issue of this generation of young Filipinos. Without a robust response from all stakeholders‚ the Philippines is on track toward a full-blown‚ national teenage pregnancy crisis. Staggering facts support this call for concern. Recent (2014) data from the Philippine Statistical Authority (PSA) reveal that every hour‚ 24 babies are delivered by teenage mothers. According to the 2014 Young Adult Fertility and Sexuality (YAFS) study‚ around 14 percent of Filipino girls aged 15 to 19 are either pregnant
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Teenage pregnancy can be defined as pregnancy of women who have not reached twenty years when the pregnancy ends regardless of the marital status. In South Africa one in three girls has had a pregnancy before the age of twenty. The community at large is aware of the problem of teenage pregnancy. Young women in our communities are falling pregnant while still at school‚ which limits their ability to achieve their long awaited goals in life. It also puts them at high risk of being infected with HIV
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Suicide The natural end of every human life is death. Some people‚ for reasons that have never been fully understood‚ choose to end their own lives. This is called suicide‚ which means literally "self-killing." According to Dryden-Edwards (2013)‚ Suicide is the process of purposely ending one’s own life. The way societies view suicide varies widely according to culture and religion. For example‚ many Western cultures‚ as well as mainstream Judaism‚ Islam‚ and Christianity tend to view killing
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TEENAGE STRESS Laura sits in her room surrounded by a stack of notes‚ cramming for a test that she entirely forgot about‚ while James stares blankly at a college application. He also has the knowledge that he must be at work in 20 minutes‚ and that his car hardly has any gas left in it. Both of these teenagers suffer from a common dilemma‚ stress. Stress is a reaction to external and internal pressure. It is a normal function that helps people in their daily lives ("Stress: Who"). Without
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Among all the actions that take place there are many factors make you take your course of response in your everyday life. In William Shakespeare’s Hamlet he creates a cause and effect in the course of actions that take place. William Shakespeare’s Hamlet creates a person who is influenced by hatred and makes rash decisions. Some of the major characters in the Shakespeare’s story include Hamlet‚Claudius‚and Gertrude. Hamlet is really upset that his uncle married his mother. This is especially upsetting
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| | When something is reported in a sensational manner it typically causes a media frenzy. When this happens the information is not always correct. The media reports can cause the public to panic or rally together. This type of reporting is not limited to just the news reports. It can be anything that is reported‚ from an attack to news in the medical fields. It can be easier for reporters to report on superficial controversies then to research more in depth and substantive problems. The
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Teenage Prostitution “I had been sleeping on a park bench for three nights…. The fourth night…I met a man named Troy‚ who was really good to me at first…. Little did I know that my problems were about to begin” (Flowers 108). Prostitution can be a dangerous and scarce lifestyle for many teenage girls‚ but exists within the United States. These girls grow up very quickly and their innocence may be shattered through this profession‚ but many lack the knowledge of the true meaning behind prostitution
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Imagine yourself walking in and finding a friend or a loved one hanging from a rope or seeing them dead‚ lying next to an empty bottle of pills or in a pool of blood‚ with a razor in their hand. Suicide is not rare to society today. Every 14.2 minutes someone in the United States dies by suicide. Suicide has become a neglected subject‚ in my opinion‚ because it is not an easy subject to talk about. Many people fear losing a loved one‚ especially if they feel that they could’ve done helped that person
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“Causes and Effects of Broken Relationship” A relationship is normally viewed as a connection between two individuals‚ such as a romantic relationship between a boy and a girl. A typical relationship is built through a deep‚ ineffable feeling of tenderly caring towards the person the relationship is concerned to. The conception of relationship encompasses a wealth of different feelings‚ from the passionate desire and intimacy of romantic love to the nonsexual emotional closeness of familial. Thus
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Suicide (Latin suicidium‚ from sui caedere‚ "to kill oneself") is the act of intentionally causing one’s own death. Suicide is often committed out of despair‚ the cause of which is frequently attributed to a mental disorder such as depression‚ bipolar disorder‚ schizophrenia‚ borderline personality disorder‚[1] alcoholism‚ or drug abuse.[2] Stress factors such as financial difficulties or troubles with interpersonal relationships often play a role. Efforts to prevent suicide include limiting access
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