Also, the father of the child may not stick around because he too is scared of the responsibility of raising a child, and his whole life is going to change if he decides to stay around. So the pregnant teen ends up becoming a single mother. According to Hanna B., approximately 10% of all births occur to teenage mothers worldwide. This “phenomenon” is of concern because teenage mothers are reported to be “disadvantaged financially, educationally, and cognitively” in both the short and long term span. Many teenage mothers find strength in their motherhood role but this does not come without cost to themselves or their children, as many teenagers are considered unsuitable to be parents and do not have the right support (B.).
While the negative consequences of teenage pregnancy are felt most by young women and their children, it is important that strategies to reduce teenage pregnancy also impact on young men's attitudes and behavior. Teenage pregnancy is a complex issue, affected by young people's knowledge about sex and relationships and their access to advice and support; and influenced by aspirations, educational attainment, parental, cultural and peer influences and levels of emotional well-being. Pregnancy options- If you are pregnant, you have three options. First, you can stay pregnant and become a parent, with or without the support of the other parent. Second, you can carry the pregnancy to term (when the baby is ready to be born), and then give the baby up for adoption.
The constant exposure of a sexually oriented society has caused many teens to become parents at an early age. The results of this have caused a major breakdown in one of the strongest structural units, which is the family. Families all over the United States are confronted with issues of teen pregnancy and adolescent sexuality. It is unfortunate that the television and music industries provide avenues for the exploitation of sexually contented materials. What society intended as vehicles for entertainment and bringing families together, has proven to be harmful to the minds of adolescents.
This article was very informative about the statistics of Fathers who are not getting the opportunity to help in the care of their children because they are having to work to pay the many bills of having a disabled child. The author states that 84% of fathers feel financial pressure are are forced to work long hours. They say that they keep their disabled children a secret because they feel as though they are treated differently. They also think that Mothers are treated differentl y at groups and fathers are excluded in the group settings. They feel more confident in caring for their chidren at their home but not outside of their comfort zone.
Many parents have trouble on deciding when to talk to their kids about birth control or just taking them to go get birth control. Parents have the decision on whether or not you support their teens on having sex by giving them birth control. Many parents face the fact that their child may get pregnant or get someone pregnant if they are sexually active. So, the problem is do parents give the child birth control or is it supporting their child to be sexually active? An unexpected pregnancy as a teen can be a devastating occurrence.
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Single mothers and fathers have a hard time raising one child let alone two or three but yet they keep on having child after child. Society’s views on a few things need to change to be able to get the foster care system under control because if families could take care of the kids they had then there would be no problems. I understand there are special circumstances but the number of children in the system is outrageous. I feel like what has led my client to be put into the foster care system is his or her own parents neglect. This could be neglect of just the child or neglect of substances or responsibilities whatever it is they didn’t step up to the plate like they should have when they had they kid and therefore the government did and
Shannon Crook Dr. Lyon GenEd 1401-008 3 Mar 2014 Stay Together for the Kids? Is it better for children to grow up in a single-parent family where there is love than in a dysfunctional two-parent family where there is bitterness and hostility? Many will argue that being raised by a single parent is not beneficial because, sources show that children’s development is negatively impacted and that a second parent is needed to share responsibility in the home (Mac Con 166; Lapierre-Adamcyk, Marcil-Gratton and Le Bourdais 53). Circumstances like having an alcoholic parent or being in a destructive environment are not considered. In cases like this, it is beneficial to be with the more stable parent.
Welfare Reforms The dream of most women is to have the traditional family, which includes a husband and their children. There are more single mothers in this day and age that face more challenges on the way to achieving the American Dream. They find it hard to provide financially even working a full-time job because the pay is normally minimum wage and most still rely on public assistance to make ends meet. Some single mothers lack education and work experience, which prevents them from obtaining a decent paying job. Budget cuts to welfare programs are making it that much harder for the single mother to provide the necessities for their children because these supplemental programs are necessary to the day to day workings of a family.
Family circumstances can be a major cause of poverty. This begins when the parents are unmotivated and unwilling to show his or her child that working hard is the only way to succeed and have an improved life style. Parents in middle-class homes may also contribute to poverty by giving their child too much and never making them work or figure things out for themselves. Another family related matter for people that live in poverty is coming from dysfunctional families. The children of those damaged families may have been a victim of mental and physical abuse; consequently, those children now have grown into adults and he or she may have low self-esteem.