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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The effects of teenage pregnancy to youngsters There are few cases regarding teenage pregnancy‚ that have become a trend and make restless in our community nowadays. Teenagers can be defined as an adolescent from the range of age between 13 to 19. However‚ pregnancy is said to be the period from conception to birth. Therefore‚ teenage pregnancy is defined as a teenage girl‚ usually within the ages of 13 to 19‚ becoming pregnant. According to the Alan Guttmacher Institute(AGI) (2010)‚ which
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Causes and Effect of Teenage Pregnancy “Despite the fact that the teen birth rate is slowly falling‚ there are still an estimated one million teen pregnancies in the United States alone’ (Sams‚ Urquhart). A big issue in the United States is the percentages of teenage pregnancy rates. Being a teen is hard as it is‚ but having to raise a baby on top of that causes a bundle of responsibilities. Many factors lead up to this problem from the precautions not put in place. The outcome has not only the
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How to Prevent Teenage Pregnancy Each year the United States is acknowledged for having the highest number of pregnant teens in the industrialized world. We have clueless teenage females of every race having children while they are in high school. Sex is on the minds of so many teenagers that they forget that they are not yet at a stage of having children. Since it is difficult for adolescent girl to resist the temptation of having sex; a while abstinence is the best form of prevention‚ birth
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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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Teenage Pregnancy: Society’s Role Teenage pregnancy is best defined as a young lady under the age of twenty becoming pregnant. Teenage pregnancy‚ in the past‚ was not so much of a controversial issue as it is today‚ mainly because there were very few‚ if any‚ ways of preventing it. Whereas‚ in modern-day’s society‚ teen pregnancy has become a worldwide issue due to the many methods that can be taken to prevent it-birth control‚ sexual education courses‚ remaining abstinent‚ and many more. Teenage
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follow from having unprotected sex‚ one of the consequences is getting pregnant. Teenage pregnancy is an overwhelming problem in the United States. Over one million American teenagers become pregnant each year this means that 1 in 10 girls will become pregnant annually. Also‚ every 26 seconds a teenage girl becomes pregnant and every 56 seconds a child of a teenage mother is born. More than 600‚000 of these teenage girls will give birth and only ninety percent of these girls will elect to keep their
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Jerikho Dayot Mrs. Larsen AP Language Period 4 27 April 2015 A Modest Proposal for the Prevention of Teenage Pregnancy and the Usage of Babies Born to Teen Parents in Unusual Cases Having to see poor little innocent children suffer from poverty‚ low income‚ and inexperienced‚ immature caregivers is an increasing situation occurring in today’s society. Many teenagers today are becoming parents and the majorities of them are not emotionally or physically ready to have the full responsibilities. According
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PREGNANT AT 15 Being a parent can be very tough‚ as a parent has to juggle the responsibilities of working‚ having a social life‚ coping financially and taking care of a baby all at a same time. Teenage parents struggle even more‚ as they face difficulties with coping financially‚ finding someone to take care of the baby when they are at work or at school‚ having little to no sleep‚ while worrying about finishing their education. Kate Atkins-Portman talks to journalist Chloe Chow about her life as
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imagine); they share a cultural universe to which 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
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