...The Effects of Teenage Relationships Different relationships affect teenagers in various ways. Friends impact teenagers almost the same amount as their parents. Teenagers go to their friends for help or to ask questions that they could not ask their parents about. Most of the time their friends give them good advice but then there is the down side when they put pressure on their friends to do something like to smoke, drink, and do drugs. In most cases they tell their friends how to dress and act when around certain people. Love relationships just make it even harder for a teenager to get a good education. Some start to fail in school because they are hanging out with their boyfriend or girlfriend instead of doing their work. Throughout adolescence, teenagers are positively and negatively impacted by several relationships such as friends, family, and love relationships. Friends have a big influence on teenagers because they can say and do many of things to teenagers who think they were friends. They also start rumors and take their friends girlfriend or boyfriend and have them cheat on their friend. Some go out to drink, smoke, or to do drugs just to have fun but some think of driving home and most teenagers do not even make it to their driveways. Some teenagers who are so depressed about their social problems even think about committing suicide. Most start to hurt others turn into “goth’s” by dressing in all black. Many of depressed people show how they feel by dressing differently...
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...Teenage Pregnancy A Significant New Zealand Health Issue In the following assignment I will discuss the significance of teenage pregnancy, as a health issue, in New Zealand. This discussion will include the significance of the issue itself, and its impact on both infants and teenage mothers. I will consider this topic looking at populations in New Zealand and include international comparisons. In the last century there has been significant changes in family size, reproductive patterns and population dynamics. As shown by the New Zealand Health Information Statistics, when looking at births, it is apparent that New Zealand women now have fewer children, later in their lives, and many forgo parenting altogether (Statistics NZ , 2003). New Zealand is said to rate high in International comparisons for teenage pregnancy. However, most recently reports have indicated a drop in our teenage birth rates. Statistics New Zealand (2002) reported the birth rate for teenagers (aged under 20 years) dropped by 6.5 percent, from 27.7 per 1,000 in 2001 to a new low of 25.9 per 1,000 in 2002. The following table summarises these significant changes in birth patterns by age of mother over the past ten years. Distribution of Live Births by Age of Mother 1992 and 2002 Table 1. Statistics New Zealand Another recent report from the National Youth Health Survey...
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...Preventing Teen Pregnancy Institution Affiliation Name Introduction Prevention of teen pregnancy is a national priority. For instance, teen pregnancy and birth rates in the United States continues to be higher than other Western industrialized nations. To address teen pregnancy prevention, it is advisable first to understand what teen pregnancy is, causes of the teen pregnancy as well as the effect on the nation and fundamental community as well as a family (Nolan & Mary, 2009). Teen pregnancy is simply pregnancy in a female under the age of 20 at the time that the pregnancy is conceived. The act is associated with a variety of factors and effects. Prevention Teen pregnancy is a critical public health issue since it directly affects the instant and long-term welfare of a child, mother, and father. The act contributed school dropout among most of the female as well as increasing foster and health care costs. In addition, it has provided to a broad range of age-related problems for teen born children (Kaplan, Beth & Susan, 2007). Causes of teen pregnancy There couple of factors which contributes to teen pregnancy that include the following; Peer Pressure Teens habitually feel pressure to make groups or friends and fit in with their peers during their adolescence. Most of the times these teenagers let their groups influence their choice to have sex even when they are not fully aware or understand the consequences and magnitude associated with the action...
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...depths of high risk teenagers and risky sexual behavior. My inspiration for this project comes from my cousin personal experience with becoming pregnant of an early age young age due to her promiscuous behavior. My topic relates to the course content in terms of children at risk throughout my life arts project work I will provide an overview of research pertaining to adolescent's decision making, early sexual activity, and other risky behaviors, as well as describing the roles of parent and school on what they need in assisting teens in avoiding life altering decisions. The method that I will use is "How open are you" questionnaire that will pertain to my peers of which many are parents on how open are they in talking to their teens about sexual activity as well, as literature review. In my oral presentation, I will present my findings. The term risky behavior is almost always used in a sexual sense, implying behaviors and actions that increase the chance of contracting or transmitting disease, and the increase the chance of the occurrence of unwanted pregnancy. In today's society, sexual activity has become more prevalent amongst teenagers. This social issue has been argued by many, of the contributing factors that would cause teens to engage in sexual behaviors. The factors that contribute to these behaviors vary. Skimming though the channels on television, one may notice that the language, sexual content and themes for programs targeting teenagers have dramatically changed...
