most number of teenage pregnancy cases‚ it is also alarming to know that the Philippines‚ among the ASEAN sectors‚ is the only nation wherein the rate is increasing. Adolescents make up twenty one percent of the total population of the Philippines‚ and about ten percent of the girls who are aged fifteen to nineteen have already gotten pregnant. These numbers are striking for a country that is dubbed as conservative‚ but these are the facts and it must be faced. Teenage pregnancy is a serious crisis
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number2‚ as to why government agencies are getting more conservative regarding drinking during pregnancy. I personally believe the government wants to be stricter on the drinking-during-pregnancy matter because of the outcomes and effects towards the community. Pregnant mothers that drink during pregnancy are already at a small percentage of risk for a child with developmental-defects. The more at-risk children‚ the more attention these children need in school‚ in the home environment‚ and in public
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obtain information on a baby’s health before they are born. This new technology will definitely improve the quality of human life. Diseases will be diminished and through new advances some diseases might even be eliminated. Children will be at less risk to have major health problems in their lives adding positively to their life experience. Prenatal genetic testing will also affects society as a whole. Many people have a negative outlook on prenatal genetic testing but that is because they
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First Draft – How can Teenage Pregnancy be Prevented? Most adolescent women have no intention of becoming pregnant. Within the past ten years‚ pregnancy rates among teenager’s have skyrocketed and a solution to this problem has still yet to be found. “School sex and relationships education has very little impact on teenage pregnancy rates‚ according to new research.” (Bloom‚ 2012) The increase of pregnancy has become an issue that has concerned American’s for the past twenty years. But the real
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combined area of concern as these herbicide resins and insecticidal toxins are present in Roundup-tolerant GM plants such as corn‚ soybeans‚ canola‚ cotton‚ sugar beets‚ and alfalfa. Although some scientists believe that GM foods do not present a risk to human health‚ evidence on the contrary has shown that exposure to the aforementioned pesticides are finding their way into the bloodstreams of pregnant woman and their fetuses. With this information‚ it is the aim of my paper to prove that there
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Title: Illegitimate Pregnancy Problem statement According to the Reproductive Rights Advocacy Alliance of Malaysia (RRAAM)‚ “Illegitimate pregnancy is not socially acceptable due to society’s religious view.” Illegitimacy is not a widely used word today‚ and young people may not even recognize it as an insult. The term designated unmarried mothers‚ unmarried fathers‚ and their unlucky children as deviants. All were called “illegitimate‚” and illegitimate children were sometimes also called
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overall wellbeing. The issues or concern in which I will include are teen pregnancy and obesity in teenagers. Justification: * My reason for choosing Youth as my topic is because I believe in researching what the community is for and against in certain issues that can cause an impact on and overall wellbeing. I chose Teen Pregnancy as one of two issues as it is focused on the age group between 15 and 24. Teen pregnancy has been an issue since the 1900’s and I am interested to see the statistics
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SAT’s to picking a college‚ life can seem overwhelming. One of the most important things to them‚ however‚ may possibly relationships and sexual ones at that. The purpose of our survey was to find out just how much teenagers really know about teen pregnancy and awareness. The questions we asked we really geared towards gauging their knowledge on the topic to see how much education they had received in the past. Another purpose‚ I feel‚ was to find out what changes could be made in sex education to
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other gender. As a result‚ teenagers have sex activities for a try. One of the consequences they have to bear is pregnancy due to a lack of birth control methods. Teenage sex has become a serious problem‚ even though sex actually has consequences‚ both emotionally and physically. Unfortunately‚ most teenagers often do not think about sex seriously. As a matter of fact‚ teen pregnancy has recently increased in the United States because of early puberty‚ lack of the parents ’ care‚ and impact of drugs
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their health to be concerned about. There were no laws in place to help protect them from discrimination. In those days‚ pregnancy was considered a disability. Many women were simply fired the moment their employer found out about their condition. In some cases‚ women were forced to resign as soon as their baby belly began to show‚ or at the end of the first trimester of pregnancy. These occurrences were especially common in physically demanding positions. Employers were not required to provide special
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