Teenage pregnancy

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…

number of teenage mothers who did not receive a high school diploma or GED. According to figure one, Latino mothers have the greatest number of high school dropout rates. Followed by them, the graph shows white mothers at 45% and black mothers at 33%. Considering the number is high as it is, schools need to be involved more to prevent all teenage parents, mothers and fathers from having to resort to dropping out of school. Another reason why schools should do more to prevent pregnancy is…

I think shows like Teen Mom have now began to glamorize teen pregnancy because of the money and capitalism that goes on behind the scenes, that TV viewers are unable to see. In the first season of Teen Mom, which was originally called Sixteen and Pregnant, this show seemed more realistic, displaying financial, relationship, and family strains and difficulties because of a teenage pregnancy than Teen Mom that is not being shown on TV for young girls to watch. The mothers on Teen Mom are in a very…

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…

The popular TV series 16 & Pregnant was produced by Morgan J. Freeman. The producers of 16 & Pregnant capture the lives of teenage moms before and after the birth of their children. The reality TV show was produced to show how hard it is to be a teen mom; however, the producers glamorize the teen’s journey through and after their pregnancy. In reality every teen mom do not have the financial support, family support or the publicity that the cast members of this reality TV show is shown to have.…

prevent pregnancy. What is hard to understand is why the parents think that if you teach them that how to use birth control, it encourages teens to have sex. That is completely wrong to educate is not to encourage. Sure, abstaining is one way to prevent having a child, but there are so many other ways to prevent it. There are so many different types of birth control…

The topic I chose to discuss is that of teen pregnancy. Teen pregnancy during the year of 2012, there was over 100,000 babies that were born to adolescences between the ages of 15 to 19 years of age. Though the numbers may seem high it is actually a 6% drop from the previous year 2011. Teen Pregnancy is considered difficult due to the continuous pressure to not only fit in but to also identify with who you are. The scholarly article I selected discusses the necessity for teenagers (especially…

social issues are the increase rate of teen pregnancy with teenage girls between the ages of 14-17. The concern of this problem has increased over the last decade in an urban town in the mid-western part of the United States (case study, 2017). Nevertheless, due to a lack of Economic opportunities, and resources the absence of the industry in the area, has taken this city into…

Office of Adolescent Health analyzed the trends in teen births, variations in teen birth rates across populations (ethnicity between ages 15-19) and characteristics associated with adolescent childbearing in their article entitled Trends in Teen Pregnancy and Childbearing. According to Office of Adolescent Health, in 2013, there were 26.5 births for every 1,000 adolescent females age 15-19 or 273,105 babies born to females in this age group. Nearly eighty-nine percent of these births occurred…

this law the abortion rates were low, but pregnancy rates were still high. The possible reason for this is, because no one is enforcing this type of…