Teenage pregnancy

In this article the main focus was on adolescent girls and their knowledge of the possible dangers of teenage pregnancy. The study that was done was interesting and came up with some results that were a little bit surprising. There were also aspects of this article that showed up in the textbook, such as adolescent pregnancy as a whole, and the consequences of adolescent pregnancy. By having this information allows for teachers to use it to their benefit when it comes to situations that may…

Teen pregnancy is preventable when the right methods are being used. Birth Control is one of the many approaches of doing so. It is shocking to take into consideration the rate of teen pregnancies present in the United States alone. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “In 2015, a total of 229,715 babies were born to women aged 15-19 years” (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). Birth Control is not being further endorsed to young teenage girls even when the rate…

Teen Pregnancy Imagine having to make it as a teen parent on your own sounds scary right, well being a teen parent isn’t really cracked up what it all suppose to be, You wont believe how many single teen mothers and teen fathers there are that don’t get to graduate from high school. Teen pregnancy is emerging issue because some teen moms don’t get to graduate nor do they get to finish college because they are busy having to take care of their babies, and while having to worry about taking…

avoid unplanned pregnancies.” Although teenage pregnancy rates have decreased due to improved contraceptive usage, Santelli at el. (2007) found that the United States still has high rates of teen pregnancy compared to other developed countries. This law creates a public health issue because prohibiting adolescents from receiving…

policy analysis paper is to assess policies within TANF that foster the issue of preventing teen pregnancies in the United States. Teen pregnancy affects the lives of young females in the United States on a socio-economic, emotional, and societal level each year and continues to be an ongoing issue with little effective solutions. According to Clemmitt (2010) the steady increase of teen pregnancies since 2005 are contributed by various factors including lack of usage of contraceptives and less…

Since the early nineties, the rates of teenage childbearing have decreased in the United States. Though the rates are declining, more than one million adolescent pregnancies still occur (Saewyc, 2004). Applying the conflict theory amongst the social phenomenon can help identify which categories of the population are more prevalent and conflicted. The theoretical perspective to help analyze which category of the population teenage pregnancy is most involved in is to understand the conflict…

reprimanding. That is the source of the concept of social imagination. ‘Trouble’ and ‘Issues’ in our society have a comparative but completely different meaning. One deals with the individual and the others deals with influences. In questioning teenage pregnancies, we have to assess and comprehend how sexuality and motherhood is defined in your society. We also have to analyze what categories we put young pregnant women into. Is it a fallacy that we’re secretly praising them as heroin’s or are…

A brief discussion of some of the factors often associated with adolescent pregnancy will follow. 2.3.1 Female Gender Role Firstly, three concepts need to be defined, that is, gender; gender role and gender typing. According to Galambos (2004) the term ‘gender’ refers to characteristics learnt or acquired by either sex from their society. It is part of that by which individuals define themselves, and give meaning to their actions. Gender role on the other hand refers to appropriate behaviour for…

the teenage group of age (Marino, 2016). According to Better Health Channel, 50% of all Australian teenagers in Year 12 have had sex and one in four of them do not use contraception, leading to countless unexpected pregnancies and hence, teenage parenthood. The positive reducing number of adolescent mothers over the year (Figure 1) however does not imply that the processes of pregnancy and parenting would have any less significant impacts on the girls. Some of the various challenges teenage mums…

Defeat the Stereotype Proverbs 24:16 says, “For the righteous one may fall seven times, and he will get up again, But the wicked will be made to stumble by calamity.” If God forgives, why do we let other people’s opinions get to us? There are teenage girls who do not come from a religious family or even a family who cares, which may lead them to make the wrong choices. Having sex before marriage has many risks, but becoming pregnant at a young age can be one of the toughest consequences to deal…