Teenage pregnancy

Decent Essays
Improved Essays
Superior Essays
Great Essays
Brilliant Essays
    Page 8 of 50 - About 500 Essays
  • Improved Essays

    This research discusses how teens who have the same backgrounds make very different choices when it comes to avoiding teen pregnancy. The research will take a deeper look on if the teen circumstances are the same, then why are 1 out 3 girls get pregnant and others avoid pregnancy. The research done is through qualitative-quantitative methods. The quantitative study design was a neighbor case control design. The focus groups had 6 to 8 girls in each group ranging from middle school to high…

    • 1124 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    contribution to teen pregnancy, and getting pregnant during the teen years makes it harder to break that cycle of poverty. Ipatenco address possibilities that cause teen pregnancies, such as lack of education, no funds for birth control, life situations, and considerations. Ipatenco article argues that teen parenthood is more likely in girls who come from families with certain life factors and family history. According to the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, teen pregnancy is more…

    • 1538 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Surprisingly, teen pregnancy rates have dropped over the years. Between 2007 and 2012, one-third the rate in the mid-2000s dropped. According to the Center of Disease Control and Prevention, there was a six percent decrease from 2011 to 2012. I was not surprised to find in my search that teen minorities have always had higher birth rates than white teens. African Americans have the greater decline compared to the white. African-American girls ages 15-19 had a pregnancy rate 60% higher than their…

    • 1205 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Great Essays

    Teenage pregnancy is an issue of international significance and relevance to social services. The rate of adolescent pregnancies have increased as sexual activities are becoming more prevalent at younger ages (Silva & Stanton, 1996). For the purpose of this essay, this issue will be defined as unplanned or unwanted pregnancy in women under the age of eighteen, or below the legal age of adulthood. Because early parenting correlated with poorer outcomes for children and the mother, it has become a…

    • 1678 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Clicking through channels on a Tuesday afternoon, past the news channel “Teen pregnancy is at a 10 year low!” (3. Koh) past MTV’s latest episode of Teen Mom and finally to a nice episode of Snapped. “Pssh. I would have more to worried about on Snapped than teen pregnancy,” I say aloud to myself. Just as the last commercials end to the final segment of the show, Alice comes running through the door, crying and runs straight through the living room and slams her bedroom door shut. I look at the…

    • 1074 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Teenage Pregnancy. The Issues. Teenage pregnancy is a widely discussed topic with many different and completely opposite points of view. Ranging from great positives and support and encouragement for the teens undergoing this huge change in their lives and bitter disappointment and down look at teenagers who this has happened to. Due to the dramatic increase and decreases that have been happening these past few years, this subject clearly needs to be discussed in more detail. There are many…

    • 1221 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Smith Mr. Ryan Wyckoff Informative Outline Speech on Teen Pregnancy Introduction Attention Getter: In the United States more than 50% of all pregnancies are not planned and 60 out of every 1,000 pregnancies are females between the ages of 15-19. (Pre-Teen and Teenage Pregnancy, Moir, and Leishman) Relevance Statement: In 2009, 400,000 teenagers gave birth in the United States. On average taxpayers pay around $4,080 annually per teenage mother, and considering the debt our state is in right…

    • 855 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    pregnant” promote or discourage teenage pregnancy, it seems like the show is not promoting, it is actually discouraging. My research has shown that only after eighteen months the show aired, the show led to a 5.7% reduction in teen births. Statistics show that the United States teen birth rate have went down majorly over the past twenty years. Furthermore, many teens are watching the show just to enjoy, not for encouragement. I agree that the show discourages teenage pregnancy because my…

    • 1722 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Topic: Teenage pregnancy is a serious Social Problem Pregnancy is a natural condition that usually brings joy and positively changing people’s life. Even though, pregnancy could be one of the best experiences for women; however when it is contracting too early in life it may cause more defects than benefits. Teen pregnancy is being tagged as one the most important social problems in United States, about 90% of teens become pregnant yearly unintentionally and half of these pregnancies result…

    • 1392 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Pregnant” Promote Teenage Pregnancy? Teenage pregnancy has become a popular topic of entertainment for American television. There are dozens of shows and movies that depict a young girl and her challenging lifestyle once a child is brought into the picture. The most common concern with these shows is simple: do shows like “16 and Pregnant” promote teenage pregnancy? The answer is also simple: no. Television shows and movies do not glorify young mothers. These shows portray teenage parenthood…

    • 1093 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Page 1 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 50