Teen pregnancy proceeds as a major issue with more than half of all teenagers in the United States stating that they had participated in sexual intercourse at least one point before high school ended. For these reasons, its highly probably for teen pregnancy to happen when one becomes sexually active at a young age and don’t realize the consequences. Teen mothers whom 2 doubtlessly received the proper education are “less likely to complete high school, tend to earn less and are disproportionately poor. About 50 percent of all teen mothers are on welfare within one year of the birth of their first
The middle classes sit down together to eat a family meal. Working-class mealtimes are earlier and often in front of the TV. Reay (1998) stated that middle-class mothers influence their children’s schooling more than working-class mothers. Working-class mums have less time to devote to their children due to the demands of paid employment. Working-class mums lacked confidence in education/school due to their own negative experiences in school.
In addition of going to school, working class students also have to get a job to be able to help out their families. Working class students have always struggled to get by during their years in college but most of these students have families who support their dreams of coming out of poverty and become somebody with no pressures. However there are also students who lack family support and deal with these issues alone throughout college. According to the New York Times article For Poor, Leap to College Often Ends in a Hard Fall, “Likely reasons [that low income students drop out of college]
U.S. divorce rates have been rising since the beginning of the 20th century. More than a quarter of people age 18-44 come from a divorced family. Psychologists have known little about the long term effect this has on kids and are just now coming out with useful information. (“BreakupBacklash”) Researcher Sara Hara Estroff Marano(www.psychology.com) found that effects of divorce depend on what happened in the marriage before the divorce occurred. For example, kids that have lots of high conflict in their family are happier after the divorce occurs.
The demand for higher level courses and enhanced skills has increased the pressure on states to common assessments. This means higher stakes to the public school system. Unfortunately with the increase in poverty levels more students are coming to school hungry which impacts their ability to learn. In 2000 kids were eligible for reduced price lunches, but since then the price has steadily gone up every year, and now there is barely a difference in price. Many parents can’t afford to send their kids to school with a lunch, and with the price of lunches going up how can we expect these children get the best education available?
Today’s teen are not riding bikes, playing with dolls or reading they are drinking, partying and having sex. After school programs are have been cut out of the budget of the county so what is there to do parent are working overtime to come up with the rent. There are many dangers from having abortions as a
By letting teens try and figure out sex on their own only increases the risk of STDs and pregnancy. Not being informed is worse than being informed and knowing the safest way to approach the situation. Through Jane Friedman’s article “Do abstinence-only programs discourage teen sex” on CQ Researcher, one can learn that the sexual debate should be given to the comprehensive sexual education side. There are too many problems with the abstinence-only program and almost every argument on their side can be argued. Comprehensive sexual education is the best way to reduce the number of STD’s and teen pregnancy in the United
Sex workers sometimes end up pregnant and they have a hard time finding out the father of their children truly is. It is very important to wear a condom during sexual activities. The sexual contact between prostitutes and married men is one of the leading causes of the spread of AIDS into the general population. Even though the prostitutes can catch sexually transmitted diseases, there should be a program to give prostitutes special care to treat them and help them prevent getting any diseases (Robert). Legalizing prostitution could significantly reduce the spread of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) such as Aids (Hart).
Annually, that adds up to about 1.2 million students who will not graduate from high school with their peers as scheduled.” As you can see, the number of high school dropouts is skyrocketing. There are many reasons why a student would have to drop out before being able to complete high school. To start off with, there are many high school girls that get pregnant anywhere between their sophomore year and their senior year, and they cannot finish off school. It is very difficult to have a baby and stay on track in school to graduate. Another reason why a student would have to dropout is because their family needs finical help.
Causes and effects of Poverty A starting point for causing poverty can be as simple as early age pregnancies. It is always said ‘Teenage pregnancy generally leads to being in poverty for the majority of your life’, but why is this? Having a baby in your teen years can create unnecessary stress, this could lead to being distracted from school work or even worse, dropping out of school all together. This would leave you with no real qualifications and in the current economic situation the chances are that you will become one of growing number of unemployed young adults. At this point, money will most likely become the main objective.