The Roe vs. Wade case was a popular debate about the women rights to privacy. However, I believed that a woman should only have from six weeks to twelve weeks to have any abortion. There are several reasons or situations that causes women to abort their pregnancy. Therefore, abortion should be kept legal. Last Sunday, I was driving home and notice a group of people holding up abortion signs. The signs read the following messages; “Women deserve better than abortion” and “Face it abortion…
people lives adding a lot of emotional stress. Teen pregnancy is a cultural issue because we have 15-year-old kids that can barely take care of themselves caring for another human being. Many children that were born from an unplanned pregnancy of a teenage mother grow up with not receiving all of the right needs. These children may not get the right schooling or education, do not have the necessary food, and may become apart of some violence because the parents are still going through schooling…
A stereotype is “to believe unfairly that all people or things with a particular characteristic are the same” (Merriam-Webster). Gaby Rodrigues co-author of The Pregnancy Project decided to spend her senior year of High School investigating stereotypes. She decided to fake her own pregnancy, even deciding most of her family and her boyfriend's parents, because she wanted to investigate the stereotypes associated with teen pregnancy. The Pregnancy Project is a memoir written by Gaby Rodriguez…
According to Hulton (2007), teenage pregnancy is influenced by environmental factors such as peer pressure, the communities and the schools. In testing whether or not practicing abstinence was effective, Hulton used the logic framework model. This model serves as a useful guide for…
Imagine a world where sexually transmitted diseases are on the front page of every newspaper. Imagine a world where children are born to parents who are not financially or mentally equipped to rear them. Imagine a world where condoms are not readily available. Each year, an average of 40,000 to 80,000 students are affected by either a sexually transmitted disease or an unintended pregnancy. Although this problem is far too complex for any one solution, promoting safe sex seems to alleviate the…
There are a lot important aspects of the development stages of a two-year-old girl. Which, it is different from a point of view of a psychosexual (Sigmund Freud), psychosocial (Erikson), clinical psychologist (Jean Piaget's). According to their differences a two year old girl development stages can change. However, even when they focus themselves in different aspects most of their aspects are present when a child achieve the age of two year old. For instances: 1. Freud theory is based in the…
The media popularised images of what constitutes homelessness generally thought of single dirty male roaming the streets, or as an individual or family without a home has changed over the past decade. However, the numbers of homeless people are not conclusive and vary across studies and collective data. However, research from Department for Communities and Local Government (2013) estimated that there are approximately two million homeless people in United Kingdom including people residing in…
In a five-part tv series, The Raising of America, demonstrates why a child’s wellbeing in the US has fallen to 26/29 in the richest nations in the world. As the film stated, the circuits in an infant’s brain is formed, not by genes, but by the interactions of their environment, especially by those of the caregivers. So, when we do not invest enough resources in parents, the structure of the family will crumble. Studies, stories and statistics have shown that an infant’s need to thrive is…
mother for weeks now but, she knew that it would only break her heart. At the delicate age of 15, she is 5 weeks pregnant. A child herself is now going to be responsible for another life before she could even start her own. Hundreds of thousands of teenage girls experience this gut wrenching feeling yearly. The fact is, our country does not have consistency when it comes to sex education. Unwanted pregnancies, along with sexually transmitted diseases is the result of this. Planned Parenthood and…
When it comes to the Korean Comfort Women reading, Pyong Gap Min’s objective involves explaining the sufferings of the Korean victims (Min, 2003, p. 940). Her article opts for an “intersectional analysis” and includes three factors for the analysis: colonization, gender hierarchy, and social class (Min, 2003, p. 940). If the objective is to understand the suffering of the victims, this response argues that the aforementioned variables are the wrong variables to focus on. To put it simply, using…