Teenage Birth Sociology

Even though teen births have decreased since the early 1990s, the US still has the highest teen birth rate among developed countries. The current research paper purpose is to lend support to the hypothesis by exploring the relationship between poverty and teen births among urban teens. Using data from Child development Supplement Codebook with selected variables from the 1997, 2002, 2007, and 2009-2013 CDS, I observed that being in poverty, and being a female increased the likelihood of having a teen birth.

Introduction Teen childbirth is between the ages of 13 and 19 years of age. Teen childbirth is normally is unplanned. Teenage childbirth has been a public health issue for many years. Overall, the teen childbirth rate has
In this paper, I will focus on specifically poverty and its likelihood to increase teen births among urban girls using variables from the child development supplement data set.
It is important for social workers to know about the relationship between poverty/income and teen births because teenage birth is a social problem that needs to be addressed and interventions are needed to make a better outcome for the lives of our youth. Understanding the relationship between income and teen births help social workers get better outcomes by development of programs such as early intervention and educational programs that could possibly decrease teen childbirth and improve the lives of young women and men to have better outcomes.
Literature
The research suggests that substance use and teen pregnancy are linked. They highlight the overlapping etiology of substance use with association in sexual risk behaviors, such as unprotected sex, which places the teen at risk for early pregnancy (Salas-Wright, Todic, Ugalde, and Vaughn (2015). In a more recent study Salas-Wright et al. (2015) provided a comprehensive examination of substance use among pregnant teens in the US. The findings suggested that pregnant teen females are significantly more likely to have experimented with alcohol, marijuana, and other illegal drugs and are far more likely to meet criteria for substance use disorders compared to their non-pregnant counterparts. These findings extend prior research highlighting the shared etiology of health risk behaviors among teens and evidence that substance use is related to increased likelihood of risky sexual behaviors and outcomes, including unprotected sex and early pregnancy (Salas-Wright et al.,