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...Adoption” Anthony Arcieri Dr. Bob Baron English 102 July 26th, 2012 OUTLINE History of Adoption A. Origination of Adoption B. Reasons For Adopting Early Pregnancy in the United States A. Teen Pregnancy B. Teen Moms Financial Struggles Emotional Struggles and Suicide Positives of Adoption A. Abortion Alternative B. Better the Quality of Life C. A Second Chance Arcieri 1 Recent studies in the United States have shown that thirty-four percent of teenage women will become pregnant at least once before the age of twenty. Of the 820,000 teen pregnancies each year seventy-nine percent occur out of wedlock, while one third never achieve a high school diploma or GED (Chappuis). It is estimated that about five percent of teen mothers end up putting their child up for adoption. As for the ninety-five percent of those teen moms that choose to raise their child on their own, many of them feel differently about their decisions once they attempt to balance the hardships of raising a child with living the life of a teenager ("Abortion.org"). This can easily lead to added stress levels, an unhealthy environment, and improper care for the child. One and a half percent of teen moms that decide to keep their child do not achieve a college degree before the age of thirty (Chappius) where as on average forty-three percent of adopted children end up in homes where at least one parent already has a college degree (Zill). Looking at these...
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...creators of a television commercial and newspaper article influence us to their opinion by writing the way they do. The topic that I am studying is Teenage Pregnancy. This topic is always going to be in the media for different reasons, and occasionally you hear about a story of a young girl getting pregnant due to un-safe sex. There will always be issues with this subject within society because so many people have different opinions and views of this topic and weather or not it right or wrong. Different texts, stories, documentaries and videos all display teenage pregnancy as wrong and irresponsible because the parents of the baby are either in financial difficultly, socially disadvantaged or are simply too undeveloped to carry and hold a baby. For my two texts I am comparing a newspaper article from the Daily Telegraph written by Clare Masters and a video I found on you-tube originally from the website “hey-babe”. The video was created from the company “hey-babe” and was found and released late in 2009. The article is from December 14 back in 2008. The video and newspaper article are quite very much the same because they both lead to the same conclusion, the viewer ends up thinking about themselves and other people. The footage and article give both views from each party, the doctor and health reporter and the view from a teenager. As well as having one main text, the newspaper article, I have two supporting texts and they are both from doctor’s websites. I am using them to...
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...Even though U.S. government spends over one billion dollars on abstinence programs each year, there are over 800,000 pregnancies and over nine million sexually transmitted infections spread amongst those under the age of 25 (SEICUS). When comparing teen pregnancy rates in countries like France, Germany, and the Netherlands, to the United States, the rate is almost eight times higher. Within the states, Alabama, Arkansas, and Mississippi have the highest rates of sexually transmitted infections. However, in West Virginia, one of the poorest states alongside the previously mentioned three, has one of the lowest teenage pregnancy rates. The reason? They have no abstinence-only education. Having a lack of a strong sexual education system added with the spread of misinformation has created numerous problems compared to other developed countries. “Rights, respect, responsibility,” is the motto for the Advocates for Youth organization that has been the basis for France, Germany, and Netherlands’ philosophy on sexual health. Creating an open, safe, and informative environment has made it easier for people of all ages to feel comfortable dealing with and discussing their sexuality, as well as having sensible and realistic government policies results in overall better results when comparing teens across the Atlantic Ocean. The older generations have a responsibility to give the tools youths need to prepare them the responsibility that comes with sexuality. The younger generations have...
