prevent teenage pregnancy. Introduction I. It’s 3am and being a 17 year girl tucked away in your bed nice and warm; you hear blood curdling scream from the room next door. No it’s not an intruder it’s your two week old baby ready for his 3rd diaper change. II. By supporting the teaching of real life situations from sexual choices and education regarding pregnancy prevention‚ more teenagers will have access to appropriate information to make informed choices. III. A. Teenage pregnancy is a problem
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Television Media does not give a realistic image of Teen Pregnancy In the United States‚ teenage pregnancy has become a common occurrence with three out of ten girls getting pregnant before the age of twenty (Dooley). Most young teenagers feel as if conception will never come from their scandalous deeds but‚ in fact‚ it happens more often than what they think. The increasing media coverage on television programming‚ such as 16 and Pregnant and the movie‚ Juno‚ is showing the young adolescents‚ it
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(T/Thurs 9:30) 4 April 2013 “Can Teen Pregnancy be Prevented?” Nationwide‚ 50% of high school students have had sexual intercourse. Approximately 25% of adolescent females report using no contraceptive method at the time of first intercourse (Pollack 1). Even though sex education is almost universal in U.S. schools‚ its content varies and is very basic. In order to prevent rising teen pregnancy rates communities should allow more sex education in schools‚ teens should also have easier access to
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Letter to the editor on teen pregnancy DeVry University 05/10/2014 I’m writing in response to Nicole Etolin’s article‚ “The Effects of Teenage Pregnancy: Examining the Results of 12 Studies.” This brief article outlines the risks associated with teen pregnancy. Speaking as someone who has been through teen pregnancy‚ I feel that the risks Etolin points out paint a picture that is different from what I experienced. Does getting pregnant at a young age cause teen mothers to drop out
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Central Idea: I will give three reasons as to what I see as the biggest challenges are; the abuse of drugs and alcohol‚ teen pregnancies‚ and unemployment. I. Introduction A. More than half of teen mothers never get their high school diploma because they drop out of high school to provide a better parenthood for their child. B. The use of illegal drugs is increasing in young teens. An average age of first usage of marijuana is 14 and alcohol usage can start at age 12. The usage of marijuana and alcohol
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Single Motherhood and Teen Pregnancy In researching material on single mothers and teen mothers‚ the factual problems with single mother households‚ and the stereotypical problems‚ I found a few interesting issues in the resources I collected which are worth mention. The first is the general statistics of sexual activity and early pregnancy. The second deals with the conflicting views of the effects of single mother families on the children. The third deals with the financial issues of prevalent
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Abstract: Teen pregnancy is an important issue all over the country. This is an ongoing problem that must be dealt with. Teenage pregnancy can ruin a teen’s life and also the life of an infant. In this paper I will discuss the many aspects of teenage pregnancy and how it affects the life of a teenager. Each year in the US almost 1 million teens become pregnant. While the facts are clear‚ the issues of teenage pregnancy are complicated. Talk of sex is everywhere in our society and young girls
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Teenage Pregnancy: Society’s Newest Trend After being raised with three sisters‚ I’ve come to notice that your typical teenage girl spends the majority of her time thinking about clothes‚ school‚ and boys. While I could be wrong about the clothes and school part‚ the numbers give me a leg to stand on when it comes to boys‚ 76.4 girls per 1‚000 females who are pregnant are spending all of their time worrying about bringing a child into the world due to teen pregnancy (Henshaw‚ 2004). Within the
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Essay 3 By Nichole Crawford We live in a society that is fueled by instant gratification‚ exaggerated sexuality and an ever-increasing lack of moral values. Through both poor role models and a highly sexualized media‚ the adolescents of today are constantly presented with a “lassiez-faire” projection of sex. Rarely do these images accurately portray the very real damage that irresponsibility and a lack of planning can do to the lives of young adults. In fact‚ some of the portrayals in today’s
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Teenage Pregnancy: Who’s To Blame? Over the past 10 years‚ teenage pregnancy has escalated about 10%. As the years pass‚ more blames for teen pregnancy come up. The first few years that teen pregnancy became a problem‚ the people blamed the girl that became pregnant. Then as it progressed worse and worse‚ the blame pointed to the father of the unborn child. When the movie “Juno” came out in around 2009 that became blame. Then came “16 and pregnant” and “Teen Mom”. Hollywood started glamorizing teen
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