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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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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by her mother’s “friend”. As a result‚ she has an unwanted pregnancy. She is angry with her mother because she didn’t do anything to protect her. People in society are misjudging her. Yah-yah is frustrated and on the verge of suicide. Teenage pregnancy has been a phenomenon since biblical ages. Dr. Michelle Golland stated‚ The United States has the highest teen pregnancy rate in the industrialized world. There are 750‚000 teen pregnancies annually. The Caribbean has not escaped this plague. A study
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Teenage Pregnancy and a Way to Prevent It Teenage pregnancy it can ’t happen to me. This is the mindset that most teenagers have these days. Teenagers feel that they are invincible and that things‚ such as pregnancy‚ happens to others‚ but that they are immune to it. A lot of teenagers believe that you can ’t get pregnant the first time you have sex‚ if a girl is on her period‚ pregnancy cannot occur‚ among other myths. The reason teens believe this is that the education on sex isn ’t teaching
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LEGAZPI CITY‚ Albay - Teenage pregnancies in the Philippines surged by 70 percent over one decade‚ a ranking official of the United Nation Population Fund Agency (UNFPA) said on Monday. Ugochi Daniels‚ UNFPA country representative‚ said the rising number of teenage pregnancies in the country is an area of concern that the agency is giving serious attention to‚ exposing as it does adolescent girls (10 to 19 years old) to high risk. Daniels said a strong advocacy campaign is needed to educate
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Teenage Pregnancy Teenage pregnancy in the media influences young girls that it is okay to have children at a young age. The media glamorizes teen pregnancy and makes ordinary pregnant girls famous for the problem they have created. The different programs on television may show you that the teens struggle‚ but it also shows you how the girls get attention from everyone. They are being glamorized for something that isn’t good. Also‚ some young girls don’t always get the attention they want‚ so they
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Teen pregnancies in the Philippines By Rebecca B. Singson Philippine Daily Inquirer First Posted 00:55:00 06/14/2008 Filed Under: Health‚ Lifestyle & Leisure‚ Gender Issues (First in a series) MANILA‚ Philippines?The sexual revolution has ushered in a period in which the average adolescent experiences tremendous pressures to have sexual experiences of all kinds. Filipino teens get a higher exposure to sex from the Internet‚ magazines‚ TV shows‚ movies and other media than decades ago‚
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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 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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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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