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...religious authority, and which outweighs any right claimed for an embryo or fetus. They say that pregnant women will resort to unsafe illegal abortions if there is no legal option. Opponents, identifying themselves as pro-life, contend that personhood begins at conception, and therefore abortion is the immoral killing of an innocent human being. They say abortion inflicts suffering on the unborn child, and that it is unfair to allow abortion when couples who cannot biologically conceive are waiting to adopt. Variations exist in arguments on both sides of the debate. Some pro-choice proponents believe abortion should only be used as a last resort, while others advocate unrestricted access to abortion services under any circumstance. Pro-life positions range from opposing abortion under any circumstance to accepting it for situations of rape, incest, or when a woman's life is at risk. Some prominent pro-choice organizations include Planned Parenthood, NARAL Pro-Choice America, the National Abortion Federation, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and the National Organization for Women. Although many pro-life positions derive from religious ideology, several mainstream faith groups support the pro-choice movement, such as the United Methodist Church, United Church of Christ, the Episcopal Church,...
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...and whether the laws that we have now bring enough attention to the moral value of abortion. Along with these concepts abortion can also be viewed through the eyes of the utilitarian approach to ethics which focuses on both pleasure and pain and the ability to maximize pleasure over pain. On the other hand, Libertarian considers abortion issue is a necessary thing when we need to protect human freedom. A fundamental utilitarian makes a judgment according to how much general well being and happiness a certain act brings about. According to Jeremy Bentham’s Utility Principle, the morally right thing to do is always whatever brings about the greatest happiness to the greatest number of people. To Bentham, happiness is pleasure. Therefore, under the utilitarian’s point of view, the good side of abortion is to minimize the pain of the child and parents. For example, if the...
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...discussing binge drinking particularly in teenagers and obesity issues in the UK. This is because I believe that the biggest health issues affecting the UK at present are influenced by lifestyle choices. There are many current health issues within the UK that are affecting current health patterns and are likely to affect the future patterns of health. The government has introduced policies and legislations that should tackle these factors affecting health patterns. Binge drinking used to mean drinking a lot of alcohol over consecutive days, however now binge drinking refers to drinking a lot of alcohol over a short period of time whether this is to get drunk or to feel the effects of the alcohol on them. This has only more recently changed as teenagers have been seen to drink considerably more alcohol. Different Medias have shown that teenagers have been seen to binge drink more than the average adult drinks. “Media coverage has been given to news that “British teenagers are the third worst binge drinkers in Europe” Teenagers may have many reasons to drink such as issue as home, to fit in, peer pressure or even to feel a sense of thrill from the alcohol. Drinking alcohol carelessly which is what teenagers currently do, causes many health issues. Binge drinking can cause different illnesses and can stop some process from functioning accordingly; these include heart disease, strokes, liver problems, alcohol poisoning and pregnancy. Liver cirrhosis is one of the most common...
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...IN THE CRIMINOLOGY STUDENT OF NATIONAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN THEIR SCHOOL PERFORMANCE” THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION What is peer pressure? How does peer pressure affect on the school performance of the criminology student? There are such several factors that affect in their school performance. There are some programs on how to control and manage peer pressure. People grow older; people may be faced with some challenge decision. Some don’t have a clear right or wrong answer. Other decisions involve serious moral questions. Making decisions on own is hard enough, but when other people get involved and try to make pressure the people one way or another it can be even harder. People who are teenagers and adolescence, like classmates, are called peers. When they try to influence how the act, to get to do something, it’s called peer pressure. It’s something everyone has to deal with, even adults. Maybe others want to do it, and just don’t have to courage to do it and friends talk them into it. Peer pressure can be broken down into two areas, good peer pressure and bad peer pressure. Peer pressure was always thinking of it in bad terms. In terms of pressuring others into, smoking, do illegal drugs, drink alcohol, have promiscuous sex, engage in criminal and quasi-criminal, behavior, do violence, join gangs, and so on. Thinking of the many good ways that peer pressure can influence and neither do the parents of teens. It is tough to...
