Condoms should be distributed in schools because of the growing number of teenage pregnancy‚ to minimize the spread of sexually transmitted diseases among adolescent and it is a good investment for the government to help control students irresponsible sexual behavior. Everyday thousands of sexually active teenagers are putting themselves at risk of getting pregnant‚ and as such there is an alarming rate of teenage pregnancies in schools which can have a negative impact on most teenagers’ life. According
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Social Construction of Teenage Pregnancy in the United States: Race‚ Class and Gender In the United States‚ an estimated forty five percent of all female teenagers have premarital sex. As a result‚ about forty percent of all female adolescents become pregnant at least once before age twenty; and about four-fifths of these pregnancies are unintended. Twenty percent of these female adolescents bear a child‚ and about half of them are unmarried (Lawson and Rhode‚ 2). In a society that associates
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Sexuality: TEEN PREGNANCY Social Problem * Teenage Pregnancy has become an increasing social problem in the U.S. today. * Guttmacher.org (research institute for sexual health) states that an average of 750‚000 women between ages 15-19 get pregnant every year. * Nearly 1/3 of all teen pregnancies end in abortion * 10% of all U.S. births are to teens * 2/3 of all teen pregnancies occur among 18-19 year olds Consequences of teen pregnancy * Many teen mothers stop after
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WRI 102- Teen Pregnancy: Paying the price for your own actions. Teen pregnancy has always been a problem‚ but latest studies and statistics show us that even with increased sex education‚ teen pregnancy is increasing causing many concerns for our society. What is teen pregnancy? The obvious simple answer may be a teenager getting pregnant. Just for a couple of minutes of “fun”‚ most teenagers put themselves into a lifetime of distress. Furthermore‚ teens today do not think about the consequences
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The teenage pregnancy strategy began in 1999 with a target to cut half the teenage pregnancies in the UK by 2010. The research from the social exclusion unit set the report on teenage pregnancy and this became the Government’s Strategy over the next 10 years. Political objectives are the Government ideology on what needs to happen and what actually happens in society‚ focus is now on their objectives‚ supporting identified vulnerable groups with low aspirations and lack of motivation. Vulnerability
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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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of Teenage Pregnancy . I have conducted a research in which parents or guardian and also the people of my community can be aware of the causes of Teenage Pregnancy . The Rae town community is a small environment .I live in this community for 17 years now ;during these years I have seen that teenagers are getting pregnant at a early age and getting kick out of school. So I decide to go ahead and do a investigation on this specific topic.In this project the reader will learn more about teenage pregnancy
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Teenage pregnancy is a universal problem that accompanies the beginning of sexual activity at increasingly younger ages. Surprisingly‚ only one in 5 youth do not have intercourse before the age of 20‚ and in the United States alone‚ annually‚ almost one million teenagers between the ages of 15 19 becomes pregnant (Rector‚ 2007). Sexual activity among adolescents is a major problem confronting the nation and the world. Consequently‚ this has led to a rising incidence of sexually transmitted diseases
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1. (Robin Elise Weiss‚ LCCE) Another problem facing teen mothers is the use of drugs and alcohol‚ including cigarette smoking. No amount of any of these substances is safe for use in pregnancy. In fact‚ their use can complicate pregnancy even further increasing the likelihood of premature birth and other complications. 2. Rebecca B. Singson In the Philippines‚ the sexual revolution has ushered in a period in which the average adolescent experiences tremendous pressures to have sexual experiences
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decisions about school‚ work and relationships as other teenagers must make. In designing interventions to help young women make the transition from adolescence to adulthood without having an unintended birth‚ it is important to understand the life circumstances‚ motivations and events that lead some unmarried teenagers to become pregnant and the processes involved in the decision to carry a nonmarital teenage pregnancy to term. Some researchers have investigated factors influencing the pregnancy options
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