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.
I believe they should only be used in certain situations and should not be used all the time. The situations I don’t think they should be used in are for young women to get them. According to one source half the percentage of women getting an abortion done is below twenty-five. This is most likely due to a young woman or teenager not being careful with sex and then getting an abortion because they are not married and unable to take care of a baby. I believe, however, that if a girl is ready to have sex at a young age that she should have to face the consequences of getting pregnant if it happens.
Abstinence-plus Education Over the last several years, educators have debated whether Abstinence-only verses Abstinence- plus Education is the correct way to educate teens. Meanwhile, educators are beginning to recognize the growing number of young American adolescents who are becoming more sexually active at an even earlier age. In result, teen pregnancies, STDs, and the prevalence of AIDS has greatly affected the overall health of American teens, causing a major problem among young adults, and this epidemic has to be addressed. An effective approach for these issues is Abstinence-plus Education; not only does it encourages abstinence, but it also provides teens with the knowledge necessary to protect themselves if they decide to engage in intercourse. Abstinence-plus Education first, encourages teens to be abstinence, but recognizes that abstinence may not be the choice for all teens.
In many states, abortion is difficult to receive without parental consent. The laws that state this make it harder on the pregnant teen and unborn baby. If teen abortion was allowed without parental consent, there would be a lower mortality rate of teen moms and babies. Sadly, the age of sexually active teens lowers each year. When there is an unplanned pregnancy, teens are scared, and unsure as what to do.
Families often had less numbers of children as a cause of the reduced rate of the rates of mortality of infants, and also often strove to provide their children with opportunities in the world that they themselves never had, which is a concept that modern families have too. Married couples increasingly used contraceptive devices such as condoms to so that they can reduce the possibility of any unwanted pregnancies. At times, the care and concern of parents for their older children became very obsessive, so much so that children began to feel confined and began to have a need for greater independence. Prevailing biological and medical theories had led parents to think that their own emotional traits that they exhibited to be passed on to their children; therefore, they began to think that they were personally responsible for any abnormality that their children presented. This preoccupation of
To ensure that pregnancy rates, STD cases, and stress levels are low in teenagers, I feel that birth control pills and condoms should be readily available to high school students First of all, the pregnancy rates of high school teens in America are showing some large numbers. In 1987, researchers were seeing pregnancy rates in high school students at some very high points. Although, “teenage pregnancy rates have declined to about seventy-five per one thousand, down from a 1990 peak of one-hundred seventeen, nearly half of teens aged 15 to 19 report having had sex at least once, and almost seven-hundred fifty-thousand of them a year become pregnant (CBS News: Healthwatch).” The availability of contraceptives is a key component in the constant downslope of pregnancy numbers. As a matter of fact, some of the teens who got pregnant wanted to practice safe sex but couldn’t afford to purchase pills or condoms as needed. It is evident that if contraceptives were available in the schools around the country, the number of teenage pregnancies would cut down drastically.
There has been an ongoing and heated debate as to which sex education is the most effective and is producing the best results. The arguments for both sides are strong, however, comprehensive sexual education seems to be winning the race by providing teens with very comprehensive and thorough education and information while abstinence only just stresses “Don’t Do It.” Teen pregnancy has declined over the last few decades approximately 820,000 teens become pregnant each year (www.teenhelp.com). In addition, the United States has the highest teen pregnancy rate in the Western industrialized world (www.teenhelp.com). There are two forms of sex education – comprehensive and abstinence only education. Comprehensive sex education is the traditional “sex talk” education.
System Theory Anna Meece Eastern Kentucky University Introduction My At-Risk population is the children in foster care but not only are they in foster care these are the children that nobody wants. The boys and girls are older ages are harder to adopt because not many people want to take them. The only reason they get out of the system is by aging out of on rare occasions of going home, but that’s doesn’t happen often .They are an At-Risk population because there are so many of them right not in the system that it is getting to be an epidemic. Too many are going in and not enough are coming out. Sure they get placed in a very loving foster home but that foster home is not a pre adaptive one so they don’t get to know what a forever family
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.). For this paper I have conducted two interviews and I have also done research on why it is harder to be a single mother as a teenager. Due to the financial, emotional and physical struggles that teenage single mother have, it is more difficult for them to raise children than single mothers who are older. According to familyfirstaid.org , the United States has the highest rates of teen pregnancy and births in the “western industrialized world” (Teen Pregnancy Stats).
Divorced families, chemical addictions, casual sex, and violence against women are some of the contribution that girls have pressured on. Stress of the parents from yesterday was a lot more today. Yesterday, parents are worried about their sixteen year old daughter to drive but today, in a time of drive by shooting and car-jacking parents can be panicked. Parents have always worried about their daughter’s sexual behavior but today, in a time of date rapes, herpes, and AIDS, they can be sex-phobic. Traditionally, \parents have wondered what their teens doing, but today teens are much more likely to be doing things that can get them killed.