The Office of Adolescent Health analyzed the trends in teen births, variations in teen birth rates across populations (ethnicity between ages 15-19) and characteristics associated with adolescent childbearing in their article entitled Trends in Teen Pregnancy and Childbearing. According to Office of Adolescent Health, in 2013, there were 26.5 births for every 1,000 adolescent females age 15-19 or 273,105 babies born to females in this age group. Nearly eighty-nine percent of these births occurred outside of marriage. The teen birth rate indicates a decline of 10% from 2012 when the birth rate was 29.4 per 1,000.
The Office of Adolescent Health performed a study entitled, Variations in Teen Birth Rates Across Populations,their study depicted …show more content…
There are many traumatic, emotional effects on a teenage mother. Kamalasanan (2012) wrote a research article 4 Traumatic Emotional Effects of Teenage Pregnancy. He reviewed several emotional issues pertaining to depression, family hostilities, worries about the future, and teen helplessness. The article states adolescents do not usually have a plan of getting pregnant when they engage in sexual behavior. It is their inability to make a note of the consequences of unplanned indulgence in sex that puts them at risk. It is after the teenager has realized that she is pregnant that she discovers the possible downsides to it at a tender age. Furthermore, a teenage girl living with parents may find it even more difficult to cope with pregnancy for she will be drawn by the guilt of having let her parents down. “Besides, most families are aversive to the idea of teenage pregnancy and instead of supporting the child, end up throwing unfriendly and disturbing remarks”(Family change during an unwed teenage pregnancy, 1994). This makes the pregnant teenager experience hostility from her parents or family members and make her feel as if she is far away from being taken care of. At such a juncture, a pregnant teenager may look for ways to kill herself or the baby, thereby enhancing the existing issue load.
Another implication on teen pregnancy is life interruption. Not surprisingly, teens that have a baby are less likely to finish high school than their …show more content…
The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and Louis Harris and Associates, Inc. administered a telephone survey on public perception. They used random-digital selection procedures to represent a sample of households in 48 states. Kaiser, Harris, and Associates results revealed the following: 60% percent of respondents considered unplanned pregnancy a very big problem, and virtually all respondents (90%) said that the problem was either very big or somewhat big. Only 7% of respondents considered unplanned pregnancy either not a very big problem or not a problem at all. These views were consistent regardless of sex, income or age (Kaiser, Harris, and Associates, 2002).This information will be used to compare to the survey this researcher is going to give out. It will compare how the overall public looks at teen pregnancy to how the ultra-religious people view teen pregnancy. This could possibly show the reasons why they are judged and what is the cause of them being
The Office of Adolescent Health performed a study entitled, Variations in Teen Birth Rates Across Populations,their study depicted …show more content…
There are many traumatic, emotional effects on a teenage mother. Kamalasanan (2012) wrote a research article 4 Traumatic Emotional Effects of Teenage Pregnancy. He reviewed several emotional issues pertaining to depression, family hostilities, worries about the future, and teen helplessness. The article states adolescents do not usually have a plan of getting pregnant when they engage in sexual behavior. It is their inability to make a note of the consequences of unplanned indulgence in sex that puts them at risk. It is after the teenager has realized that she is pregnant that she discovers the possible downsides to it at a tender age. Furthermore, a teenage girl living with parents may find it even more difficult to cope with pregnancy for she will be drawn by the guilt of having let her parents down. “Besides, most families are aversive to the idea of teenage pregnancy and instead of supporting the child, end up throwing unfriendly and disturbing remarks”(Family change during an unwed teenage pregnancy, 1994). This makes the pregnant teenager experience hostility from her parents or family members and make her feel as if she is far away from being taken care of. At such a juncture, a pregnant teenager may look for ways to kill herself or the baby, thereby enhancing the existing issue load.
Another implication on teen pregnancy is life interruption. Not surprisingly, teens that have a baby are less likely to finish high school than their …show more content…
The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and Louis Harris and Associates, Inc. administered a telephone survey on public perception. They used random-digital selection procedures to represent a sample of households in 48 states. Kaiser, Harris, and Associates results revealed the following: 60% percent of respondents considered unplanned pregnancy a very big problem, and virtually all respondents (90%) said that the problem was either very big or somewhat big. Only 7% of respondents considered unplanned pregnancy either not a very big problem or not a problem at all. These views were consistent regardless of sex, income or age (Kaiser, Harris, and Associates, 2002).This information will be used to compare to the survey this researcher is going to give out. It will compare how the overall public looks at teen pregnancy to how the ultra-religious people view teen pregnancy. This could possibly show the reasons why they are judged and what is the cause of them being