The topic I chose to discuss is that of teen pregnancy. Teen pregnancy during the year of 2012, there was over 100,000 babies that were born to adolescences between the ages of 15 to 19 years of age. Though the numbers may seem high it is actually a 6% drop from the previous year 2011. Teen Pregnancy is considered difficult due to the continuous pressure to not only fit in but to also identify with who you are. The scholarly article I selected discusses the necessity for teenagers (especially the female) to receive parenting education, healthy life style decisions, coping strategies, and education success planning (Kirven, 2014). The article expresses no specific number of participants that were studied or researched. However the author conducts
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They are different in that they highlight the importance of educating teens but at different times and for different reasons. In the first article the relevance for educating teens is at the point after the fact of having a baby by providing parenting classes, stress classes, and informing teen parents the knowledge for furthering their education. The second articles aims at trying to prevent teens from ever getting pregnant in the first place by providing teenagers with the necessary sex education in order to prevent having to deal with the after math. The articles both are really great and shed light on some great points but where one article is proactive regarding the prevention of teen pregnancy, the other (first article) is on a reactive stance. The first article is on the end of the spectrum of dealing with what has already occurred and teaching teens how to pick up and move forward. Each article provides the consumers with valuable information that can be taken away. However, the scholarly article remains unbiased and non-condemning. The media article is condemning and can make consumers feel like while statistics are being provided the author is wagging a disappointing finger at teenagers and have the opposite effect by shutting the reading off to being receptive to the information being provided. I believe the reason professors require students to use papers from peer reviewed and professional organizations is that the tone behind the message being delivered is unbiased. When readers are reading information regarding such touchy subjects it shouldn’t feel like a parent trying to shove information and consequences down your throat. Readers, and especially teens want the facts minus the condemning tone that can often be associated with media provided articles. There tends to be more emotion attached to media provided articles. I think the reason it is so
They are different in that they highlight the importance of educating teens but at different times and for different reasons. In the first article the relevance for educating teens is at the point after the fact of having a baby by providing parenting classes, stress classes, and informing teen parents the knowledge for furthering their education. The second articles aims at trying to prevent teens from ever getting pregnant in the first place by providing teenagers with the necessary sex education in order to prevent having to deal with the after math. The articles both are really great and shed light on some great points but where one article is proactive regarding the prevention of teen pregnancy, the other (first article) is on a reactive stance. The first article is on the end of the spectrum of dealing with what has already occurred and teaching teens how to pick up and move forward. Each article provides the consumers with valuable information that can be taken away. However, the scholarly article remains unbiased and non-condemning. The media article is condemning and can make consumers feel like while statistics are being provided the author is wagging a disappointing finger at teenagers and have the opposite effect by shutting the reading off to being receptive to the information being provided. I believe the reason professors require students to use papers from peer reviewed and professional organizations is that the tone behind the message being delivered is unbiased. When readers are reading information regarding such touchy subjects it shouldn’t feel like a parent trying to shove information and consequences down your throat. Readers, and especially teens want the facts minus the condemning tone that can often be associated with media provided articles. There tends to be more emotion attached to media provided articles. I think the reason it is so