Population Fund (UNFPA) released on May 7‚ showing that The Philippines has the highest rate of teenage pregnancy in Asia‚ a 25-year-old teacher‚ Nelson Ingking‚ from Talibon‚ Bohol‚ said that he deals with a lot of students who are attention-starved at home. He said that this is reflected in their behaviour at school and they tend to be problematic‚ but it also manifests itself in their social life‚ as they look to a boyfriend or girlfriend to compensate for what they are missing out on at home
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T04 1003268H Preliminary Information Title of presentation: Increase in Teenage Boy-girl Relationships in Singapore Central idea/thesis: Statistics and trends of teenage dating in Singapore 1. Introduction (A) Attention-getter: Now if I could just get the guys and the girls in the room to turn and face each other for a bit
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Name: Institution: Subject: Date: Teenage Abortion The introduction of laws—the Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act and the Child Custody Protection Act—making it mandatory for medical practitioners to request for parental involvement in abortion-related decision-making has led to a massive drop in cases of teenage abortion in the US. According to New‚ since the introduction of these laws there has been a 50% reduction in cases of teenage abortion (3). The incidence of abortion among
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behavioral intervention. Although this relationship generally holds true‚ there is still significant variability across countries of similar economic standing‚ suggesting that public policy is able to influence rates of teen pregnancy.1 Others argue that ‘teenage-hood’ is a social construct‚ not recognized by cultures like the amaXhosa‚ for example.2 Certainly it is true that social mores swarm like angry bees around adolescence‚ because it is an intense period of sexual change. In dealing with issues of fertility
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Teenage pregnancy could be defined as a girl attaining motherhood before she reaches the legal age of adulthood. Rates of teenage pregnancy in Jamaica are among the highest in the Caribbean‚ with females between the ages of fifteen to nineteen years of age being responsible for one hundred and eight births per thousand women. Females between the ages of ten and nineteen account for twenty-five percent of births in Jamaica‚ and twenty-two percent of births between fifteen to nineteen year olds are
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BACKGROUND AND STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM Teenage pregnancy is a common social problem in both Western and Eastern cultures. In United States‚ the statistics show that more than 3‚000 teens get pregnant every day and the half them give births (McCoullough & Scherman(1991)‚ cited in Yucel‚ 2003). Although teenage pregnancy may be considered as a positive experience‚ studies show that teenage pregnancy is associated with psychological‚ social and physical problems. The pregnancy rates reveal that
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Teenage Promiscuity ABSTRACT Teen promiscuity has been a major problem in our society and over the last decade‚ more and more teenagers are losing their virginity at younger ages. This paper examines teen promiscuity‚ the causes behind why teenagers engage in sexually activities and the consequences of having multiple sex partners. The paper also explains how the behaviour of teens is directly related to their physiological and psychological changes and suggests several solutions that can
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References: Absolute Astronomy (2010) Teenage suicide: Facts‚ Discussion Forum‚ and Encyclopedia Article http://www.absoluteastronomy.com American Psychiatric Association (2000) Diagnostic Criteria from DSM-IV-TR. Angelfire (2010) Teen Suicide‚ Retrieved on October 1‚ 2010 from Adolescent
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TEENAGE PREGNANCY Teenage pregnancy is defined as a pregnancy in girls within the age from 13 to 19‚ who have not graduated from their studies have few or no qualification for jobs and are financially rely on her parents. As mentioned by Michael (2010)‚ the department has already seen 131 of such cases in 2009 and this number is a dramatic increase from the 107 cases in 2008 (“Teen pregnancies on the risk with 111 reported this year”‚ 2010). In this essay‚ two causes and one effect of teenage
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the ages of 14 and 19 are married (Chan). Teenage marriage is a large issue because of the intellectual‚ economic and mental toll it takes on its advocates. Married teens are more likely to drop out of high school and have lower incomes than those who get married at a mature age. Also‚ teens are more likely to be divorced from their wedlock partners within 15 years of being married at an adolescent age than those who get married older (Stritof). Teenage marriage is an unhealthy decision and should
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