pregnant?’ This is a statistic that was released by Plan parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky in 2015 (Lieber, 2015). How can this be happening? What must we as parents, friends, educators and professional staff of this society do to educate our teens on becoming moms and dads, so early in their lives? Are these children unaware of the social impact that teenage pregnancy will have on their lives, their families, let alone the innocent child that they will soon bring into this world? Indiana
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What Are The Causes of Unwanted Pregnancy In Teens? Imagine someone telling you that you don't matter and you don't have the right to exist, well 1 out of 4 babies conceived are aborted in the United States. Teenage Pregnancy has become an epidemic in which 1 million pregnancies are reported each year and 35% have an abortion. It troubled me to see these numbers and I began to inquiry what are the causes of Unwanted Pregnancy? According to National Abortion Federation (www.prochoice.org) many of
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unbiased sex education is a basic human right that the youth is entitled to have. Proper sex education should include information on contraception, unwanted pregnancy and STDs. Giving proper sex education on those issues will not only help preserve the youth to be as healthy as possible but it can make for better decision making in the future. One type of sexual education that is particularly well-known and mostly used in the south is abstinence-only sex education. Abstinence-only sex education
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Pre-Marital Sex The seminar we had last March 15 is a must see to all teenagers. Nowadays most teens indulge in pre-marital sex. Some do it out of curiosity, some urge by sex drive at an early age and some triggered by peer pressure. It’s so sad to know that as a catholic country in which we value the sacredness of marriage, a growing number of teens are getting pregnant every year. It’s very alarming because the youth is the hope of our fatherland! Government says sex education is the
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fact of life with the scenario of this teen girl and her 17 year old boyfriend is even though this is nothing new for most of us; there is something you can do. Between the ages of 12-16, puberty is bound to hit at some point, the urges in those hormones will give the teen the extra push to explore and cross boundaries they may not would have crossed without the hormones. The downside teens don’t seem to grasp is that there is a huge difference between love and sex, but they don’t comprehend what that
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Nowadays, most people’s experience with sexual education in school is sitting in a classroom with about 20 other students, while your gym teacher awkwardly tells you not to have sex before you’re married. The irony is about maybe half of those students have already had sex before and your gym teacher is only teaching you this because the school gets more funding if he does. This key flaw is letting faith-based organizations have a hand in teaching you one of your basic human rights of youth. Abstinence-only
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Media Influence on Teen Pregnancy Jessica Vickroy Devry University Media Influence on Teen Pregnancy “I wasn’t aware of the consequences of having sex and I didn’t know the symptoms of pregnancy. I had no idea I was pregnant for quite a while” (Currie, 2011). Stacey Currie was only fifteen years old when she got pregnant. Over recent years, the rate of teen pregnancies has declined in the United States but there are still around 850,000 teenagers who get pregnant each year. This yearly
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Teen Pregnancy Thesis Statement: Teen pregnancy can be made by a mistake and I believe every teen that ends up pregnant should not be talked bad about and deserves another chance. I also believe that no one should judge a teen that has a child because they deserve to enjoy their blessing mistake or not. (a) This is a picture of a teenage girl that ended up taking a pregnancy test and finds out that she is pregnant.When some teens get their results they're either happy or sad and ends up
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Pre-Marital Sex: Implementation Process Pre-marital sex has been a pressing public policy issue for decades. In the United States, numerous programs have been implemented to deal with the effects that pre-marital sex has had on the Nation’s economy and various other areas. In an essay prior to this paper, we looked at pre-marital sex from a public policy standpoint by judging the issue from five contexts: political, economic, social, historical, and ethical. In this essay, we will continue to examine
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adverse consequences for the parents, the child, and society. Pregnant teens are less likely to complete high school and attend college than teenagers who avoid pregnancy. Many teenage parents live below the poverty level and rely on welfare. The children of teenage parents receive inadequate medical care, have more problems in school, and spend more time in prison than children of adult parents. The National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy (NCPTP) claims that teenage childbearing costs society about
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