Adolescent motherhood is a major difficulty that can pose significant effects on an individual’s life. Teenage mothers may have greater risks of developing complications in major areas of their life, such as education failure, deficiency, and psychological problems. Adolescent motherhood is associated with limited chances of acquiring full education. Additionally, they may face considerable social stigma and hostility during the pregnancy. Stigma may cause adolescents not to seek the required…
a curfew, being able to purchase alcohol ,and also voting rights, meaning that you are completely responsible for the actions you take. Looking at different cases where adolescents have committed a crime they knew that they weren't going to get punished like adults, even though they knew what they were doing was wrong. Adolescents commit crimes as if they were adults, and aren't…
economic and sociology Dr. Stuckler et al. (2013, as cited in Kolves & Leo, 2014), active labor market programs can minimize the negative effect of the unemployment and could have had the positive effect on the mental health of the children and adolescents. The government is responsible for implementation of this solution in cooperation with…
One study that was conducted is Adolescents’ Political Engagement. The study found that youth in general is in decline but with females there are spikes of interest. It would be interesting to look back on those spikes and to see what was happening at that time, other than “Geraldine Ferraro…
Do you think adolescents have the right to make autonomous medical choices? In my opinion I say both yes and no. I do not think the younger kids should be able to make them, I say kids about 16 and up. There can be many ups and downs to both answers for that question, but some of the ups can outweigh the downs. Which bring me to my opinion.…
the adaptation of games has increased to an advanced level, it has created more realistic violent interactions, social interactions, and violence has been a commonly connected to the use of video games. In Michael R. Ward’s article,Video Games and Adolescent Fighting, he expands on the ideas of gaming and its connection to gaming violence and human attitudes. Overall, this article goes in depth on the concept of violent video games as a prompt for negative actions and violent behavior. Ward does…
Mental health disparities among Black Canadian adolescents show a significant gap in public health policies. Despite Canada having a universal healthcare system, Black adolescents face constant barriers to access to mental health services, exacerbating disparities in mental health outcomes. Institutional racism permeates healthcare facilities, leading to discrimination, implicit biases, and unequal distribution of resources. (Salami et al., 2022) Moreover, cultural factors contribute to the…
this time of transition and change, the position the adolescents within the legal system is suspect. There is an ambiguity about the position of adolescents in the legal system because of the question about whether to treat adolecents as adults or as children. That is to say, there are two opposing opinions regarding the treatment of adolescents within the legal system. The first view is called the “adolescent-as-child” view. In this view, adolescents are more closely related to children in…
increased rate of adolescent suicide over the last decade. People believe that suicide occurs through bullying, depression, and feeling immensely overwhelmed and suicide is the only escape out of it. Researcher David Miller associates the rate of suicide among adolescents occurs by two prominent reasons that are mental illness and past suicidal behavior. Being at a certain demographic of age, sex, and sexual orientation also affects the likelihood of suicide. With the issue of adolescent suicide…
Bansal, V., Goyal, S., & Srivastava, K. (2009). Study of prevalence of depression in adolescent students in a public school. Industrial Psychiatry Journal, 18(1), 43–46. https://doi.org/10.4103/0972-6748.57859 This article details an experiment conducted in 2009 to identify if adolescent depression is typically ignored and, if so, what risk factors parents and school officials can look out for. The study determined a positive correlation between “certain factors like parental fights, beating at…