Negative Effects of Teen Pregnancy Essay

Topic: Teenage pregnancy is a serious Social Problem Pregnancy is a natural condition that usually brings joy and positively changing people’s life. Even though, pregnancy could be one of the best experiences for women; however when it is contracting too early in life it may cause more defects than benefits. Teen pregnancy is being tagged as one the most important social problems in United States, about 90% of teens become pregnant yearly unintentionally and half of these pregnancies result…

Teens do not stop to think about how alcoholism affects their hormones. Most teens go out to parties and kickbacks and consume large amounts of alcohol, which makes them uncontrollable of their actions and hormones during that moment. So, they tend to become very touchy with one another, and often time endure in sexual intercourse. During that moment majority of teens forget all about using protection. The teen’s lack awareness, which causes them to end up reproducing a baby together. This in…

does not have a source of income to support the baby. In total, in the United States, almost 10 billion dollars is spent due to teen pregnancies. Even before the baby is born, money has to be spent on prenatal care of the baby. This prenatal care is essential to the health of the baby. On average, the cost of prenatal care is around $2,000 over the course of the pregnancy. Vitamins are one of the most important thing to buy, since they are needed to prevent birth defects in the baby’s neural…

Teen childbearing can carry health, economic, and social costs for mothers and their children. Teen births in the US have declined, but still more than 273,000 infants were born to teens ages 15 to 19 in 2013. The good news is that more teens are waiting to have sex, and for sexually active teens, nearly 90% used birth control the last time they had sex. However, teens most often use condoms and birth control pills, which are less effective at preventing pregnancy when not used consistently and…

utilizing what the author of the article Teen Pregnancy and Parenting considers “scientifically incorrect information.” Abstinence-only sex education teaches only three main concepts: 1) waiting until marriage to partake in sexual activity as the expected standard, 2) abstinence is the only certain way to avoid unwanted pregnancy and STDs, and 3) sexual activity outside the context of a committed marriage will have harmful psychological and/or physical effects (source 3). Though this is the…

Public Health Problem Teen Pregnancy is a problem that is completely preventable. It seems as if teen pregnancy has become a hot topic over the recent years, however this concern has been around for centuries. Teen pregnancy can be traced to the Puritans, traditionally if a young female was considered ready she would be made a wife, and then a mother (Adolescent Pregnancy in America). In the United States from the 1950’s to the 1970’s teenage pregnancy rates increased about 47% however, more…

intoxicates, if consumed in large enough amounts. Intoxicated people, and especially teens who already have a bold view on life, can be dangerous to themselves and others. As Melanie Haiken, writer for Healthday.com says: “Drinking is also linked with suicide, use of other drugs, and irresponsible sexual behaviors.” These types of behavioral ways are best to be kept out of high schools and other places where teens hang out and incidents can happen. In addi-tion, according to statistics from the…

country with the highest teen pregnancy rate is America, for every 1,000 teens 57 will be pregnant before 20. The second highest is New Zealand where for every 1,000 teens 51 will become pregnant between 15-19. So why is this number so high not just in our country but worldwide(Sedgh)? We can easily blame the teens for not sustaining abstinence, but this doesn’t prevent the problem. Taking preventive action is the only way to decrease these statistics, because expecting all teens to remain…

Choice Although teen pregnancies for girls ages 15 to 19 have been lowering in the past couple of years, the U.S. teen birth rate, as researched by the US Department of Health and Safety Human services, is still higher than in other developed countries. There are many ways to reduce the numbers and one method is to allow 15 year old girls to obtain over the counter emergency contraceptives. Emergency contraception a.k.a. the morning after pill, is a drug that can prevent pregnancy up to 5 days…

The Real Problem of Teen Pregnancy in New Orleans In the past decade, people have been more oblivious to teen pregnancy. They act as if teen pregnancy is normal. This is very hard to accept by others, because the scene of a young girl or a young boy desperately pleading to get an opportunity to undo the "mistake" they have made upon themselves and their future. This is completely opposite of how people choose to carelessly accept the truth of how teen pregnancy affects others nationally, and…