Aneta Karkut English 102 Instructor Pols 6 March 2013 Paper #3 How to Stop the Rise of Teenage Pregnancy I turn on my television and an MTV show is on. I spend a little time watching it‚ though I’m not sure what I am watching. There are girls that look my age‚ and I see they have children. They are arguing with their boyfriends and their parents‚ but most look happy overall. A commercial comes on it tells me “16 and Pregnant” will be right back. Curious about the name and the concept of
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Teen Pregnancy Among the industrialized nations‚ the United States has by far the highest rate of teen pregnancy. (Finer) Teen pregnancy has been a growing issue for years‚ but recently has become a more popular trend. The issue effects not only the pregnant teen‚ but both teens parents‚ our government/society‚ and most importantly the child itself. There are many negative effects regarding this issue‚ but people nowadays seem to brush it off because of how society views teen pregnancy as a whole
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Teen pregnancy is one of the most difficult experiences a young person might ever face when it interrupts school or other plans. It can create an emotional crisis resulting in feelings of shame and fear‚ and it may appear that you will crumble under pressures in your environment. The stress of how you are going to break this news to your parents might be even greater‚ and finding help may seem an impossible task. You might think no one can help you‚ or you might be too embarrassed to search for
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Teenage pregnancy is a common social problem in both Western and Eastern cultures. In United States‚ the statistics show that more than 3‚000 teens get pregnant every day and the half them give births (McCoullough & Scherman(1991)‚ cited in Yucel‚ 2003). Although teenage pregnancy may be considered as a positive experience‚ studies show that teenage pregnancy is associated with psychological‚ social and physical problems. The pregnancy rates reveal that the number of unintended pregnancy is very
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EPIDEMIOLOGY OF ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY This essay aims to use the principles of epidemiology to describe the problem of adolescent pregnancy and demonstrate its significance and impact as a public health problem. In the same wise applying epidemiological principles the determinants of teenage pregnancy are identified and an attempt is made to conceptualise the interplay between the socioeconomic environments and the biological factors in giving rise to the problem and influencing the life course
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Organization‚ convened the 2014 National Summit on Teen Pregnancy last April 24. This summit‚ which saw the active participation of adolescent youth‚ delivered a clear message: Adolescent sexual and reproductive health (ASRH)‚ or the lack thereof‚ is fast becoming the defining 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
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TOPIC: ORAL CONTRACEPTION RESEARCH QUESTION: SHOULD HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS BE ALLOWED TO HAVE ORAL CONTRACEPTION WITHOUT PARENTAL CONSENT? THESIS STATEMENT: RESEARCH SUGGEST THAT HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO HAVE ORAL CONTACPETION WITHOUT PARENTAL CONSENT BECAUSE THIS WILL HELP REDUCE THE OCCURANCE AND RISK ASSOCIATED WITH TEEN PREGNANCY AND ABORTION AND REDUCE THE FINANCIAL BURDEN ON TAX PAYERS. MAIN POINTS: ·Easier access to to oral contraception will reduce the occurrence of unwanted
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1. INTRODUCTION Teen pregnancy is pregnancy in human females under the age of 20 at the time that the pregnancy ends. A pregnancy can take place in a pubertal female before menarche (the first menstrual period)‚ which signals the possibility of fertility‚ but usually occurs after menarche. In well-nourished girls‚ menarche usually takes place around the age of 12 or 13. Teenage pregnancy is also defined as an unintended pregnancy during adolescence. Teen pregnancy is something that affects over one
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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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Methodology 3 Results Teen Pregnancy Statistics 4 Negative Impact and Shame 4 Support for Teen Mothers 5 Don’t Be a Statistic 6 My Personal Experience 7 Conclusion: There’s Hope for Teen Mothers 10 Works Cited
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