Teenage pregnancy is a major issue in the United States. Some people say that this is society’s fault. Although having sex and getting pregnant is due to personal choices and decisions‚ there are a few things society could do to prevent it. Excessive teenage pregnancy could be controlled with appropriate media‚ more readily available birth control‚ and people to set good examples for young women. Just flipping through the channels on a Saturday afternoon you can see all sorts of inappropriate media
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method of contraception” (CDC‚ 2010a). It is important to have preventative and educational programs available to our youth as they enter the age of risk of unintended pregnancies. SCHOOL-BASED PREGNANCY PREVENTION PROGRAMS Introduction The United States continues to experience the highest teenage pregnancy rate among developed countries; the phenomenon remains a complex occurrence for families‚ educators‚ health care professionals and the United States government (Hardy &
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Teenage Pregnancy: Society’s Newest Trend After being raised with three sisters‚ I’ve come to notice that your typical teenage girl spends the majority of her time thinking about clothes‚ school‚ and boys. While I could be wrong about the clothes and school part‚ the numbers give me a leg to stand on when it comes to boys‚ 76.4 girls per 1‚000 females who are pregnant are spending all of their time worrying about bringing a child into the world due to teen pregnancy (Henshaw‚ 2004). Within the
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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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Letter to the editor on teen pregnancy DeVry University 05/10/2014 I’m writing in response to Nicole Etolin’s article‚ “The Effects of Teenage Pregnancy: Examining the Results of 12 Studies.” This brief article outlines the risks associated with teen pregnancy. Speaking as someone who has been through teen pregnancy‚ I feel that the risks Etolin points out paint a picture that is different from what I experienced. Does getting pregnant at a young age cause teen mothers to drop
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Teenage pregnancy is a serious issue in our society today where people become pregnant because they are not informed. The United States had the greatest amount of pregnancies. Teenage pregnancy affects not only females but males as well; it causes serious health and education problems. “Nearly 4 out of 10 girls become pregnant at least once before the age of 20.” () Most teens get pregnant because they want to know what it feels like to raise a child or because they see others with children and
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pregnant. They were both disappointed but my mum hugged me for a long time and my dad kept telling me that I should’ve been careful. Afterwards‚ we talked about the situation and decided that I would keep the baby. The next day I told Cameron about my pregnancy and he didn’t take the news too well and left without saying anything. I was extremely upset‚ but I didn’t let it get to me‚ as I had my sister and my parents to help me through this situation. Few days after I told Cameron‚ I went out with my two
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Single Motherhood and Teen Pregnancy In researching material on single mothers and teen mothers‚ the factual problems with single mother households‚ and the stereotypical problems‚ I found a few interesting issues in the resources I collected which are worth mention. The first is the general statistics of sexual activity and early pregnancy. The second deals with the conflicting views of the effects of single mother families on the children. The third deals with the financial issues of prevalent
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Glamorizes Teen Pregnancy Media‚ specifically television has taken the issue of teen pregnancy to a whole other level. The shows 16 and Pregnant‚ Teen Mom‚ and The Secret Life of the American Teenager document the lives of young teenage girls facing the issue of being a pregnant teenager. Originally created to show the controversial subject of teen pregnancy‚ all of these shows soon began to change. As the seasons continued in all three of these shows‚ the controversial subject of teen pregnancy soon became
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Self-Awareness in Teen Pregnancy and Vulnerable Populations. Robert Stoll University of Phoenix Health Assessment and Promotion for Vulnerable Population NUR/440 Shamar Walker August 31‚ 2012 Self-Awareness in Teen Pregnancy and Vulnerable Populations. Vulnerable populations are groups that are not well integrated into the health care system because of ethnic‚ cultural‚ economic‚ geographic‚ or health characteristics ("Vulnerable populations‚" 2010‚ para. 1). Teen pregnancy falls into this category
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