Enhancing school sex education programs to decrease adolescent pregnancy. This paper is addressing the media’s rise teen pregnancy and it’s accidental glamorization of the situation. The average American teenager is easily influenced by what they see in the media‚ and as a result a trend in teen pregnancy has risen. Schools need to enhance their sex education programs to help prevent teen pregnancy. Teen Mom‚ 16 and Pregnant‚ and Secret Life of the American Teenager are all shows that are
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IV School Year 2011-2012 A B S T R A C T OBJECTIVE To assess the factors associated with adolescent pregnancies among secondary students at Tanga municipality. METHODOLOGY A cross sectional descriptive analytical study which targeted all girls in secondary schools at Tanga municipality‚ RESULTS Low socioeconomic status was found to be an important cause for adolescent pregnancies as 57.1% of respondents suggested. Other factors responsible were luxury and deprivation of education to
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Teenage pregnancy could be defined as a girl attaining motherhood before she reaches the legal age of adulthood. Rates of teenage pregnancy in Jamaica are among the highest in the Caribbean‚ with females between the ages of fifteen to nineteen years of age being responsible for one hundred and eight births per thousand women. Females between the ages of ten and nineteen account for twenty-five percent of births in Jamaica‚ and twenty-two percent of births between fifteen to nineteen year olds are
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Macleod‚ C.I.‚ & Tracey‚ T. (2010). A decade later: follow-up review of South African research on the consequences of and contributory factors in teen-aged pregnancy. South African Journal of Psychology‚ 40(1)‚ pp. 18-31. A decade later: follow-up review of South African research on the consequences of and contributory factors in teen-aged pregnancy Catriona Ida Macleod* and Tiffany Tracey *Corresponding author Psychology Department Rhodes University P O Box 94 Grahamstown 6140 Tel: (046)6038500
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Singapore Statistics from the Malaysia Welfare Department for this year‚ from January to April 2010‚ reported that 111 unmarried young girls were pregnant. The figure‚ however‚ is just the tip of the iceberg as many cases go unreported and pregnancies terminated. It also reported in New Straits Times on 23rd July 2010‚ the body of a baby girl found in a bag at a bus stop near the Sultan Ismail Hospital‚ Johor Bahru in the morning. Also there a baby found buried. New Straits Times on 18th July
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Teenage Pregnancies: Children Having Children Stephanie Newman ENG 106 Professor Jan Babcock In 2011‚ a total of 329‚797 babies were born to women aged 15-19 years‚ for a live birth rate of 31.3 per 1‚000 women in this age group (Center for Disease and Control Prevention). Flashing red and blue lights and noise from the ambulance have people from the neighborhood outside looking to see what happen. They see a paramedic pushing a petite woman‚ on the gurney‚ towards
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States‚ is teenage pregnancy. Let’s face it‚ there is nothing we can do to eliminate this huge problem amongst us. However‚ there are many ways we can reduce the statistics of teenage pregnancy. One great solution we‚ as a country‚ can promote‚ is to allow condoms to be issued within high schools. Although there are many concerns and questions to allow this act‚ there are many beneficial facts that support condoms issued in high schools to be effective‚ to reduce the number of pregnancies. Questions
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Children Having Children: Teenage Pregnancy Introduction In todays modern society‚ there is a very liberalized attitude about sex. There is more widespread acceptance of premarital sex. However‚ since adolescents are becoming sexually active at an early age‚ one of the major concerns is pregnancy. “Teens exposed to highly sexual television content were twice as likely to experience a pregnancy compared with lower level or no exposure.” (Papalia‚ Feldman & Martorell‚ 2012
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Focal length of convex length Aim: to investigate how to measure the focal length of a convex lens‚ by using the lens equation: 1/f=1/u+1/v * Independent variables: * Screen * lens * Dependent variables: * distance between the source of light and the lens “V” which is “X” value * distance between lens and the screen “ Y value” * Controlled variables: * ruler * screen size * source of light * Hypothesis: When the lens is displaced further away from the
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PROJECT IN RESEARCH II NATIONAL DANCE OF VIETNAM Submitted by: Pamela Vel B. Marpa Section: II-Discipline Submitted to: Michael Vincent R. Galestre July 31‚ 2012 Mua Sap (Bamboo Dance) Mua Sap (Bamboo Dance) originally from the Highland region of Vietnam‚ this popular dance was performed to celebrate special event‚ such as New Year’s Day. A series of bamboo sticks are set up in a line‚ with the people holding them in place on either side. Dancers move in and out of
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