Teen Pregnancy Teenage Pregnancy is one of the biggest problems that America has to date. Currently‚ the United States has one of the highest teen pregnancy rates in the western industrialized world. Four in every ten American girls will get pregnant at least once before they turn twenty. Approximately seven hundred fifty thousand American teenage girls get pregnant every year resulting in about four hundred twenty thousand teen births (The National Campaign). In today’s society teenage
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Teen pregnancy has been a problem in the United States for years. Although rates have dropped since the 1990’s‚ teen pregnancy rates in the United States are still higher than other western societies (Arai‚ 2009). Teenage pregnancy is accompanied with many negative consequences such as shortened educational experience‚ diminished employment‚ larger family size‚ increased risk of single- parent and poverty (Turner‚ 1990). Teen mothers struggle on a daily basis. In order to help them through their
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Unit 2 Project: Teen Pregnancy Joan Kjer Kaplan University CM220-11 Professor Nelson August 15‚ 2011 The “Big Idea” that I am going to write about is “teenage pregnancy.” The working thesis statement that I have come up with is‚ “Education is one of the best ways to prevent teenage pregnancy‚ educating teenagers could help the teenagers understand all the consequences of becoming a teenage parent‚ and all the advantages that they can have if they just would protect themselves from becoming
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control methods are the female and male condoms‚ and the birth control pill. Even though both of these help protect against pregnancy and the female and the male condoms help protect against HIV and sexually transmitted diseases (STD). This raises the question‚ should teenagers be allowed to receive birth control methods without their parents’ permission. The answer is teenage girls should not be allowed to receive birth control without parent consent. There are many reasons why birth control methods
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mainly the high teen pregnancy rate‚ the high STD/STI rate and also the ineffectiveness of abstinence. The first major factor faced by high school students is teenage pregnancy. According to (Guttmacher Institute‚ 2010)‚ teenagers (aged 15–19) who do not use a contraceptive during sex are twice as likely to become teen mothers; this has become the newest trend among teenage girls. It has also been noticed among health authorities that there is a significant rise in teenage pregnancies‚ according to (Watson
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levels and home to educate youth on the important facts about sex such as pregnancies‚ sexually transmitted diseases‚ contraceptives‚ peer pressures of having sex‚ and various other issues. Even though the teen pregnancy rate has declined over the past few decades‚ the fact of the matter is that the United States has the highest teen pregnancy rate of the Western industrialized world (Guttmacher). It is true that the teen pregnancy and birth rate was much higher prior to 1980 (and especially in the 1950s
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percent of all births in the United States were teenage girls from the ages fifteen to nineteen. Almost one million teenagers become pregnant each year and about 485‚00 give birth. In many situations the answer to keeping a relationship going is to have a good sex life. Most teen relationships are based on sex. This is one of the main reasons why teenage birth rates are so high. Each side has their own answer to the question‚ what causes teen pregnancy‚ and how can we prevent it? There are various
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Government? This survey reads as if it comes from the 1950s… in the American Midwest. Many parts of America – notably Texas‚ but many others – are the heartland of abstinence-centred sex education. These places also have the highest rates of teenage pregnancy in the developed world. Teens who receive factual sex education are significantly less yesterday’s front-page story‚ with an emphasis on marriage. The virtues of abstinence before marriage should be taught alongside facts about
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different opinions‚ however it is my belief that condom distribution in high schools allows children to open up and ask questions regarding sex‚ it accounts for a tremendous decrease in teen pregnancies‚ abortions and diseases‚ as well as a decrease in the amount of money spent on supporting unwanted teen pregnancies and abortions. I remember my sexual behavior as a teen. In my parents eyes it was “she is abstinent”‚ however my stance was very different. I‚ like many other adolescents had to deal only
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teen pregnancy. The authors Thomas and Dimitrov wrote the “Effects of a Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program on Teens’ Attitudes Toward Sexuality: A Latent Trait Modeling Approach” article will be used to determine the methods of defining the problem‚ the purpose of the study‚ research questions‚ hypothesis‚ study variables‚ conceptual model‚ the review of related literature and the study design of the selected article. Definition of Problem The problem addressed within the article is teenage pregnancy
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