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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Teens and Stress: It’s Not Just The Hormones At the edge of darkness‚ uncertain and lost‚ there are some who find themselves in what seems like an irreversible situation. Sometimes these individuals can only see one solution left; taking the plunge into the shadows. Youth suicide has been a serious problem in many countries over the past four decades (Gregoire). Statistics show that every year 200‚000 teenagers worldwide commit suicide‚ and approximately 4 million adolescents attempt it (Gregoire)
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Teen Abortion Introduction 1.) An abortion is a procedure to end a pregnancy. It uses medicine or surgery to remove the embryo or fetus and placenta from the uterus. The procedure is normally done by a licensed health care professional. 2.) Parents should be notified if their teen age child is pregnant‚ and work together with a professional to better comphrehend their rights and how to overcome the ramifications. 3.) Teen abortion is one of the ways used to circumvent teen pregnancy;
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1999). The rate of Teenage Pregnancy rose from 23.9 births per 1000 single female teenagers in 1975 to 31.4 in 1985‚ and to 46.4 in 1994. In the last part of the 90s‚ the rate had dropped by16 percent. For teenagers between 15 and 19 years‚ the rate of teen pregnancy had dropped by 36 per cent by 2002 and 33 per cent by 2004 (Gallagher‚ M.‚ 1999). Until recent times‚ Teenage pregnancy was considered an abomination and a mockery to a family. It carried a stigma and a disgrace to the young mothers and their
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United States. Teen girls are becoming pregnant at a huge rate with a lot of the pregnancies being planned. Enough is not being done to educate or prepare these teen about how their lives will change in the event of pregnancy. There are at least 5 television shows featuring teen pregnancies‚ or teen moms including ‘’16 and Pregnant’’ and ‘’Teen Mom’’‚ it’s basically giving teenagers the idea that it id alright to have sex before marriage and become pregnant. In a way‚ these shows condone teen pregnancy
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Teen pregnancy is on the rise after so many decades of its declination. This in some part may be related to teens not knowing enough information to protect their selves before they have sex‚ peer pressure‚ and not knowing how to properly prevent a pregnancy from happening to them. Teen pregnancy is an issue that seems to be gaining more popularity in the past few years. This is a problem because how is someone who is only a teenager‚ supposed to be ready to be a parent? Most teen moms do not feel
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twenty one. This was a way for Congress to try to reduce drunk driving ("Why Is the Legal Drinking Age 21 in the United States?"). A few reasons for teens to drink are: peer pressure‚ enjoyment‚ etc. But the main reason for doing so is “breaking the law.” Eighty percent of high school seniors have used alcohol. That means that a large quantity of teens under the age of seventeen to eighteen have used alcohol before. Just the
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Teen suicide is “the third-leading cause of death for young people age 15 to 24. (American Psychological Association) According to the research of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention(CDC)‚ nearly 1‚700 teenagers in the US commit suicide annually because emotional‚ social and family pressures. Teenagers are in the gray area between childhood and adulthood‚ and on the way to find out their own sexual identity and relationships with others. Also‚ they are under great pressure to be independence
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anything bought or taken in barter. “There are roughly 400‚000 teen births every year in the United States‚ with about $9 billion in associated public costs.” (Krisberg‚ Kim. "Teen Pregnancy Prevention Focusing on Evidence." Nation’s Health. Apr 2010: 1. SIRS Issues Researcher. Web. 08 Dec 2011.) Teen pregnancy is costly to everyone in the US due to lack of medical insurance‚ financial stability and responsibility of a young teen parent. Most teen mothers are on Medicaid to pay for the pregnancy‚ food stamps
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Sharing a room is difficult. Having a younger sister means mess‚ mess‚ and more mess. I try to arrange things a certain way and find them completely changed by the time I get home at the end of the day. Despite the downsides of sharing‚ I love my room because of the way it has changed throughout the years. The first thing you notice as you enter my bedroom is the blue stars on the white walls‚ and the cherry laminated wood flooring. The size of the room is not big neither small‚ just average sized
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