Teenage Love Essay

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…

In most Texas high schools it is not unusual to see a young girl walking around school pregnant. Many schools have taken the “shame” approach, where the girls take separate classes from their peers in order to learn how to be a fit parent. What sixteen year old is truly ready to raise a child, often times, by themselves? This is a problem that is easily avoided. The Texas education system seems to think that the method of strictly teaching abstinence is effective, however how can it possibly be…

seem to never agree on. Although the teenage pregnancy rate is not as high as it once was in the United States the teen birth rate is higher than it is in other developed countries, such as Canada and the United Kingdom ( Hamiliton, Martin, Osterman 2015). There are numerous reasons why I feel as if teenage girls should have the privilege to receive birth control when they feel it is needed. Some parents believe if they provide birth control for their teenage girls that it gives them the…

Teenagers are starting to think about sex at a younger age. Studies are showing that children start thinking about sex around the age of 10 to 12. 82% of the teenagers feel like they should not have sex, 72% say they should have access to birth control, 73% say being a virgin should not be embarrassing, 58% feel high school students should not be active, fewer than 50% of had sex, and 67% of teens in the study say that they wish they would have waited to have sex. 60% of them were boys and 77%…

Amidst problems of drug abuse and ineffective insurance, there is a great epidemic affecting the lives of everyday people in communities. Teen pregnancy is a problem that needs to be confronted before the effects resonate throughout the generations. Through effective education, teen pregnancy can reach an all time low and eventually be seen as a rarity, and not a common issue. Teen pregnancy might seem like an isolated issue, but it actually affects a whole community everyday. The issues that a…

a significant reduction in unintended births for either teens or adults. In the 1990’s in Florida, there was a program called Intensive Teenage Parenting Program (ITTP) run by Northside Mental Health Center. This program was developed to teach teens parenting skills for newborns along with education about future choices to stop the cycle of repetitive teenage pregnancy. The statistic at that time was a teen who had her first child by the age of 15, would have her second child by age 17.…

relationship between sexual activity and suicide. Girls who is pregnancy will lose social activity, feel lonely and cause disease. The relationship between teens pregnancy and suicide is that people had sexual activity are more likely to suicide and more teenage boys suicide than girls, high probably of girls attend to plan suicide than boys. Multiple research studies indicate that unsafe sex of teenager leads pregnancy effect young people’s life in several ways. First of all, there are 750,000…

In our society parenthood is the leading reason that teen girls drop out of school. More than 50% of teen mothers never graduate from high school. Aid young parents by starting a Babysitters Club so they can take GED classes. The United States has one of the highest teen pregnancy rates in the western industrialized world. Nearly 85% are unplanned , which in any population can increase the risk for problems. The biggest risk for teen mothers is delaying prenatal care or worse, 7.2% received no…

with sex, instead of teaching teenagers about safety precautions.(9). These flaws would help explain the fact that states with the highest levels of abstinence also have the highest teen pregnancy rates. Dr. Stanger-Hall and Dr. Hall discuss how the teenage pregnancy rate was directly related to the degree of abstinence only education the teenagers had received. They also discuss how more intensive abstinence curriculum means teens are more probable to become pregnant instead of abstinent(4).…

Teenage pregnancy rates have been on the rise for years now. Two generations ago a teen getting pregnant might have been the scandal of the season but now it is common to have at least one set of teenage parents in a high school. So, what initiated this trend? Media, abortions, and the lack of sex education have led to an increase in teenage pregnancies. Most notable is the effect of media on adolescence minds. Media exposes children to sex at a young age through pop culture, TV shows,…