices is the best way for a young woman to find out what the right decision for someone in this situation is.

In the last few years there has been a revolutionary change in the amount of knowledge about human sexuality available to young people. Sex educa-tion is now taught in many more schools. There is more public information about contraception. It may seem that we couldn't possibly need yet another book on teenage pregnancy, but we sure do! We in the United States still have the highest rate of adolescent pregnancy in the developed world. Many mothers, and most fathers, still find it difficult to really talk to their children about sex. While there has been much improvement in sex education in our schools, it isn't always very complete or, alas, very forthcoming. Insufficient knowledge about sex is coupled today with huge pressure in the media to be sexy. So long as we tolerate runaway sexiness in the media, we give kids the message that sex is something everyone does, so why shouldn't they do it too? The result? Every year about one million teenaged girls unintentionally become pregnant.