will find up to three million viewers tuning in to watch the show Teen Mom‚ which is a spinoff of the reality show 16 and Pregnant that started in 2009. The girls on the show have volunteered themselves to put their lives on television and have people across the nation watch them struggle to survive as a teenager with a child right by their side. Today’s pop culture celebrates teen pregnancy by having shows on television like MTV’s Teen Mom and 16 and Pregnant‚ not to mention‚ the stars on the show
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Birth Control is the Best Way to Fight with Teenage Pregnancy Teen pregnancy is frequently discussed all over the country and the efforts have not reduced the numbers‚ as teens continue to have unsafe sex which eventually leads to pregnancy. These developments led different experts to consider the issue of abstinence‚ abortion‚ and general sex education in order to reduce the rates of pregnancy among teens. The average teen will be curious about sex when he or she starts puberty and begins to be
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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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the health issue of teenage pregnancy. I will then discuss the view from a ‘Biopsychosocial’ perspective‚ which will include explanations as to why pregnancy occurs amongst teenagers. This assignment will include a portfolio of evidence which I collected from various sources about teenage pregnancies. About teenage pregnancy According to‚ (UNICEF‚ 2008) Teenage pregnancy is defined as a teenage girl‚ typically within the ages of 13-19‚ becoming pregnant. Teenage pregnancy commonly refers to girls
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Sexting Among Teens and the Dangers it Poses The advancement of high-tech has produced a new low. The term “sexting” is a combination of the words sex and texting‚ and is the practice of sending sexually explicit photos electronically by cell phone. Over the past few years‚ sexting has become more common and almost “fashionable” among teen-agers. Many teens are under the impression that this is harmless and no one gets hurt. It is dangerous and destructive behavior‚ often leading to unwanted circumstances
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References: 1. Bennet V. R‚ Brown L. K. (1999). Myles Textbook for midwives 13th edition. Churchill Livingstone. New York. 2. Anaemia. Available at htt://en.wikipedia.org 3. Anaemia in pregnancy. Available at htt://www.chkd.org ROSE NJERI WANGARI MBOGO
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teenage pregnancy has been labeled a major issue amongst teens that it can be known as an "Epidemic." Is teenage pregnancy directly responsible for a host of society’s ills? Increasing teenage pregnancy rate translates directly into increasing rates of "school failure‚" early behavioral problems‚ drug abuse‚ child abuse‚ depression‚ and crimes. Many social problems can be directly attributed to the poor choices of teenage girls. The talk shows today are flooded by episodes dealing with teen pregnancies
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"Teenage pregnancy" For me Teenage pregnancy is defined as a teenage or underage girl‚ usually within the ages of 13-17‚ becoming pregnant. The term in everyday speech usually refers to women who have not reached legal adulthood‚ which varies across the world‚ who become pregnant. When I heard about it the question that goes in my mind is that‚ “what is the cause of it?”. I’d asked my friends about it‚ base on my them and I agree on it‚ the first
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you finish that essay last night that’s due for English"? " What essay? I’ve been up all night on Facebook‚ I totally forgot about the essay. Oh well." Sometimes being on social media or in general‚ the internet can really distract young teens. It distracts them on what they need to work on for school. Most students actually fall back in assignments and lack on doing homework when they spend too much time on the internet. This can affect their grades and then really have a bad effect on their future
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Teenage pregnancy could be defined as a girl attaining motherhood before she reaches the legal age of adulthood. Rates of teenage pregnancy in Jamaica are among the highest in the Caribbean‚ with females between the ages of fifteen to nineteen years of age being responsible for one hundred and eight births per thousand women. Females between the ages of ten and nineteen account for twenty-five percent of births in Jamaica‚ and twenty-two percent of births between fifteen to nineteen year olds are
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