Teenage Suicide Essay

Teen pregnancy is a well recognized problem and community health nurses (CHN) are in a great position to apply measures to reduce its occurrence and lessen the impact pregnancy has on a teen and her baby when it happens. Using an upstream perspective, the community health nurse should critically assess factors contributing to a teen’s pregnancy and gather information about the teen’s perception on that topic, their satisfaction with sex education, barriers to obtain contraceptives, and…

Teenage pregnancy is one of the significant reasons for high school dropouts according to the CDC, with only 50% of all teenage mothers going onto receive their high school diploma by the age of 22. Not only are teenage mothers at risk for lower school achievements, but so are their children who face a higher rate of dropping out of high school, being a teenage parent in the future, and having health problems (About Teen Pregnancy, 2016). The teenage pregnancy rates in the state of Florida are…

If you scroll through T.V. channels you will see shows or movies such as Secret Life of an American Teenager, Juno, Teen Mom’s, or even the Pregnancy Act. All shows which are centered off the theme of pregnant teenagers. The idea of teen pregnancy has become an epidemic that is sweeping modern society and social media. Now more than ever, teen pregnancy is portrayed through television as glamorous, which has made it more acceptable. In my high school if you became a pregnant young woman you…

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…

Teenage Pregnancy Teen pregnancy is something that affects over one million young teens in the United States. In the summer of July 1989, I became part of that statistic. I was only fourteen years of age when I learned, I was expecting my first child. For some, teen pregnancy is planned, and this would be my case. It wasn’t due to lack of knowledge, experimentation or the desire to be with multiple partners. No, it was simply out of spite. I thought, I was mature enough to take care of a child.…

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…

Teens get involve in unhealthy actions so that their peers will notice them, and so that they may fit in. Teenage girls with low self-esteem are an easy target for predators that want to take advantage of them sexually. Males states that “Trauma cause by physical, sexual, or emotional abuse may be the most striking and overt causes of low self-esteem”. Young…

Problem Reality tv and media negatively impact an adolescent 's mind by the assumption that teenage pregnancy leads to fame. Television shows like “16 and Pregnant”, “Teen Mom”, and their spinoffs have given teens a different view on what it 's like to be a young parent. Why do the television shows and their in sight on teen pregnancy influence the adolescent mind? Because the adolescent brain does not perceive the dangerous influences of media and its consequences. To the young girl who sits…

Being a teenager in today’s society is stressful on its own, it doesn’t help with the rising numbers in unwanted pregnancy in these young adults. Being in your teenage years you are just figuring out who you are and how to live on your own. On average three out of ten teens get pregnant before they reach the age of twenty (Thomas). Many girls and/ or couples are not mentally or physically prepared to have a child right now in their life. Unplanned pregnancy has become a problem in the United…

The contraceptive Plan B pill has been the main source of controversy since the approval of the FDA decision to make it available over the counter with no age restrictions back in 2013. Many women across the United States have to deal with unplanned pregnancies each year, and most deciding whether or not they should continue with the pregnancy or end it. The Food & Drug Administration along with the United States Department of Health authorized a highly ‘morning-after pill or more known to as…