In society today, young people are engaging sexual activity with little knowledge/understanding in regards to undesirable pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. Young people who engage in sexual activity place themselves as well as others in danger. Young people should be furnished with the proper education in regards teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases to help foster open minds and communication to the issue that is not often talked about in homes and schools because of…
Reality television programs concerning teenage pregnancy are becoming a major influence in lives of today of adolescents. The major networks encourage young teens to view programs such as MTV’s Teen Mom, Teen Mom 2 and 16 & Pregnant so they will become addicted to watching the program and feel as if though they are a part of the characters reality life. Pursuant to research conducted by “Teen Health and the Media” the average American teen spends about 20 hours a week watching television…
The program that we will be launching will be called Teenage Knowledge, and is set to be launched in Inner City Chicago, on June 25th, 2016. We have many high expectations for this program and we hope that with this in place in one of the lowest income areas of Chicago that this will drastically reduce the ever so high rate of teenage pregnancy. Unwanted teenage pregnancy is an epidemic that has always been an issue in the world, but in the last ten years, has begun to run rampant in…
in order to let abortion to remain legal, government should provide more information to people about how to prevent unintended pregnancy and declined the rate of teen abortions. 3.2 Better Ways to Resolve the Abortion Conflicts: Sexual Education Teenage abortion is not the new occurrences in the United States. However, in the past few years, the young people become very active at sex, conceive, and make decision abortion abortion. Nowadays, teenagers will have made several major decisions in…
Today in the United States, many students are deciding to drop out of high school. Many factors can contribute to this. Sometimes students may quit to take care of their family or siblings. Teen pregnancy, drugs, or bullying can also contribute to dropping out, as well as, having disabilities, the family moving, or not parental interest. For whatever reason, dropping out might seem like a good idea at the time, but this decision will affect these students for the rest of their lives. This…
"Teen birth rates declined from 2013 to 2014 for all races and for Hispanics. Among 15- to 19-year-olds, teen birth rates decreased" (CDC para 4). The reason that I chose to writing about teenage pregnancy is because I think that shows like Teen Mom and 16 and pregnant prevent teens from wanting to have kids, it doesn 't necessarily stop then from having sexual contact but it teaches teens protection while having sex , because the moms have to struggle on the show is how the kids will struggle…
Research Question: How do people view the effect sexual education has on high school teen pregnancy rate? This research project seeks to identify what the perception people have of the effects sexual education has on the rates of teenage pregnancy. This project will be a quantitative study, because a quantitative study focuses on describing a phenomenon across a larger number of participants. Quantitative data can be analyzed with the help of statistics; this will result in unbiased data that…
potential” (Yee 5). It is a risk to give birth when you are a young woman. Teenagers and early adults are not physically ready to go through the process of giving birth. Women forced into a relationship and having a child may just have to learn to love and live in denial. A woman forced into motherhood usually is not a caring mother and will not care…
I was 17 years old when my whole life got switched around. Only a Junior in High School, I became pregnant. I did not know what to think or what to do, but all I really wanted to do was just sit and cry. I thought I had just ruined my life for good. I felt like I could not find the support and stability I was needing, but when I gave in and told my mom, she was there by my side and told me she would always stick by my side through it all. I started telling myself, How am I going to raise a kid,…
every 1.000 young ladies aged 16-19. On the contrary, sex education faces opposition in Indonesia because of the conservatives who believe that people will learn about sex naturally and sex is still a taboo for them. The comparison of the rate of teenage pregnancies in Indonesia is still high. More than 32,000 Indonesian women experienced unwanted pregnancies between 2010 and 2014, one of the highest figures among ASEAN countries, based on data from World Health Organization (WHO). Actually,…