Relationships‚ love and sexuality: what the Filipino teens think and feel Jokin de Irala1*‚ Alfonso Osorio2‚ Cristina López del Burgo1‚ Vina A Belen3‚ Filipinas O de Guzman45‚ María del Carmen Calatrava1 and Antonio N Torralba3 * Corresponding author: Jokin de Irala jdeirala@unav.es Author Affiliations 1 Preventive Medicine and Public Health‚ School of Medicine‚ University of Navarra‚ Irunlarrea 1‚ 31008 Pamplona‚ Spain 2 Department of Education‚ University of Navarra‚ 31008 Pamplona‚ Spain
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RELATED LITERATURE AND STUDIES Pregnancy is said to be one of the most exciting and most awaited part of a married woman and to her partner. Physical changes on woman’s body happen‚ also‚ one should be able to adjust these bodily changes and most importantly the woman’s needs to be able to be psychologically prepared (Felipe‚ 2010). The woman is waiting for 9months to give birth to a new life that will make a family be called a family. However there are pregnancies that are untimed‚ unplanned‚
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Teenage pregnancy in the Philippines is increasingly becoming a major cause of concern. There is a rising trend of young n becoming mothers and majority of whom are married. Young pregnant women are more vulnerable to death during pregnancy while child-birth and a huge number are not physically and fictionally prepared for motherhood. This is a feet reflection that there is inadequate and accurate information on adolescent pregnancy not enough priority is given to maternal and health care. Kids
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Teenage Sex Teenagers in the United States are experimenting with sexual activities more and more today than ever before. According to Charles Krauthammer‚ "Sex oozes from every pore of the culture and there’s not a kid in the world who can avoid it." (Meier‚ 1994‚ p. 7). Teenagers are surrounded by some sort of sexual connotations all the time. Whether it is television‚ radio‚ school‚ or even the Internet‚ teenagers are hearing the affects of sex on our society. The price that teenagers pay for
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Teen pregnancy is an issue becoming increasingly more popular. Or is it? Many people believe that because so many teenage girls are getting pregnant nowadays that we live in a country where there is a “baby boom” so to speak. However‚ this is not the first time there has been an increase in the teen birth rate. It could be that our country will go through periods of “baby booms” and it is not so abnormal after all. But one question that is probably often asked and given many different answers to
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stated that the sex education has the primary role to prevent teenage pregnancies . However less than half (35 ) initiated frequent sex education with their children . Moreover ‚ the research found out that mothers` and fathers` skill in sex education varied ‚ demonstrating some uncertainty in this aspect of parenting Generally parents talked less to their children about various sexuality s with the factual s such as teenage pregnancies ‚ birth ‚ and reproduction . Not unexpectedly ‚ this research
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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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Prevent Teen Pregnancy After reading Martha Balash’s article‚ Schools Can Help to Prevent Teen Pregnancy. Balash has put time and effort into this proposal on stopping Teen Pregnancy. I think Balash’s introduction is very effective because she goes straight to the facts. She doesn’t try to mislead you with any false facts. She goes straight to the point and the point is to prevent teen pregnancy. Balash tells that schools has more influence over teen pregnancy than what the public thinks.
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TEENAGE PREGNANCY INTRODUCTION Teen Pregnancy is a major concern in todays society‚ although the teen pregnancy rate has declined over the past 20-30 years‚ the United States still has the highest teenage pregnancy rate. Most teen pregnancies that occurred 20-30 years ago were to married women‚ while today’s teen pregnancies are due to unwed mothers. REVIEW OF LITERATURE Although teenage pregnancy is decreasing over the last decade‚ there are still to many young women out there that have
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With teenage pregnancy being ever prominent‚ it is very important for teenage girls and boys to have access to birth control in order to avoid an unintended pregnancy. Birth control and sex education is a controversial subject in many communities. The type of comprehensive health education or sex education information made available to teenagers through school is dictated by law. In South Carolina‚ schools are required to teach abstinence and provide information concerning sex as a future reference
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