level of awareness of the students in teenage pregnancy
Chapter I
The Problem and Its Background
Introduction
Teen pregnancy is a crisis that concerns the baby, parents, other members of the family, as well as resources of the community. It had been said that awareness is the first step 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 main suspicion is that it happens because of curiosity, peer influence, pressure in relationships and lack of parental supervision. I for one was never given “the talk” of “the birds and the bees”. Our family is a firm believer that mating was only allowed to happen once you were married, so it is safe to say that we consider pre-marital sex a big no-no. I didn’t even learn much about sex education of safe sex guidelines in high school, mostly because I had studied in a catholic school and some of the teachers there considered the talk of sex as taboo.
Most of what I know now comes from my friends in college, television shows and of course, the internet.
There is a rising trend of young women becoming mothers at an early age which brought the country to a shocking state. Teenage Motherhood has greatly affected the lives of young women, nowadays. As for the reason of such an early problem, we will know that later in this research.
Teen childbearing inflicts far reaching long-term disadvantages on the mother, her child, and society. In general, teen births have negative medical, social, and economic outcomes including high risks for premature birth and low birth weight for infants, infant mortality, childhood illness, reduced educational
The Problem and Its Background
Introduction
Teen pregnancy is a crisis that concerns the baby, parents, other members of the family, as well as resources of the community. It had been said that awareness is the first step 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 main suspicion is that it happens because of curiosity, peer influence, pressure in relationships and lack of parental supervision. I for one was never given “the talk” of “the birds and the bees”. Our family is a firm believer that mating was only allowed to happen once you were married, so it is safe to say that we consider pre-marital sex a big no-no. I didn’t even learn much about sex education of safe sex guidelines in high school, mostly because I had studied in a catholic school and some of the teachers there considered the talk of sex as taboo.
Most of what I know now comes from my friends in college, television shows and of course, the internet.
There is a rising trend of young women becoming mothers at an early age which brought the country to a shocking state. Teenage Motherhood has greatly affected the lives of young women, nowadays. As for the reason of such an early problem, we will know that later in this research.
Teen childbearing inflicts far reaching long-term disadvantages on the mother, her child, and society. In general, teen births have negative medical, social, and economic outcomes including high risks for premature birth and low birth weight for infants, infant mortality, childhood illness, reduced educational