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INTRODUCTION A long time ago girls were paired or married off at a young age. Most were as young as twelve and thirteen. These young girls had several children before the age of twenty. This was during a time when girls were not allowed a voice; their parents were the matchmakers or the beneficiaries of these alliances. As the decades progressed women were introduced to rights as an individual and to make your own choices and we were evolving into independent women with our own thoughts and opinions. While we were doing this our daughters were still getting pregnant. We made the transition from the bedroom into the boardroom as CEO’s and Presidents, etc... and we were able to stand on our own. We matured into people that handled their own affairs and even made choices to have them. Yet our daughters were still getting pregnant. Women have been in space, we are race car drivers, we are now ahead of men in terms of attending college, we have broken through most of the old boy networks and we have accomplished more in the past several decades, yet our daughters are still getting pregnant. There has got to be something wrong with this picture when you consider all the advances women have made. All the opportunit