Nearly 750,000 teenagers get pregnant in a year. In The Pregnancy Project by Gaby Rodriguez, is a 17 year old girl who decides for her senior project she is going to fake a pregnancy. While only telling a total of 5 people from her school and family. “I’m not surprised. Does she know that she just ruined her life?” (Rodriguez 141); Gaby wanted to hear all of the gossip that would be said about her. I believe this book was written for a good reason, to fight stereotypes and gossip gets around. While reading this small portion of Gaby’s life, I can see that it had made a big impact on her and many other lives. After reading how this book touched the lives of so many; I can say I truly enjoyed reading this book.…
The visual appeared in a New York Times article on October 9th, 2009. The target audience for the source are persons who are interested in keeping up to date with current events of the United States of America and the world. The visual is of a little girl wearing a pink dress holding a sign which reads “Planned Parenthood Kills Babies.” The background is a regular suburban neighbourhood. It made me think of death immediately thus appealing more to my emotions first than anything else. My second thought was how “planned parenthood” killed babies. The photo was taken by Stephen McGee for the New York Times…
This qualitative research methodology study was conducted to understand factors contributing to teen pregnancy among African-Americans in efforts to identify an effective pregnancy prevention program. Findings of this research were based on data collected from questionnaires and interviews of 43 African-Americans, which will assist with design and implementation of future pregnancy prevention programs. According to EBSCO Host, this is a peer-reviewed article.…
Judging people is a concept that children learn at a very young age. They constantly hear their parents talking about other families they know and their reputations. It’s just one of those facts of life that you were conditioned to know. Consequently, conclusions about different types of races and different types of classes are jumped to all the time. Is there a reason so many people have different standards for different races, especially in poverty stricken areas? Teen pregnancy is a growing problem in the U.S and sadly there is a correlation among races and socioeconomic standing. Lack of educational classes regarding sex, censorship in the media, and unobtainable contraceptives…
Cherish What You Have Today; It Might Not Be Here Tomorrow Oh, right! I think to myself. I gotta go feed my turtle! I always felt so guilty for not feeding my turtle knowing it could die any day from malnutrition.…
Colorism is the prejudice or discrimination based on the relative lightness or darkness of the skin. The documentary takes a look into the trend of black women all over the world investing in the multibillion dollar business of skin bleaching creams. Duke and Berry also examine how black women are trying to look more Caucasian, while white women are trying to look more ethnic by using tanning booths and botoxing their lips. Colorism appears to be more of an issue within ethnic groups. Within the black community, it is preferable to be “light skin”. The “paper bag test” is, holding a brown paper bag next to your skin, if you are lighter than the brown paper bag then you are considered beautiful and smart, if you are darker than the bag then you are considered unattractive. This discriminating method was once used to admit people into groups or organizations and even to get jobs. When interviewing black men on the street, they found that many said they prefer to date light-skin women because dark-skin women are “mean spirited, angry and unapproachable”. It was also found that a dark-skin women dating a dark-skin man is less common and even sometimes considered taboo compared to one individual in the relationship being lighter than the other. African American women are the least coupled group in the United States. Statistics show that 41.9% of black women in America have never been married,…
Lorena Garcia discusses the way in which minority girls view sexual identities. Particularly Latina and black girls, in which the population is “at risk” of teenage pregnancy. These girls believe that if one is unable to practice safe sex, whether that be with a condom or contraceptive, they will be considered “bad girls” due to their failed behavior. As would regularly, associating responsibility with abstinence is not the subject of being safe whereas it would be considered in other places. Women of this culture who are still engaged in sexual activity might still be classified as “good girls” so long as they prevent pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases. The women of the Latina culture compare themselves with pregnant women with…
Getting pregnant as a teenager gives you a higher risk of running into the social aspects and economical issues that surround today’s teenage parents. Although the rate of teenage pregnancy is higher among low income African-Americans and Hispanics, especially those in inner city, the number of births to teenagers is highest among white, non-poor young women who live in small cities and towns. (Calhoun 309)…
Life is a gift that we need to appreciate everyday no matter what your situation is. Misusing it will make you regret it later in the future and you will not be able to take that time back. In the excerpt by steve jobs from his 2005 Commencement Address at Stanford…
In this picture, Seal, the husband of Heidi Klum, is challenging the racial norm of marrying within the same race and having children that are not mixed race. Often times in society, a black man walking around with a child that is blonde and fair skin causes discrimination toward the parent and may even cause accusations that the child is not his. The TV show “What Would You Do” tested this concept by allowing a black man to walk around with a daughter that is blonde, similar to the picture of Seal and his daughter. An actor on the show began to ask the man what the relationship was with the girl, and then said, “I see a scared white girl with a black guy.” Society’s reaction to this act can often be dangerous and there are cases where biracial families have been labeled deviant and had their houses nearly burned to the ground.…
Don’t worry, everything is going to be fine. You’re just going to have to change the rest of your life. Many people think teen pregnancy is highly unlikely, until, well, your stomach starts to keep growing outward. The MTV show, Teen Mom, takes us into the lives of four pregnant teenage women who face the challenges and the struggles of having a child early in life. Many people might oppose my view and say that this show is completely worthless and just shows couples who have no idea what they’re doing, but for me, I believe that the show is an entertaining yet positive influence that brings out a visual reality of teenage pregnancy, a pregnancy that can change the rest of your life.…
Despite the multimillion-dollar campaign to educate adolescents on the risks of pre-marital sexual relationships the earlier portion of this decade has seen a dramatic increase in teen pregnancies, there for causing a missive economic backlash that can be felt in everyone's back pocket. Only now in the past few years has the number of teen pregnancies gone down, in fact in 1997 the number of teen-pregnancies reached an all time low, that quickly started to raise yet again. According to a study in the late 1980's black adolescents are more likely to become early parents than whites and other ethnic groups. According to that study 14% of adolescents are African-American female; and out all adolescents that have given birth 30% are African-American. It also show that half of all unmarried adolescent mothers are African-American. The study also yields that 40% of all first births of blacks are to teen-age parents; in comparison to the 20% of white teenage parents. "Teenage pregnancy can have significant negative social and economic consequences. Notably, about…
Teen pregnancy is a severe issue in our lives today where people become pregnant because they are insecure or not informed. Nearly four out of ten girls become pregnant at least once before the age of 20 ,but why does this happen? Most teens get pregnant because they want to know how it feels to raise a child or because they see others with children and they find them cute and want them to themselves. Others get pregnant because they don’t know about the different ways to stay safe. Many girls struggle with teen pregnancy because of their low confidence and self-worth. They feel that they are ugly and no male would show them attention unless they give them what they want.…
The theoretical perspective that teenage pregnancy best fits under is symbolic interactionist perspective. The technical definition of this perspective is that society is the sum of the interactions of individual…
In “The Pregnancy Project,” Gaby Rodriguez is the brave 18-year-old high school student who forces her school and community to confront its bad opinions and delusions about teen pregnancy. And she makes national headlines in the process of the project. The story begins with Gaby deciding that her senior project will be on stereotyping, which she decides to experience firsthand. Confiding in her mother Juana, her boyfriend Jorge and a few others, Gaby begins her social experiment in which she tells her friends, family and teachers that she is pregnant.…