Informative Speech
Northern Caribbean University
College of Humanities, Behavioural and Social Sciences
Department of Communication Studies
Informative Speech Outline
In partial fulfillment of the requirements of the course
COMM 251: Oral Communication
Instructor: Ralna Simmonds
By:
Samantha Reid
60100155
Section A
12/02/2015
Topic: Should I blame Mommy and Daddy?
Introduction: Fourteen year old Stacy-Ann is five months pregnant. Her twenty-eight year old mother is unemployed and she rarely sees her father because he is always away on the farm-work programme, and when he does return to Jamaica, he never visits her. Stacey-Ann, the first of several children for both parents, lives with her mother and stepfather. She had a forty-eight year old boyfriend, with whom she had sex occasionally. Now she is pregnant with her stepfather’s brother’s child. Her mother knew and encouraged it, because it was putting food on their table and sending her and her siblings to school.
Thesis: Parents, especially mothers, in most cases, should be penalised for their underage daughters becoming pregnant.
Teenage pregnancy continues to be a major public-health challenge in Jamaica and should be addressed even more often. Teenage mothers are more likely to face maternal mortality as their bodies are not mature enough to have children. Approximately 18 per cent of children born in Jamaica are attributed to adolescent girls. They are also more likely to have premature babies, complications during labour, babies with low birth weight and low use of antenatal health care. The question is frequently asked, should parents be penalised for their underage daughters getting pregnant? While this may go for many, there are a few whose parents did not condone their unruly behaviour. Whenever an underage girl is taken in the hospital to give birth, it should be the nurses’ responsibility to call in a representative from the Child Development Agency (CDA) and or the Centre for the Investigation of Sexual
College of Humanities, Behavioural and Social Sciences
Department of Communication Studies
Informative Speech Outline
In partial fulfillment of the requirements of the course
COMM 251: Oral Communication
Instructor: Ralna Simmonds
By:
Samantha Reid
60100155
Section A
12/02/2015
Topic: Should I blame Mommy and Daddy?
Introduction: Fourteen year old Stacy-Ann is five months pregnant. Her twenty-eight year old mother is unemployed and she rarely sees her father because he is always away on the farm-work programme, and when he does return to Jamaica, he never visits her. Stacey-Ann, the first of several children for both parents, lives with her mother and stepfather. She had a forty-eight year old boyfriend, with whom she had sex occasionally. Now she is pregnant with her stepfather’s brother’s child. Her mother knew and encouraged it, because it was putting food on their table and sending her and her siblings to school.
Thesis: Parents, especially mothers, in most cases, should be penalised for their underage daughters becoming pregnant.
Teenage pregnancy continues to be a major public-health challenge in Jamaica and should be addressed even more often. Teenage mothers are more likely to face maternal mortality as their bodies are not mature enough to have children. Approximately 18 per cent of children born in Jamaica are attributed to adolescent girls. They are also more likely to have premature babies, complications during labour, babies with low birth weight and low use of antenatal health care. The question is frequently asked, should parents be penalised for their underage daughters getting pregnant? While this may go for many, there are a few whose parents did not condone their unruly behaviour. Whenever an underage girl is taken in the hospital to give birth, it should be the nurses’ responsibility to call in a representative from the Child Development Agency (CDA) and or the Centre for the Investigation of Sexual
References: Gayle, Barbara. "Better Parents Needed says Thwaites." 2 June 2013. White, Ellen G. "The Adventist Home." White, Ellen G. The Adventist Home. Washington DC: Review and Heralds Publishing Association, 1980.