English 1102 30 June 2013 Teen Pregnancy: Educating the Future Parents of Our Society In 2012 in the United States‚ the rate of teen pregnancy is at its lowest level in nearly forty years. However‚ teen pregnancy still remains the highest among the developed countries in the world (Weiss 1). Most teenage girls are getting pregnant at a rapid rate. Pregnancies can occur because of the misusage of condoms‚ unawareness of birth control‚ or intentionally. Some pregnancies are unintentional and unplanned
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DISCUSSIONS Definition and explanation of teenage Pregnancy Teenage pregnancy is simply defined teenage girl who became pregnant at an early age. The term connotes that the girl has not reach the legal adulthood before conceiving. Like United States‚ our country‚ Philippines also facing this kind of problem. Our government discusses how to prevent and low down the rate of pregnancy especially in the teenagers. Most cases of teenage pregnancies are observed in the lower economic strata of society
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Glamorizes Teen Pregnancy Media‚ specifically television has taken the issue of teen pregnancy to a whole other level. The shows 16 and Pregnant‚ Teen Mom‚ and The Secret Life of the American Teenager document the lives of young teenage girls facing the issue of being a pregnant teenager. Originally created to show the controversial subject of teen pregnancy‚ all of these shows soon began to change. As the seasons continued in all three of these shows‚ the controversial subject of teen pregnancy soon
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or Not To Tolerate Teen pregnancy costs the United States over $7 billion annually according to the National Campaign of Prevention. Although this number is astronomically high‚ the money donated is in fact put to good use. Students (7-12 grades) cannot comprehend the amount of responsibility‚ anxiety‚ and stress a teenage parent undergoes. As high school students do not have to face these factors they are inconsiderate to the amount of work a teen parent actually takes on. Nearly half
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SAT’s to picking a college‚ life can seem overwhelming. One of the most important things to them‚ however‚ may possibly relationships and sexual ones at that. The purpose of our survey was to find out just how much teenagers really know about teen pregnancy and awareness. The questions we asked we really geared towards gauging their knowledge on the topic to see how much education they had received in the past. Another purpose‚ I feel‚ was to find out what changes could be made in sex education
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Prevention of Teen Pregnancy Specific Purpose: To persuade others to help prevent teen pregnancy. Thesis Statement: Teen pregnancy is one of the most difficult experiences a young woman passes through. The stress of pregnancy‚ revealing of the pregnancy to parents‚ and moving on despite the shame and worry can be terrifying. Some may say they did not use protection because they weren’t planning to have sex. These kinds of life altering choices must be considered in advance in order to prevent teen pregnancy
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Preventing Teen Pregnancies Teen pregnancies has always been an issue in the United States and factors related to teen pregnancy include the lack of sex education being taught in public schools should include the consequences of having sex . Sex education should be taught in schools because teen pregnancies have become too common among teenage girls‚and teens aren’t developmentally ready to become parents. Today the United States has the highest rate of teen pregnancy in the developed world with
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According to the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy there has been a decline in teen pregnancy since the 1990’s. Despite the decline in teen pregnancy the rates in the U.S. are still too high. Thirty percent of the teenage girls get pregnant at least once before they reach age 20 (National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy‚ 2006). Instead of becoming comfortable with knowing the teen pregnancy rate is declining‚ prevention programs need to continue as well as change with the
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other gender. As a result‚ teenagers have sex activities for a try. One of the consequences they have to bear is pregnancy due to a lack of birth control methods. Teenage sex has become a serious problem‚ even though sex actually has consequences‚ both emotionally and physically. Unfortunately‚ most teenagers often do not think about sex seriously. As a matter of fact‚ teen pregnancy has recently increased in the United States because of early puberty‚ lack of the parents ’ care‚ and impact of drugs
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Consequences of teen pregnancy to mother‚ infant‚ and community 1 Consequences of teen pregnancy to the mother‚ infant‚ and to the community Terra Allen HCA 402 Professor Patricia Pierce Consequences of teen pregnancy to the mother‚ infant‚ and community 2 Teen pregnancy has negative effects on teens‚ and the infant including low birth rate‚ poor nutrition‚ and infant mortality. Valanis stated
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