Teen pregnancy prevention – How can I prevent pregnancy? There are many ways to prevent teenage pregnancies. Popular solutions include discussions of “safe sex” practices. In addition to condoms‚ doctors can prescribe birth control pills that regulate the fertility of a woman’s eggs‚ or advise the use of other pregnancy prevention tools‚ like intra-uterine devices or spermicides. These options are not 100% effective. There is even the option of abortion‚ which terminates the pregnancy at the
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TEENAGE PREGNANCY IN MALAYSIA Introduction News headlines such as “The trials of teen mothers” and “Teen probed for throwing baby from window” can be seen in our papers every other week as we are faced with the ever-growing problem of teenage pregnancy. In most reported cases‚ these hapless young women even attempt to abandon their new-borns in the most harrowing ways. Sexuality without social maturity often leads to pregnancy. These mothers are at high risk of not finishing school which often
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This addresses unplanned teenage pregnancy from a human-rights-based perspective. Many programs focus only on the negative aspects of young people’s sexual and reproductive health; putting rights at the centre of teenage sexual health avoids treating adolescents as a homogeneous collection of discrete problems. Taking a rights-based approach to adolescent sexual and reproductive health encompasses the inter-relationships and complexity of factors influencing choices and decisions. In this‚ we
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TEENAGE PREGNANCY RESEARCHERS: Camana‚ Hazel Zinia M. Baclayo‚ Shelamitte F. Batiola‚ Harvey T. TABLE OF CONTENTS Page ACKNOWLEGEMENT ……………………………………………………………………………………………………. 1 INTRODUCTION (Background of the study) …………………………………………………………………………………………….2 CURRENT PROBLEMS/ ISSUES ………………………………………………………………………………………
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DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES Save $$$s onottled water!!!- Unplanned Teenage Pregnancy and the Support Needs of Young Mothers Part B: Review of literature Prepared by Krystyna Slowinski Research‚ Analysis and Information Team November 2001 Contents Executive Summary ………………………………………………………….. 1 1.. Introduction …………………………………………………………….… 5 1.1 Background ………………………………………………………………. 5 1.2 Methodology …………………………………………..…..……..….…. 6 1.3 Language and Terminology ……………………..…..…….…….. 6 2. Adolescent
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The Impact of Teen Pregnancy on Young Mothers Jennifer West Kaplan University CM220
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Teenage Pregnancy and a Way to Prevent It Teenage pregnancy it can ’t happen to me. This is the mindset that most teenagers have these days. Teenagers feel that they are invincible and that things‚ such as pregnancy‚ happens to others‚ but that they are immune to it. A lot of teenagers believe that you can ’t get pregnant the first time you have sex‚ if a girl is on her period‚ pregnancy cannot occur‚ among other myths. The reason teens believe this is that the education on sex isn ’t teaching
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Teenage Pregnancy 5/2/12 Purpose: To persuade the audience to support the prevention of teenage pregnancy. Thesis: The problem of teenage pregnancy should be prevented rather than glorified. Claim: Policy Organizational Pattern: Problem-Solution I. Introduction A. Attention Getter: In today’s society‚ teens are faced with many pressures. The effect of these pressures put on them is the inability to make good decisions when it comes to certain situations
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by her mother’s “friend”. As a result‚ she has an unwanted pregnancy. She is angry with her mother because she didn’t do anything to protect her. People in society are misjudging her. Yah-yah is frustrated and on the verge of suicide. Teenage pregnancy has been a phenomenon since biblical ages. Dr. Michelle Golland stated‚ The United States has the highest teen pregnancy rate in the industrialized world. There are 750‚000 teen pregnancies annually. The Caribbean has not escaped this plague. A study
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most number of teenage pregnancy cases‚ it is also alarming to know that the Philippines‚ among the ASEAN sectors‚ is the only nation wherein the rate is increasing. Adolescents make up twenty one percent of the total population of the Philippines‚ and about ten percent of the girls who are aged fifteen to nineteen have already gotten pregnant. These numbers are striking for a country that is dubbed as conservative‚ but these are the facts and it must be faced. Teenage pregnancy is a serious crisis
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