Pressley‚ Aubrey HED 213 Professor Scott 2/13/13 Health Issues: Teen Pregnancy in Columbia‚ South Carolina Growing up in Northeast Columbia I have endured many matters in which helped me grow into the young adult I am today. Where I’m from‚ high school is the beginning of change for many of the local teens in my hometown. Some change so drastically that if you were to compare their upbringings to their high school days you would never think they were the same individual. Some change for
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An Annotated Bibliography: Teen Pregnancy Marcia Dixon April 8‚ 2013 HCS 465 Kerrie Kelly In years past teen pregnancy created problems in several countries. However in the United States among teenagers‚ teen pregnancy rose‚ but there was no help from programs like the National Geographic’s channel‚ and Teen Mom that aired on MTV. Individuals saw a version of what might have been with cameras rolling‚ however if the cameras are not rolling then life takes on a different meaning. When someone
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in the context of your society or community. This paper is looking at teenage pregnancy and the impact on society‚ and will provide a sociological imagination analysis of the individual and social impact. Being an un-married and pregnant teenager can be an incredibly challenging and scary experience especially if that child does not have a support structure. The national Campaign to prevent teen and planned pregnancy (NCPTP) reports that 3 out of every 10 children under the age of 20 become pregnant
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teenage pregnancy revolves around what factors are identified as the causative influences. Some researchers regard prevention programs‚ regardless of how well thought out and implemented‚ as doomed‚ because the issue of teenage pregnancy involves the social whole. Males (1993)‚ for example‚ thinks that current programs of all sorts‚ will not succeed because of a discrepancy between reality and strategies for prevention. In a similar vein‚ Davis (1989)‚ argues that since teenage pregnancy is covered
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Teen Pregnancy and Sex Education The consensus is that sex education is necessary for pre-teen and teenagers to receive information about their bodies‚ reduce the risk of pregnancy‚ and disease (Combellick & Brindis‚ 2011). Many states have mandates on the curriculum of sex education and what grades to present the information to the students (Jacobson‚ 2011). On average‚ students receive sex education in 6th or 7th grade and 9th or 10th grade (Bigos‚ 2012). The problem is in
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DRAFT August‚ 2003 The Sexually Mature Teen as Whole Person: New Directions in Prevention and Intervention for Teen Pregnancy and Parenthood Joseph P. Allen University of Virginia Victoria Seitz Nancy H. Apfel Yale University To appear in D. Phillips‚ J. L. Aber & S. M. Jones (Eds.)‚ Child Development and Social Policy: Knowledge for Action. Washington‚ D.C.: American Psychological Association. More than three decades ago‚ Edward Zigler‚ to whom this chapter is
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While the United States having the highest teen pregnancy rate in the industrialized world‚ new phenomenon’s controlling debates in today’s society consistently reflects upon teen pregnancy and the average age of teen mothers declining drastically. Controversies in today’s media‚ political debates‚ and views on birth control depict both ends of an abstruse teen pregnancy spectrum‚ as people choose to glamorize such motherhood or castigate it. In society‚ many people believe success can come easy
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The only Micro Theory ‘Labeling’‚ is an interactionist perspective‚ which focuses on the interactions of the individual‚ compared to the Macro Theories of conflict. Looking at the way a person’s self identity and behaviour can be influenced by the terms used to classify or describe them. Concepts of the self fulfilling prophecy‚ whereby a person can be influenced into becoming what they have been labeled‚ and stereotyping by negatively labeling minority groups. Judging deviant behaviour as deviation
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• Applying a Structural-functionalist perspective can help understand how the issue is affecting society. A way that teen pregnancy in low socioeconomic areas helped shape society is the production of more jobs in certain industries; e.g. planned parenthood • Another way this theory can be applied shows the increase of taxes Australians pay. According to the NCPTP “teen childbearing costs taxpayers at least 9 billion each year” [1] • Studies also show that 52% of mothers on welfare had their first
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Effective approaches to prevent teen pregnancy After reading numerous articles and abstracts in regards to the ever so intriguing topic of teen pregnancy‚ I ’ve come to a conclusion which is a little different than I had expected. Before reading any of the literature on teen pregnancy‚ I was under the assumption that the sex education classes provided in school were an extremely effective weapon against unwanted teenage pregnancies. Of the literature references that I ’ve used and those of which
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