REDUCING TEENAGE PREGNANCY Although the rate of teenage pregnancy in the United States is at its lowest level in nearly 40 years‚ it remains the highest among the most developed countries in the world. Approximately 67.8 per 1‚000 women aged 15–19 — nearly 750‚000 American teenagers — become pregnant each year (Kost and Henshaw‚ 2012). The majority of these pregnancies — 82 percent — are unintended (Finer & Zolna‚ 2011). Moreover‚ because the average age of menarche has reached an all-time low
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Shayla Terrance Ethical Dilemma A.) Problem: You’re a fairly new staff member working in a Special Education‚ Special Day class (SDC) for Severely Emotionally Disturbed students (SED).A student arrives on campus that you haven’t seen in over a week and seems to be pacing around the courtyard and adamant that he doesn’t want to go to class. You approach him and chat with him about his odd behavior and he walks away. In working with these types of youth you let the student have his space
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Preventing an outbreak might always seem like the right thing to do. And that is often the case. Though the right way to prevent‚ slow‚ or stop outbreaks can present a number of ethical challenges. Fundamentally‚ the ethical challenge and epidemic response arises from the question of whether it is more helpful to prevent someone from getting sick in the future than to treat someone who is sick now. Or simply allocate those resources to addressing other social needs like housing‚ food‚ sanitation
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ETHICAL DILEMNA’S IN THE PRIVATE SECURITY SECTOR I’ve been in the Private Security sector going on twenty three years and have held numerous positions throughout the organizations I’ve worked for. The two ethical instances that come immediately to the front of my mind have to deal with moral integrity. The first instance deals with leadership and “Doing the right thing” (Ethical Leadership) and the second one is “Don’t judge a book by its cover.” This first instance I know intimately because
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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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Substance Abuse Notes Week 2 (First lecture) – 9/10 * Substance use vs. abuse * Use * The legal enjoyment of your property within socially acceptable norms * i.e. you don’t drive under the influence – that’s not socially acceptable * Consumption of any psychoactive substance * More neutral * Includes * Social drinking * 1-2 drinks on any one social occasion * Abuse * Any use of illegal
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young athletes should never do is copy or make the same mistakes athletes are making today. From preform enhancing drugs all the way to alcohol and marijuana these substance are hurting athletes‚ organization‚ and the NFL shield. So far in the NFL over thirty player have been suspended for violating the NFL policy for substances abuse or preform enhancing drugs. The NFL is only in week 11 so far and has close to a full football team of player that have been suspend. One of the biggest names on that
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Marrin Maher February 14‚ 2014 Ethical Dilemmas Regarding Same Sex Marriages Whether at home‚ at work‚ or at school‚ every day we are faced with making moral and ethical decisions. Depending on your occupation and or authority‚ some decisions could have a profound impact on society‚ individuals or groups. There are many controversial topics facing politicians and society as a whole and one hot topic is same-sex marriage. Throughout history‚ homosexuality has been considered taboo
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An Ethical Dilemma? These Friday nights out ‚drinking with your friends had become an institution since you started working with PharmChemCo(PCC)‚ one of the biggest pharmaceutical and chemical companies in the world five years ago. And‚ it had been five great years. Not only had it brought you career success and a very healthy bank balance‚ but it had also made you a successful player in the stock market. Since you were promoted to regional marketing director for the North East‚ PCC had started
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we are often not privy; they remind us of our own mortality‚ for they are on the way up‚ and we are on the way down. (p.77). Among the generation of youth a phenomenon of single-parenting and early pregnancy has long been discussed and carefully examined which others have perceived as a social dilemma that needs further attention. Adolescence as they call the stages of these youth who are socially understood to be in the most difficult phase of their development faces the challenges of coping up
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