Effects 1. Unwanted/ unplanned pregnancy 2. Abortion 3. Neglect/ Child abuse 4. Complications a. Maternal deaths b. Birth defects 5. Incomplete education a. Unemployment b. Poverty 6. Social embarrassment 7. Never-ending cycle C. Prevention 1. Self-control a. Abstinence b. Safe sex i. Birth control ii. Using condoms 2. Parents talking to children a. Balance relationship 3. Programs D. Alternatives 1. Adoption
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Provera has been used around the world‚ not always for the same purpose. The drug‚ medroxyprogesterone acetate‚ more commonly known as Depo Provera‚ was originally made to be an injectable form of long-term birth control. When Depo was first approved in the US as an effective form of birth control this seemed liked a miracle drug for women. You would not have to remember to take a pill every morning‚ fewer side effects‚ even a shorter menstrual cycle. Now with more and more complaints being filed
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industrialized world. Four in every ten American girls will get pregnant at least once before they turn twenty. Approximately seven hundred fifty thousand American teenage girls get pregnant every year resulting in about four hundred twenty thousand teen births (The National Campaign). In today’s society teenage pregnancy is a serious issue and is continuously increasing problem in the United States. To understand why the teen pregnancy rate is so high in the U.S.‚ first researchers have to analyze
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population growth rate. In the 1950s‚ existing hospitals and health care facilities made birth control information available‚ but there was no aggressive effort to encourage the use of contraceptives and limitation of family size. By the late 1960s‚ many policy makers believed that the high rate of population growth was the greatest obstacle to economic development. The government began a massive program to lower the birth rate from forty-one per 1‚000 to a target of twenty to twenty-five per 1‚000 by the
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explore their sexual identity. For heterosexual youth‚ initiation of first sexual intercourse is associated with other life course transitions such as marriage and childbirth. Are people less likely to discuss birth control with their first sexual partners? And—among those who do not use birth control—are they more likely to want a pregnancy at first sexual intercourse? In doing so‚ we examine disability both as a function of specific limiting conditions as well as the severity in which the condition limits
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any time unprotected sexual intercourse occurs‚ or when a birth control method fails. For example‚ emergency contraception can help to prevent pregnancy after a condom breaks‚ a diaphragm slips out of place‚ or birth control pills are not remembered. While there is not just one official definition of emergency contraception‚ The Whole Truth of Contraception defines it as "a means of using a copper IUD [intrauterine device] or birth control pills to prevent pregnancy after unprotected intercourse"
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fpaindia.com). In the absence of control programs‚ India ’s ever growing population will lead to increased incidents of famine‚ disease‚ environmental stress and result in a severe shortage of housing facilities. However‚ if the Indian government quickly administers population regulations so that couples have‚ on average‚ 2 children by 2001-2006‚ India ’s population will stabilize at approximately 1.7 billion (www.fpaindia.com). A drop in both the fertility and birth rates is essential. To achieve
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entering the population created by the baby boom first began to be noticed in the 1960s” (Teenage Childbearing as a Social Problem). What initially caught the attention of the public was fewer teenagers married and had fewer martial births to offset the growing number of births to single women. “As part of the teenage development stage‚ many teenagers become curious about the rapid changes in their body‚ and the strange passion of emotional feelings and attraction for the opposite sex. It is during this
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Premarital sex is considered immoral as its consequences leads to other immoral behavior and also breaking of the law. When people engage in unprotected premarital sex‚ it will lead to unwanted pregnancies and children born out of wedlock. This leads to mental and emotional stress for couples who are not ready to bear the responsibility of having children. As premarital sex often occurs throughout teenage years and among teenagers and adolescents‚ many are not ready for unwanted pregnancies after
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family issues‚ etc. Poverty plays a big role in teen birth rates‚ as does geography. Education
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