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    prevent teenage pregnancy. Introduction I. It’s 3am and being a 17 year girl tucked away in your bed nice and warm; you hear blood curdling scream from the room next door. No it’s not an intruder it’s your two week old baby ready for his 3rd diaper change. II. By supporting the teaching of real life situations from sexual choices and education regarding pregnancy prevention‚ more teenagers will have access to appropriate information to make informed choices. III. A. Teenage pregnancy is a problem

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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

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    Television Media does not give a realistic image of Teen Pregnancy In the United States‚ teenage pregnancy has become a common occurrence with three out of ten girls getting pregnant before the age of twenty (Dooley). Most young teenagers feel as if conception will never come from their scandalous deeds but‚ in fact‚ it happens more often than what they think. The increasing media coverage on television programming‚ such as 16 and Pregnant and the movie‚ Juno‚ is showing the young adolescents‚ it

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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 out

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    Teen Pregnancies‚ STD’s‚ and Their Consequences Allison Dry COM/220 July 21‚ 2010 Camisha Williams Teen Pregnancies‚ STD’s‚ and Their Consequences Remember being a teenager and the cool thing to do was to smoke cigarettes? Or to act like you were with the candy sticks that had the red tips on them? Well now we all know that smoking is not the cool thing to do‚ but now there is something new that everyone thinks is the cool thing to do. Teen pregnancies are a big issue right now. 1/3 of

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    Teen pregnancy is an epidemic that has swept our nation for many years. It can alter the lives of teenagers in extreme measures. It is almost normal to see a teenager with a baby in today’s society. Getting pregnant while you’re a teen will definitely cause you to have to change your life style to accompany a child. This could mean not going to school or potentially dropping out of school permanently. Teen pregnancy will have a negative effect on the education of the teenager because it will force

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    teenage fathers will not be in there child’s life. Teen pregnancy is a major social and public health problem in the U.S. Teens have the highest pregnancy rate in the industrial world; 82 percent of the pregnancies were unplanned. Teenagers become pregnant at twice the rate of teens in other industrial countries‚ including England‚ Canada‚ and Wales. The Guttmacher Institute reports that 750‚000 teenagers 15 to 19 become pregnant each year. Teen pregnancies are tied to poverty‚ academic failure‚ child

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    7.5 Teen Pregnancy Work File Raquel Rossi Complete each of the activities below. Fact: Teenage mothers are more likely to drop out of school and only about one-third obtain a high school diploma. Fact: Teenage births are associated with lower annual income for the mother‚ 80% of whom eventually rely on welfare. 1. Read the two facts above and choose one of them. Discuss the possible ramifications for the teen parent’s future and the future of the child. (5 sentence minimum) (10

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    Theoretical Perspectives The Functionalist Theory is the idea that a society is made up of multiple interrelated parts that work together to maintain stability. If one part fails to do their job‚ the other parts must pick up the slack in order to keep the balance. To demonstrate this theory‚ I will be examining the show The 100. The post-apocalyptic show is set nearly 100 years after nuclear bombs destroyed life on Earth. People took refuge in a space station and continued with their lives until

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    disadvantages when compared to children raised in nuclear families. Many people believe that the implementation of sex education in schools and the addition of more federal aid for single parents are major causes for the country’s high rate of teen pregnancies. When the true purpose of sex education and federal aid is to help strengthen the mother and her child so that they can eventually lead productive lives. <br><br>The absence of a father figure in the home brings about a chain reaction of dilemmas

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