Teenage pregnancy problem Significance of problem in research Nowadays‚ The situation with children and youth problem in Thailand was intensified higher in every side. The problem of premature sex and lack of knowledge of contraception among children and youth in Thailand was another problem that tends to severity and seriousness every year. One factor which comes from the spread of inappropriate or obscene due to technology and media that have advancement of any type. The children and youth who
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Teenage Pregnancy 5/2/12 Purpose: To persuade the audience to support the prevention of teenage pregnancy. Thesis: The problem of teenage pregnancy should be prevented rather than glorified. Claim: Policy Organizational Pattern: Problem-Solution I. Introduction A. Attention Getter: In today’s society‚ teens are faced with many pressures. The effect of these pressures put on them is the inability to make good decisions when it comes to certain situations
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Teenage Pregnancy Prevention Anne Maxa English Composition II American InterContinental University November 20‚ 2011 Annotated Bibliography ------------------------------------------------- Essay Outline I. Thesis Statement: Teen pregnancy can easily be prevented with better educated teens‚ better communication between teens and parents‚ and the knowledge of contraceptives II. Teens will be less likely to become pregnant with better education. A. Classes offered in schools
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Introduction Teenage pregnancies have become a topic of discussion within most households of today’s society. Recent television shows such as Teen Mom and The Secret Life of an American Teenager has introduced a topic in a major way. Within the past twenty years‚ the amount of teenage pregnancy has increased by 10 percent (Brown). According to the Medical dictionary teen pregnancy is defined as “Pregnancy by a female‚ age 13 to 19‚ which is understood to occur in a girl who hasn’t completed her
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Conclusion Teen pregnancy is a pregnancy in female human-beings who are below the age of twenty years and being a teen parent it isn’t as great as it sounds. Teen pregnancy should be highly discouraged has it has effect on the teenage mother and the baby born. The teen mother may face complications such as premature labor‚ medical complication during the pregnancy period‚ at child birth or after child birth and are likely to drop out of school. One cause for an early pregnancy for a teenager is
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Teenage pregnancies have suddenly become an epidemic in our generation. This resulted to teenage mothers dropping out of school and ending up on welfare‚ barely able to support their child. In worst cases‚ teenagers who give birth die through the ordeal‚ as their bodies are not prepared to handle childbirth. So why do teenage girls get pregnant? There are a number of causes to why this is so. Firstly‚ teenagers themselves are responsible for the increase of teen pregnancies. The lack of knowledge
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Adolescent pregnancy - Overview Alternative Names Teenage pregnancy; Pregnancy - teenage Definition of Adolescent pregnancy: Adolescent pregnancy is pregnancy in girls age 19 or younger. Causes‚ incidence‚ and risk factors: The rate of adolescent pregnancy and the birth rate for adolescents have generally declined since reaching an all-time high in 1990‚ mostly due to the increased use of condoms. Adolescent pregnancy is a complex issue with many reasons for concern. Younger adolescents (12
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Social Construction of Teenage Pregnancy in the United States: Race‚ Class and Gender In the United States‚ an estimated forty five percent of all female teenagers have premarital sex. As a result‚ about forty percent of all female adolescents become pregnant at least once before age twenty; and about four-fifths of these pregnancies are unintended. Twenty percent of these female adolescents bear a child‚ and about half of them are unmarried (Lawson and Rhode‚ 2). In a society that associates
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Psychological Effects of Teenage Pregnancy In recent years‚ the rate of teen pregnancies in America has increased dramatically. Approximately 750‚000 teenage girls between the ages of 15 and 19 become pregnant every year‚ according to the Guttmacher Institute. Within this number‚ 82% of the pregnancies are unplanned. The psychological effects of these pregnancies can be severe. Birth and Post-Birth Issues * More than half of teenage pregnancies continue to birth. According to a researcher
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Condoms should be distributed in schools because of the growing number of teenage pregnancy‚ to minimize the spread of sexually transmitted diseases among adolescent and it is a good investment for the government to help control students irresponsible sexual behavior. Everyday thousands of sexually active teenagers are putting themselves at risk of getting pregnant‚ and as such there is an alarming rate of teenage pregnancies in schools which can have a negative impact on most teenagers’ life. According
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