Suddenly Teen Pregnancy Is Cool By Cathy Gulli Analysis

Christian Covile
September 20, 2013
English& Writing II
Theresa Stowell
I’m a Pregnant New Born
Final
Growing up in a family of nine seems pretty big. Although my mother was twenty-one when she had her first child, society still felt that was a rather low age to withhold a pregnancy. Upon my reading of Cathy Gulli’s article on teenage pregnancy, she opens reader’s eyes to a bigger picture upon youth sex, or what I call “sex for dummies.” In “Suddenly Teen Pregnancy is Cool?” she stresses her opinion that modern things in society such as celebrities, movies, home life and many other things are issues that ignite the fuel of teen pregnancy. She also put emphasis on the generation, age, as well as countries in which are most effected
As she gave examples of media pregnancies, social acceptance, why the rise and many other reasons, she backs her thoughts up with various amounts of data. I am not here to give my opinion on if her perspective is correct or incorrect, but to a point, her unity, consistency as well as her organization could have been focused on more than what readers have observed. The high rate of teen pregnancy as well as programs designed to reduce this number are at a common low right now in the U.S, but the problem is that most teenage pregnancies are unintended and less likely to be because of young celebrities or societal acceptance. Many of her examples are true, in which her data backs her opinion for example; “The rising American teen birth rate in 2006 is something of an eye-opener” meaning weather good or bad, in 2006 there was a lot of attention focusing on the teen birth rate at that time or in 2006. (Gulli
Though her stability was off, her focus on what her topic was intended to do by grabbing her audience attention on teen pregnancy in which it did. There are many things she said within her text that could have been narrowed down to one sentence, For example she stresses information on teen birth rate on three different countries (422). Although this data was pretty consistent, she begins to talk about how today’s society we feel that there’s no issue with having sex at a young age and how it’s not unusual that she wouldn’t get a call about twelve and thirteen year olds expecting babies. As we read along, she begins to contradict herself about her proposal on teen pregnancy and how young celebrities with babies image gives of the vibe to young female teens that’s its ok as well. This is what made her argument not weak, but wasn’t as strong as it could have been. She jumps back and forth on things that didn’t need to be stated like “Poor Access to emergency contraception and abortion also may explain the increase in teen birth (423).” Statements like these are not proven