Xxxxx Xxxxxxx Mr. Xxxxxxx English 1301 October 3‚ 2013 Teen Pregnancy Seventeen-year-old Amber is from Santa Ana‚ California. The life-changing situation she describes is her unplanned pregnancy. On November 2011‚ she gave birth to a baby boy. As a result‚ she dropped out of high school and got a job to take care after her infant son. She now faces many challenges. Teen pregnancy rate is high. “United States rates are twice as high as in England and Wales or Canada‚ and eight times as high
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Teen crimes are in an uprising all across the city of Memphis and Shelby County area. Teen crime ranges from stealing from a corner store to killing. Lack of parental involvement‚ gangs‚ and the city contribute to teen crimes. Lack of parental involvement is one of the main contributions to teen crimes. Parents are not involved with their children on a daily basis. Parents are not giving their teens responsibilities and allowing them to run freely. The parents do not begin disciplining their children
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Teen pregnancy is on the rise after so many decades of its declination. This in some part may be related to teens not knowing enough information to protect their selves before they have sex‚ peer pressure‚ and not knowing how to properly prevent a pregnancy from happening to them. Teen pregnancy is an issue that seems to be gaining more popularity in the past few years. This is a problem because how is someone who is only a teenager‚ supposed to be ready to be a parent? Most teen moms do not feel
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five per cent of single women lived with a man before getting married. By the 1990s‚ about 70 per cent did so. Some people think that living together will lead automatically to marriage‚ but that often is not the case. Much cohabitation breaks up. For many other couples‚ cohabitation is viewed as an alternative to marriage rather than a preparation for it. However‚ this
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Untreated depression and other mental disorders are a key component to teen suicides. Depression‚ especially‚ can be triggered by several events in a teenager’s life such as problems at home‚ breaking up with a boyfriend or girlfriend‚ and dealing with sexual identity (Will). Maureen Underwood‚ a social worker who has written suicide prevention school curricula and who works with the Society for the Prevention of Teen Suicide‚ states these “triggering events could push someone off the edge” (Harpaz)
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Teen Pregnancy Speech Teen pregnancy rates sky rocket every year. 560‚000 teenage girls give birth each year. One sixth of all United States births are to teenage girls. Teen pregnancy rates are soaring and many teenage girls are impacted negatively because they are unable to fulfill the many responsibilities such as education and financial needs. Something needs to be done to decrease the teen pregnancy rates. None of you will argue that teen pregnancy rates aren’t high. And all agree something
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Teen Rebellion Teen rebellion is a problem that’s been around ever since teenagers have. Almost every teen goes through some sort of rebellious stage in or after the precious years of puberty. It’s a problem that’s caused by a number of attributes‚ the two main being teenage hormones and attitude. It’s a superiority syndrome that teens get to let the world "adults" know that their views and opinions are not to be reckoned with. And with such a stubborn mindset that teen rebellion comes with
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is estimated that over half of all teens suffering from depression will attempt suicide at least once‚ and of those teens‚ roughly seven percent will succeed on the first try. Teenagers are especially vulnerable to the threat of suicide‚ because in addition to increased stress from school‚ work and peers‚ teens are also dealing with hormonal fluctuations that can complicate even the most normal situations. Because of these social and personal changes‚ teens are also at higher risk for depression
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many social contexts such as social interaction‚ social institutions and organization‚ social change and development (Abraham). Because of the broad spectrum of social circumstances that are studied‚ unemployment is an issue in which sociologists thrive. Conflict in the areas of age‚ race‚ gender‚ and disability is common among the employed as well as the unemployed. From a sociological perspective‚ unemployment can be studied through both the Functionalist Theory and Conflict Theory. It also touches
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In C. Wright Mills’ book‚ The Sociological Imagination‚ he creates a new academic discourse to discuss how society and the individual are intimately connected. The individual and the society in which the individual exists in are interdependent. For a layman’s example‚ a college student is an individual but an individual within a society of higher education‚ there is not one without the other. His sociological theory is referred to as the sociological imagination that allows us as individuals and
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