DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES Save $$$s onottled water!!!- Unplanned Teenage Pregnancy and the Support Needs of Young Mothers Part B: Review of literature Prepared by Krystyna Slowinski Research‚ Analysis and Information Team November 2001 Contents Executive Summary ………………………………………………………….. 1 1.. Introduction …………………………………………………………….… 5 1.1 Background ………………………………………………………………. 5 1.2 Methodology …………………………………………..…..……..….…. 6 1.3 Language and Terminology ……………………..…..…….…….. 6 2. Adolescent
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Teenage pregnancy is affecting the graduation rate in high schools. All over the nation the dropout rate of students is increasing‚ of which teen pregnancy is often a factor. “Approximately 1‚000 high school students will drop out with each hour that passes in a school day in America. This means that 30 percent of the class of 2007‚ or 1.2 million students‚ were estimated to have dropped out last year” (National Women’s Law Center‚ 2007). Many factors combine to affect a pregnant or parenting teen’s
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Drinking during pregnancy could put the baby at risk in the womb‚ as well as having lifetime affects growing up. Not only that‚ but it can affect the mother too. Even though fifty percent of the U.S. pregnancies are unplanned‚ it does not give a mother to keep drinking while she is with child. Because alcohol can affect the baby’s physical and mental health in and out of the womb‚ women must not drink during pregnancy. The baby’s health in the womb is very crucial. Drinking during pregnancy could put
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Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA)‚ a 1978 amendment to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964‚ prohibits workplace discrimination on the basis of pregnancy. The impetus for the act was a 1976 Supreme Court decision‚ General Electric v. Gilbert‚ in which the Court held that denial of benefits for pregnancy-related disability was not discrimination based on sex (Gelb‚1996). This holding echoed past management decisions by which married women faced job discrimination and pregnant women were routinely
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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. A study
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Teratogen Affects on Pregnancy Oct 9‚ 2010 Textbook References: Chapter 2 Teratogens: Drugs- smoking p 50 Part II Chapter 2 Teratogens: Drugs- behavioral problem w/smoking p 51 Part II Chapter 2 Teratogens: Drugs- Child Behavioral Problems w/drinking p.52 Part II Chapter 2 Teratogens: Drugs- FAS p 51 Part II There are many potential
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Does Access To Condoms Help Prevent Teen Pregnancy? Betsy Harkless Ivy Tech English 093 Abstract for “Does Access to Condoms Help Prevent Teen Pregnancy?” My purpose for choosing this topic for my essay is purely for the fact that I know 20 girls right of the top of my head that are my age that are either pregnant or already have baby. So this topic kind of hits home for me. In Bartholomew Country alone‚ the teen birth rate for every 1‚000 girls age 15-17 is 20.3%. That means that for out
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child‚ society still felt that was a rather low age to withhold a pregnancy. Upon my reading of Cathy Gulli’s article on teenage pregnancy‚ she opens reader’s eyes to a bigger picture upon youth sex‚ or what I call “sex for dummies.” In “Suddenly Teen Pregnancy is Cool?” she stresses her opinion that modern things in society such as celebrities‚ movies‚ home life and many other things are issues that ignite the fuel of teen pregnancy. She also put emphasis on the generation‚ age‚ as well as countries
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Introduction Teenage pregnancies have become a topic of discussion within most households of today’s society. Recent television shows such as Teen Mom and The Secret Life of an American Teenager has introduced a topic in a major way. Within the past twenty years‚ the amount of teenage pregnancy has increased by 10 percent (Brown). According to the Medical dictionary teen pregnancy is defined as “Pregnancy by a female‚ age 13 to 19‚ which is understood to occur in a girl who hasn’t completed her
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Pregnancy can be a scary thing‚ especially when unintended. Throughout history‚ thousands of parents have been shocked from their daughters coming home pregnant one day. Teen pregnancy is a life-changing situation and the lives of many teenage women have been ruptured by teen pregnancy. As a result of their pregnancies‚ their lives are put on hold all because of another responsibility interrupting their own lives. When so many young females are giving birth due to an accidental pregnancy‚ the country
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