The Scarlet Letter: Relevance to Today's Teenage Parents In the distance, a young woman walks...alone on a path parallel to the one on which society has stopped to stare at her; she stops. She stands alone as she faces the cold world, gripping her baby close to her chest as society glares harshly down upon her with no pity, casting her aside. No man supports her as she makes her steps into a future …showed first 75 words of 1100 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1100 total…held Hester down. Teen mothers need to realize that their paths are not so preset. Society, in turn, needs to pull itself from the Dark Ages and see that the world has changed, and their support will often be what can guide these teen mothers away from that lonely, cold path. Once these necessities are fulfilled, the hundreds of years of young women's lives being ruined by a mistake will finally draw to a close.