Teenage Pregnancy Essay Introduction

express their sense of gender. Children of school entry age, that is, five years old, well able to grasp sexual concept and understandings such as emotions, relationships, body parts and difference between sexes, and simple facts of conception, pregnancy and birth(Goldman, 199). Sex education aims to help decrease the risks of potentially negative outcome from sexual behavior. Sex education should not just be about puberty, it should help our children to feel safe and enjoy their…

I have always been deeply committed to helping others, especially helping those who come from similar backgrounds such as mine. Several experiences have stimulated my attraction to the field of social work. The first step towards my passion to study social work was formed when I was 18 years old and I had my daughter Samantha. I was a single parent and I didn’t have much support from my family. Before I had my daughter I had dropped out of high school. I had some amazing caseworkers who went…

The issue of teenage pregnancy has been a dominant point of interest and contention in American politics and American popular culture, with shows like 16 and Pregnant or Teen Mom becoming a platform for a more open discussion of this issue in American media. Though, these shows are in most cases not a true depiction of this important issue, they are demonstrative of how prevalence and widespread teenage pregnancy has become in America. Therefore, it is important to ask what the the influencing…

Ellis-Sloan, K. (2015). Practising care in teenage mother support groups. Critical Social Policy, 35 (4), 535-555. doi:10.1177/02610183155994572 In this article Ellis-Sloan (2015) examines teenage parents use of support groups, whilst drawing upon two qualitative research projects. The findings reveal the importance of support groups as they hold multiple advantages for young parents such as, peer learning, social support and respite, which ultimately may not be possible within a one to one…

The above graph shows that teenage pregnancy rate is most common amongst those from a manual background than those from managerial or professional background. The graph shows that 1.1% teenagers from a managerial or professional who were pregnant. 3.5% pregnancy rate amongst teenagers from an intermediate background and 8.4% pregnancy rate amongst teenagers from a routine or manual background. This proves that teenagers from manual backgrounds have higher pregnancy rate compare to teenagers from…

Motherly Love Teenage pregnancy and teenage parents do not have to be any different from adults. It all depends on how one views and treats them. According to a study done by the CDC in 2014, of every 1,000 babies 24.2 babies are born to a teenage mother. As a society people must be more understanding of teenagers being parents, and know that it does not automatically make them a bad or poor parent. Pregnancy and parenting is a tough job alone, while the teenage brain is still developing think…

Teenage pregnancy is a major problem in the United States as well as other developed countries. The problem, however, is more widespread in the U.S. than other industrialized nations. The U.S. experiences the highest number of teen births and parenting in the globe. The impact of this problem is quite far-reaching. The consequences of teen pregnancy include abortion, teenage parenting, and social, economic, medical, and educational difficulties for the victims. The problem does not affect the…

The program that I developed in Module two’s SLP assignment primarily revolved around mentorship of high school aged children in an “at risk” category for teen pregnancy and birth, the program would pair an at risk teen with a working professional to develop a success track to the youths desired profession. This mentor/mentee relationship would allow the youth to develop their own goals in order to give them direction to towards their success improving their performance in school and keeping…

“The Other” One particular group of women have been ridiculed, and wrongfully judged by society for too long. Once a young woman gets pregnant she is placed into a statistic, rather than being viewed by her full potential to turn her life around and become successful for her child. People tend to forget that before the twentieth century giving birth young was the norm and the sole purpose of women was to reproduce at young ages. Many of our great- grandparents started having children at the age…

Orange Elementary School is where I am completing my Early Fieldwork Experience. It is located in the city of Hemet, and is one of fourteen elementary schools in the Hemet Unified School District (HUSD). This paper has a demographic profile of the school, the school district and the city. Orange Elementary School has 734 students, of which 485 of those students are Hispanic or Latino at 66.1% of the student body. All of the information presented is from the 2013 – 2014, school year, unless…