Challenges of Teen Pregnancy Essay

Teen Homelessness There are ongoing issues throughout the world and it is happening all the time. This is teen homelessness. Whether this issue has to do with the health status of the teens who do not have housing available to them, if the welfare system prevents the teens from becoming homeless, are the teens choosing to be homeless, and are the teens being rejected from their home because of their sexuality. We as a hole don’t know what exactly is causing this epidemic but we are looking to…

The article by Tynan, Somers, Gleason, Markman, & Yoon (2015) investigates the role of external influential factors on the risky behaviours and goal-oriented habits of adolescents in 9th and 12th grades. The authors identify the various factors that influence adolescents’ behaviours including biological, peers, family and political factors. One of the variables considered for the study include parental monitoring; according to the authors, when parents are less involved in monitoring and…

Overall, the CDC estimates the 19 million new sexually transmitted infections occurs each year (10 Truly Shocking Stats On STDs and College Students, 2015). Schools should have more sex education. The reasons to why is because there are a lot of teens are getting pregnant, STDs, and STIs. Students need information about in order to make choices, understand the risks, and see the long-term consequences of it. Peer pressure is not something easy to deal with. Now and days peer pressure is like a…

perspectives regarding the causes and possible solutions of juvenile delinquency. Before reading Bad Boys: Public Schools in the Making of Black Masculinity and Dubious Conceptions: The Politics of Teenage Pregnancy I had my own theories regarding juvenile delinquency and how education, teen pregnancy, the family system and poverty played a role in youth becoming part of the juvenile justice system. While reading these two novels, the authors, Ann Ferguson and Kristen Luker, challenged my…

tell them straight up, ‘It’s my kid. I pushed him, so I make the rules”. There was a teen named Andrea Sanchez who moved to the U.S from Mexico when she was a baby and which she became pregnant while being a teen. A third of a percentage of teen moms are to get a high school diploma the lowest of a ethnic group. Black teen mothers are more likely the women to earn a diploma by age 22. It was a suffer for us as a teen mother to stay strong, focus and finish school to get an diploma. It’s hard…

Nearly all teens say they do not want to get pregnant, but most of them have never really thought about how getting pregnant or getting someone else pregnant would affect their lives (“About Us” 1). In 2009, MTV aired the documentary television show titled 16 and Pregnant for the first time. The show is about an hour long and focuses on the controversial subject of teen pregnancy. Each episode outlines a different teenage girl’s life in which they are faced with incredibly adult decisions…

daily life for almost a year. In 2014, 5,000 teenage mothers were recorded in France. It is in the region of Nord-Pas-de-Calais, which has the largest number of teenage mothers, the photographer went to meet her subjects of study. Her report "Beein a teen mom "" is currently exposed at the international photojournalism festival Visa pour l'Image.…

Love today is not what it was. Humans are built to love, but when factors are added in they break down and love does not work. Factors such as lust, hormones, jealousy, mistrust, and loose morals can affect a relationship and may break it or lead to unwanted consequences. Many in today’s society, are faced with relationship problems because of these factors and are unable to keep a relationship. Humans have three primary emotional systems when it comes to love. These are mating, reproduction,…

Teen pregnancy has been around for many years, but throughout my junior high and high school years it was more noticeable. I can remember being in junior high and there were a few girls in high school who were pregnant. All my friends and I would hear many rumors about the girls who were pregnant and then judge them based on the rumors. There were rumors going around that the girls “got around”, the girls who got pregnant partied all the time and that’s why they were pregnant, they slept with so…

The Slaughter of Innocence: Abortion Do you think abortion is right? Abortion is a topic that has been discussed and debated for decades. The primary definition for abortion is the deliberate termination of a human pregnancy, most often performed during the first 28 weeks of pregnancy. Those who are against abortion (pro-life), argue that abortion is wrong because it kills human life. On the other hand we have people who favor abortion (pro-choice). They believe women are able to do as they wish…