education should be put into the schools of Lubbock. In the film, according to Shelby, “one in fourteen teenage girls getting pregnant” (The Education of Shelby Knox), in Lubbock, Texas, which leads to the key social issues that are portrayed in the film. The issues consist of Lubbock, having the highest teen pregnancy rates, and the highest STD rates. These issues are important because teen pregnancies and STD’s can lead to a sexual health crisis. Another reason why these issues are important is because
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Teenage Pregnancy Indiana vs. Kentucky Michell Davis Ivy Tech Community College April 2016 Abstract Teenage pregnancy, was once considered an epidemic in this country. What is it considered today? This research will not only focus on a whole within the United States, but it will attempt to compare and contrast why two neighboring states; Indiana and Kentucky differ so much when it comes to teenage pregnancy. What are some of the causative factors for the difference in numbers between these
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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.
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remember how you were in high school? Where you mature or where you still oblivious to the hardships of life? Could you have raised a child and continued to finish your education? These are questions that teenage mothers have to answer in a very short time when they are told they are pregnant. Teen pregnancy is a topic that is a concern in many family homes all across America. The biggest issue that teen mothers encounter is the lack of encouragement and the willingness to tell them they are not fit to
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Conclusion Teenage pregnancy still being on rise despite implementation of various approaches to curb the issue. Strategies in reducing teenage pregnancy could be effective provided multiple approaches been use which includes education, skills, abstinence, access to contraception to instill confidence and a sense of future to teenager. Among the approaches used in teen pregnancy prevention programs inclusive of education, skills, abstinence, and access to contraception as well as seek to instill
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boys’ and girls’ intentions to avoid teenage pregnancy: Study protocol§ Maria Lohan a, *, A´ ine Aventin a , Lisa Maguire b , Mike Clarke b , Mark Linden a , Lisa McDaid c a School of Nursing and Midwifery, Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland/Scotland, United Kingdom b Centre for Public Health, Queen’s University Belfast, United Kingdom c MRC/CSO Social & Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom 1. Introduction Teenage pregnancy remains a world-wide public health
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Adrian Llañez Dr. Susan Cardenas HL S 301V 4 May 2014 Preventing Teen Pregnancy Sexuality is a huge, broad topic. When breaking it all down, one thing stands out to me: teen pregnancy. This topic is one of major debate and draws the attention of several governments worldwide to help prevent a problematic trend. While there are several agencies in the United States designed to educate and attempt to lower the teen pregnancy rate, the United States still maintains one of the highest rates in the
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Africa, teenage pregnancy is on rise as a result of how these teenagers make sense of their sexuality. In South African adolescent marks the transition from childhood to adulthood, which in some instances is filled with a period of opportunities, challenges, changes, skills, pressures and physical, cognitive and psychosocial development. Teenagers are faced with an immense amount of peer pressure, physiological and emotional changes, sexual experimentation that increases the risk of pregnancy or sexually
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that are harming young children as young as six years old that are forced to have sex for the first time, the growing rate of teenagers being sexually active and sex trade. In this paper will discussing how teenage sex is effecting our youth in the Black community where we are raising teenage daughters and how a village in Malawi has a ritual where the take their boys and girls to camp to engage in sexual acts.. These sexual acts are being done in more places than we can think of as well according
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Abstinence vs Condom Distributiom Sexual education was introduced to the American public school system in 1913. The superintendent of schools, Ella Flagg Young promoted the teaching of sexual education and implemented sex hygiene lectures in the Chicago, IL School system (Allen 17). The goal then was to reduce social problems such as venereal disease and prostitution by educating the public about sex. Now, in the beginning of the twenty-first century, goals are different, but the conflicting
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