Pregnancy over age 50

Due to new and improved items used to prevent teen pregnancy, the numbers of unintended teen pregnancies are drastically falling. Items such as, birth control, condoms, and more education on safe sex are promoting women to wait to have a child until later in life. Many individuals disagree with women becoming pregnant at a young age. As well as, people point out the advantages of preventing teen pregnancy, like keeping children in school. Multiple authors will be assisting pointing out the…

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Fatherless Homes in the United States of America According to the U.S. Census Bureau, over one-third of the children in America are growing up without their biological dad. Interestingly in the past 50 years the percentage of babies being born to unwedded mothers has jumped from 5 to 40 percent (Stuart, 2011, p.1). Sociologists have named father absence one of the most worrisome and issue related trends rising in today’s America. Since Barack Obama’s presidency he has made a special imploration…

these classes if they opposed letting their children learn about sexuality at such a young age. At this point in our lives, my mother did not agree with starting sexual education this young and had excused me and my siblings from these classes. As we progressed through the grades, the next sexual education classes were offered in fifth,…

Teenage pregnancy has been a national epidemic for decades now, beginning during the 1950s. Premature parenthood is more than a nine month interruption in a young woman’s life. Rather, it can further complicate a life that may already be deficient in promise, hope, and dreams for the future. Young adolescents are simply just not ready to take on the responsibility of another life other than their own. Many states in the United States have developed abstinence-based classes, teaching young…

body 's ability to fight the organisms by damaging your immune system. HIV is a sexually transmitted infection. It can also be spread by contact with infected blood, from mother to child during pregnancy or childbirth, breast-feeding and so on. HIV affects the immune system, especially CD4 cells, or T cells. Over time, HIV destroys immune system; the body can’t fight off infections and disease (HIV/AIDS 101, 2015). AIDS stands for acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. AIDS is the final stage of…

Teen Pregnancy while it can be a controversial topic; it is a major part of our culture. There are many people who look down upon pregnant teens rather than giving them the support they need. Teenage mothers have many obstacles that the average married, adult parents do not face. Many teen mothers are unable to get a higher education and have a higher risk of being unemployed in adulthood. Stress and Depression is also higher in teen mothers than other teens and adult mothers (Collingwood…

alone, “23 teens out of 1000 are pregnant within the ages of 15-17, while 95 teens out of 1000 are pregnant within the ages of 18-19,” – (Cosmopolitan). 75% of teen pregnancies are unplanned because the teens are either looking for sex education through the internet and/or reality television shows similar to ’16 and Pregnant’ and ‘Teen Mom’, or just simply not asking their fellow peers or parents. Shows like ’16 and Pregnant’ promotes teen pregnancy because it makes teen girls believe that if…

Reducing the Teenage Pregnancy Rates Teenage pregnancy has been common for hundreds of years. Teenagers in the 1500 's were expected to marry and give birth to a son as young as 16 years old. Many young girls died while giving birth, as well as their children. The teen pregnancy rate peaked in 1957 with 97 per 1,000 teens getting pregnant. Over the past 40 years, the teenage pregnancy rate in the United States is at an all-time low. (HubPages.com) Even with this drastic decrease, our country…

United States approximately half of all pregnancies are unplanned, and half of those pregnancies occur in women between ages 16-24 years old (Kavanaugh, Frohwirth, Jerman, Popkin, & Ethier, 2013). This is a significant and important problem. In fact, one of the goals set forth by Healthy People 2020 is to improve the planning of pregnancy and prevent unplanned pregnancies (United States Department of Health and Human Services, 2014). Each year unplanned pregnancies cost taxpayers in the United…