Teen Pregnancy and Sex Education The consensus is that sex education is necessary for pre-teen and teenagers to receive information about their bodies‚ reduce the risk of pregnancy‚ and disease (Combellick & Brindis‚ 2011). Many states have mandates on the curriculum of sex education and what grades to present the information to the students (Jacobson‚ 2011). On average‚ students receive sex education in 6th or 7th grade and 9th or 10th grade (Bigos‚ 2012). The problem is in
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Teenage Pregnancy: Society’s Newest Trend After being raised with three sisters‚ I’ve come to notice that your typical teenage girl spends the majority of her time thinking about clothes‚ school‚ and boys. While I could be wrong about the clothes and school part‚ the numbers give me a leg to stand on when it comes to boys‚ 76.4 girls per 1‚000 females who are pregnant are spending all of their time worrying about bringing a child into the world due to teen pregnancy (Henshaw‚ 2004). Within the
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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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Cause and Effects of Teen Pregnancy Teen pregnancy is considered an on-going problem in today’s society. Teens today are not well educated and don’t always take the right steps to prevent pregnancy‚ even if they are educated within the area. Teen pregnancy affects many people in the process and could end up having long term affects and health risks on the mother and child. Many people are very judgmental when it comes to teen pregnancy but they don’t truly understand that not every child is educated
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teenage fathers will not be in there child’s life. Teen pregnancy is a major social and public health problem in the U.S. Teens have the highest pregnancy rate in the industrial world; 82 percent of the pregnancies were unplanned. Teenagers become pregnant at twice the rate of teens in other industrial countries‚ including England‚ Canada‚ and Wales. The Guttmacher Institute reports that 750‚000 teenagers 15 to 19 become pregnant each year. Teen pregnancies are tied to poverty‚ academic failure‚ child
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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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