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...Is childhood disappearing? There have been many studies and research put into the question ‘is childhood disappearing’ but first lets define what childhood actually is... childhood is considered to be the time in which a person is a child or too young to be considered an adult, this time in most cultures is 0-12 years old. Many sociologists believe that childhood is rapidly disappearing, for example Phillip Aries was a historian who argued that in the middle ages childhood didn’t exist. In the middle ages things were a lot different, children were a lot different and besides from size there was little defining children from adults. There is many sources such as paintings which show children to not only be dressed as adults, but engaging in adult behaviour such as drinking and attending brothels. Aries discovered that children were sent to work, just like adults as soon as they were capable of doing so. Law also made very little distinction between children and adults, with children being allowed to participate in adult activities because they were just seen as ‘mini’ and then sharing the same burden as adults when it came to punishments. At this time Phillip Aries believe that childhood didn’t exist. In 1880 the compulsory education act came into procedure in England and Wales, this created a big turn over in the history of childhood. It became compulsory for children to go to school, meaning they couldn’t work. Before this law came into action children were seen to be...
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...[pic] A Project Report On THE PRE – LAUNCH MARKET SURVEY OF CALCIUM SUPPLEMENTS At Shreya Life Sciences Pvt. Ltd Submitted to: Company Guide: Mr.Ranjeet Kadam General Manager Marketing, Akucare Division Submitted by: Darshana D Ghadi MBA (Bioinformatics) Dr. D.Y.Patil University, Department of Business Management . INDEX |SERIAL NO |CONTENTS |PAGE NUMBERS | |1 | PREFACE |3 | |2 |ACKNOWLEDGEMENT |4 | |3 |DECLARATION |5 | |3 |COMPANY PROFILE |6-10 | |4 |INTRODUCTION |11-14 | |5 |PRODUCT INTRODUCTION |15 ...
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...CARAGA STATE UNIVERSITY AMPAYON BUTUAN CITY MAIN CAMPUS SOCIOLOGY OF DEVIANCE TITLE: TEENAGE PREGNANCY SUBMITTED BY: BAJAO, ANNE GUILIPA LADIELOVE NAQUILA, MARITA SUBMITTED TO: MS. MAGLENTE, ORDEM MARCH 2015 Introduction Teenage pregnancy is widespread in the Philippines, especially amongst the poor. It is a story that may not be too pleasant, but one that is repeated all too often. Teen pregnancy is an obvious rising issue in our society. Teenage pregnancy is seen as the result of early sexual activeness. Teenage pregnancy is defined as a teenage girl, usually within the ages of 13-19, becoming pregnant. It is one of the most difficult issues that teenagers, their family and communities face today. Teenage pregnancy is widespread in the Philippines, especially among the poor. The Philippines is experiencing a crisis of overpopulation which have consequences on the quality of life of the Filipino people. Here in the Philippines, we believe in the saying of our national hero Dr. Jose P. Rizal that “Youth is the hope of our Mother land”. In their hand lies the future generation to follow. But as we see from the situation nowadays, what we’re expecting from the youth is the contrary of the saying. Teenagers are prone to pregnancy. Almost every year there is a rapid increase on the number of pregnant youths. One of the major causes of this problem is that most of the youths nowadays grew up in broken...
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...The Theology of Sexuality Ashlee Mason Liberty University Abstract Sex and Marriage There are many excerpts from the Bible that speak on what sex is supposed to entail. Sex is God’s gift to men and women who come together in the commitment of marriage. * Hebrews 13:4, NIV. "Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure." * I Corinthians 7:3,4, NIV says, "The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband. The wife's body does not belong to her alone but also to her husband. In the same way, the husband's body does not belong to him alone but also to his wife." * I Corinthians 7:5, TLB. "So do not refuse these rights to each other. The only exception to this rule would be the agreement of both husband and wife to refrain from the rights of marriage for a limited time, so that they can give themselves more completely to prayer. Afterwards, they should come together again so that Satan won't be able to tempt them because of their lack of self-control." In the aforementioned passages it is implied that the union of marriage should be honored by all and not just the two that are married. It is also implied that once man and woman are married their body then becomes something that is shared so to deny one’s spouse of their marital duties on a consistent basis that is not agreed upon by both husband and wife leaves them susceptible to temptations outside of their marriage. Forbidden Sex When interpreting...
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