The Cause and Effect of Teenage Pregnancy Each year‚ over seven hundred and fifty thousand teenage girls become pregnant. The United States has the highest rate of teen pregnancy in the world followed by Slovakia‚ Hungary and New Zealand. Teenage pregnancy costs the American taxpayers 9.1 billion a year due to health‚ foster care‚ and social services (Porta). The teen pregnancy epidemic affects not only the parents‚ the children and their families; it also affects society as a whole. How can we
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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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on Teen Pregnancy B.T HCS/465 October 23‚ 2011 Annotated Bibliography on Teen Pregnancy Clinical Digest. (2009). Aggression is a predictor of rapid repeat teen pregnancy: pubertal onset age and conflict management key considerations in prevention strategies. Nursing Standard‚ 23(24)‚ [16]. Retrieved from http://www.cinahl.com/cgi-bin/refsvc?jid= 530&accno=2010217733 This article provides data from actual interviews with teens that have has rapid repeat pregnancies within
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How to prevent teen pregnancy has been a question for many years now. Statistics have been running wild trying to keep up with the teenage generation. Many people have their opinions on the subject (teen pregnancy)‚ because teens seem to be getting pregnant all so fast these days. People fail to realize that having a baby is supposed to be a sort of privilege. Many people take having a baby as a joke. Getting pregnant and having a child involves many pros/cons. For example having a child can be harder
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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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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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like 16 and Pregnant‚ and its spin off Teen Mom have given adolescents different views on what it’s like to be a parent. Although it does show the struggles of raising a child‚ going to school‚ and having a job. It also shows how you can make an easy profit from just having a it. Over the two years of their debut‚ 16 and Pregnant and Teen Mom has collected a significant amount of attention in the entertainment media. A poll was commissioned stated ‚” most teens (79% of girls and 67% of boys) agree
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Factors that Lead to Teen Pregnancy Although the overall rate of teen pregnancy has been declining‚ the rates have remained high for teens that are most vulnerable. The great majority of Americans believe that teen pregnancies are a serious national problem‚ indeed a problem that is the major component of what is thought to be national moral decline. However‚ what causes these teens to become pregnant at such a young age? These include factors in the community and the family such as violent crime
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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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