In recent years‚ 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
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CHAPTER I THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND INTRODUCTION Computer nowadays is a basic need for businesses or companies. It helps a lot in such a way that it makes work more progressive and productive. It is an important thing that a company or small business should have because it helps a lot in many ways such as organizing‚ storing and manipulating data. Having computer programs may help a company grow bigger and be competitive in the flow of the business world. It helps a lot because
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CHAPTER 1 THE PROBLEM AND ITS SCOPE INTRODUCTION RATIONALE Information System (IS) refers to a system of people‚ data records and activities that process the data and information in an organization as well as the organization’s manual and automated processes. In a narrow sense‚ the term information system (or computer-based information system) refers to the specific application software that is used to store data records in a computer system and automate some of the information-processing
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Teenage pregnancy 1) Gender: Male Female 2) Age Range 13-16 17-21 22-40 41 Above 3) To what ethnic group do you belong to? East Indian Mix African Amerindians Chinese Portuguese European 4) To what religion do you belong to? Christianity
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CHAPTER I PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND Introduction Security from crimes will always be the concern of the people regardless of their age‚ gender and even their social status because it’s one of our basic needs as stated by Abraham Maslow‚ an American psychologist. In today’s modern age‚ we can’t be so sure to our safety that’s why as the number of records of violation such as theft-related crimes continuously increasing‚ especially in the vehicles like cars - the usual target of thieves because
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Chapter 1 THE PROBLEM 1.1. Introduction Heavy metals such as lead‚ zinc‚ copper‚ can often be found in industrial wastewater and their discharge to the environment poses a serious threat due to their acute toxicity to aquatic and terrestrial life which includes humans. As a result of increasing industrialization more heavy metals are continually released to the environment and this has prompted environmental engineers and scientists to think of better methods by which heavy
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Cause of Teenage pregnancy in Thailand Nowadays‚ the problem of teenage pregnancy in Thailand doesn’t affect only teenage mothers’ lives‚ but also many aspects of Thai society‚ such as family‚ occupation‚ the economy‚ etc. Moreover‚ it is expected that in the future‚ the problem will increase and become bigger and harder to solve. According to the Bureau of Reproductive Health at the Public Health Ministry‚ Thai teenager births have increased 43 percent during the last 10 years and Thailand’s teenage
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PREGNANCY AMONG TEENAGE GIRLS More than one million girls become pregnant every year in the U.S.‚ a rate of teen pregnancy greater than those of other industrialized nations. There is as much research supporting the close relationship between self-esteem and teenage pregnancy as any other problem behavior. Hayes and Fors (1990) report that lower self-esteem is often an antecedent to the engagement in premarital sexual relationships and is more likely to be responsible for teen pregnancies
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Does “16 and Pregnant” Encourage or Discourage Teenage Pregnancy? Have you ever thought about how kids are being affected by tv shows like “16 and Pregnant?” 16 and pregnant discourages teen pregnancy‚ the rates of teen moms have gone down‚ the tv shows reality‚ people just make titles and assume stuff when they are wrong. First of all‚ by showing what will happen if teens are unsafe and showing their mistakes will help teens not to make those mistakes. Showing how difficult it can be to be a
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now. I felt this because turning 13 is now considered to be the beginning of your teenage era‚ a time filled with hidden dangers‚ mysteries and new opportunities. Personally the last thing I had in mind when I reached the ‘age of prodigy’ was becoming a parent ! Yet this was certainly wasn’t the case for teenagers of the 1950’s. Statistics provided in the article showed me‚ the biggest year in U.S history for teenage birth was 1957. Nancy Gibbs then goes onto justify why this occurred and it was not
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