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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Abortion a problem for teenage girls The purpose of this essay is to bring awareness to the medical procedure of abortion‚ which is a very dangerous procedure that needs to be solved. The target audience is those teenage girls that are deciding to abort using irrelevant procedures. This problem is an increasing trend that is affecting younger and younger girls as time passes due to poor sex education involvement in schools‚ and family discussions. Sometimes girls have rational reasons of why they
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Teenage Abortion Teen pregnancy in today’s society has become a huge issue in this era. Most of these teenager’s are still in high school and have no way of having anyone to help them. Most are eventually going to be single parents raising a child or aborting the child. "In 1999 over 148‚000 teenage pregnancies ended in abortion" (advocatesforyouth.org). This leads teenage mother’s to parent their child in single-parent homes or have illegal abortions. Even though some of these teens have no knowledge
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Farber‚ N. B. (1989). The Significance of Aspirations among Unmarried Adolescent Mothers Hotz‚ V.‚ McElroy‚ S.‚ &‚ S. G. (2005). Teenage Childbearing and Its Life Cycle Consequences: Exploiting a Natural Experiment Kirkman‚ M.‚ Harrison‚ L.‚ Hillier‚ L.‚ & Pyett‚ P. (2001). ’I know I ’m doing a good job ’: canonical and autobiographical narratives of teenage mothers
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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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choicepregnancy.org‚ 7 out of 10 teenages have had sex by the age of 19 years. Approximately 1 million teenagers in America become pregnant each year.
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Teen pregnancy is significantly high in numbers in America; one must know teenage girls backgrounds to understand their differences and disparities. To find a prevention method‚ one must acknowledge what these girls encounter‚ if they have access to clinics and insurance‚ and does their environment play a role teen pregnancy. In regard to modern society‚ women of color and Hispanic teens encounter more disparities than white teens. White American teens have more financial support as well as physical
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Curiosity; the desire to know or learn something‚ create; to bring into existence‚ these are the definitions of the terms curiosity and create. Curiosity has revealed itself in many ways; Benjamin Franklin with the Kite to prove lightning consisted of electricity. When Columbus discovering the North American continent. Most of the discoveries made were because of the curiosity of man. With that curiosity we tend to develop creation‚ like the creation of light‚ automobiles‚ and most of the medicines
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Being a parent is one of the biggest joys that a person can have‚ but as your child develops and matures so do the challenges you face as a parent. The adolescent years for teenagers are filled with numerous challenges‚ the biggest possibly being their sexual development/education and the effect it will play in their lives. A teen usually begins learning about sexuality at home where their parents will have a number of opportunities to discuss their sexual development and a number of other issues
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to prevention. Teenage pregnancy is one of the biggest social issues that society faces today. We have decided to do a research about the level of awareness of the students about pregnancy for various reasons‚ for one‚ Nowadays‚ the percent of early pregnancies climbs up in an alarmingly high rate. It had made us curious of why the rates are going up‚ another reason is that there are people we are related to‚ friends with‚ classmates and neighbors that are going through teenage pregnancy. Our
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