I. HOW DOES THE STUDENT KNOW THE INTERVIEWEE? For privacy purposes‚ I will refer to the interviewee as Jane Doe. I met Jane in middle school and we attended high school together as well. We spent most of our teenage years together‚ including spending the night at one another’s house‚ attending each other’s birthday parties‚ and eating lunch together every day at school. However‚ once we entered high school we started to get into a bit more trouble‚ for things such as sneaking out of the house or
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Topic: Teenage Smoking Title: There are many teenage smokers in the Philippines and there are several causes and effects to this issue. Introduction I. Peer Pressure‚ Curiosity‚ Habit and Depression are the causes of teenagers that has been smoking cigarette. Based on my experience‚ Peer Pressure is one of the influencial factors to teenage smokers. It occurs when a non-smoker joins a group of teenage smokers. When teenagers have been influenced most likely he or she will start smoking. The behavoir
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Anorexia in Teenage Girls Adolescence is the most crucial stage of development in which one is mostly influenced by what is seen in society‚ culture‚ and fashion. These influences can lead to eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa. Anorexia Nervosa is a psychological disorder characterized by a fear of weight gain‚ body image issues and maintenance of low body weight (American Psychiatric Association‚1994). On average‚ teenage girls under the ages of twelve to seventeen years old suffer from anorexia
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Yah-yah was raped by her mother’s “friend”. As a result‚ she has an unwanted pregnancy. She is angry with her mother because she didn’t do anything to protect her. People in society are misjudging her. Yah-yah is frustrated and on the verge of suicide. Teenage pregnancy has been a phenomenon since biblical ages. Dr. Michelle Golland stated‚ The United States has the highest teen pregnancy rate in the industrialized world. There are 750‚000 teen pregnancies annually. The Caribbean has not escaped this plague
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Teenage pregnancies have suddenly become an epidemic in our generation. This resulted to teenage mothers dropping out of school and ending up on welfare‚ barely able to support their child. In worst cases‚ teenagers who give birth die through the ordeal‚ as their bodies are not prepared to handle childbirth. So why do teenage girls get pregnant? There are a number of causes to why this is so. Firstly‚ teenagers themselves are responsible for the increase of teen pregnancies. The lack of knowledge
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LEGAZPI CITY‚ Albay - Teenage pregnancies in the Philippines surged by 70 percent over one decade‚ a ranking official of the United Nation Population Fund Agency (UNFPA) said on Monday. Ugochi Daniels‚ UNFPA country representative‚ said the rising number of teenage pregnancies in the country is an area of concern that the agency is giving serious attention to‚ exposing as it does adolescent girls (10 to 19 years old) to high risk. Daniels said a strong advocacy campaign is needed to educate
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Conclusion Teen pregnancy is a pregnancy in female human-beings who are below the age of twenty years and being a teen parent it isn’t as great as it sounds. Teen pregnancy should be highly discouraged has it has effect on the teenage mother and the baby born. The teen mother may face complications such as premature labor‚ medical complication during the pregnancy period‚ at child birth or after child birth and are likely to drop out of school. One cause for an early pregnancy for a teenager
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to write about the pressures faced by teenage girls from the media to be attractive to the opposite sex‚ the pressures from boys in an intimate relationship‚ and the pressure from society to behave and act in a certain way towards boys to fit in and impress them. I am hoping to find imformation on this topic so that i can fully understand it‚ and work out ways to overcome the pressures so that i am prepared if i ever find myself in the situation. Teenage girls are pressured to do things in intimate
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In today’s society‚ teenage love is looked upon as a subject for many different opinions. Most adults assume that teenagers are immature to understand love. As a teenager‚ I believe that everyone in this world is capable to love no matter how old they are. Love for family and friends are no different from the love we have towards another individual. However relationships between two teenagers are often negatively judged by others. I strongly agree that humanity was made to love at no particular age
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Causes of Teenage Suicide The American Psychological Association states that‚ “Teen suicide is a growing health concern. It is the 3rd-leading cause of death for young people ages 15 to 24” (Teen Suicide is Preventable). As youth suicides are becoming more publicized‚ society is gradually becoming more aware of this global concern. Although most people do not understand why teenagers commit suicide‚ the three social sciences‚ anthropology‚ sociology‚ and psychology‚ provide insights that go beyond
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