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More than one million teenagers are becoming pregnant and more than 80% of them are unplanned pregnancies. This number is so high because teenagers are not taking the responsibility of practicing safe sex and mainly because of abortion. In 38 states a minor must have parental consent to go though the abortion. Teens are often looking to abortion but when they do not get consent, they practice more unsafe options that are harmful to both the mother and their baby. Teen pregnancy is at an all time high and as a country we, as a country; need to lower the rate that it is moving.…
Although popular opinion sometimes indicates otherwise, according to a statistical analysis from the US Department of Health and Services (2014), teen pregnancy rates have been steadily declining for the past twenty years. In America, most teenagers are not yet fully independent from their parents, as teenagers in other cultures sometimes are, so they are not ready to become parents. Since this issue has a huge impact on young women and men affected by it, this may account for the disparity between popular opinion and the statistical data on the subject.…
Across the United States, federal and state policy-makers are trying to control what they see as an epidemic in adolescent pregnancy. But is there really an epidemic? And, more importantly, when did the American society start to perceive teenage pregnancy as such? Teenage pregnancy is a major concern in today’s society; there are many ways to prevent teen pregnancy, many people to get advice from, and many decisions that a teen parent must make.…
Teen are the most vulnerable for high risk pregnancy as read in this article; In 2009, a total of 409,840 infants were born to females aged 15–19 years, for a live birth rate of 39.1 per 1,000 females in this age group. Nearly two-thirds of births to females younger than age 18 and more than half of those among females aged 18–19 years are unintended. The U.S. teen birth rate fell by more than one-third from 1991 through 2005, but then increased by 5% over 2 consecutive years. Data for 2008 and 2009 indicate that the long-term downward trend has resumed. Teen pregnancy and birth rates in the United States are substantially higher than those in other Western industrialized…
According to a growing body of social-scientific evidence, children in families disrupted by divorce and out-of-wedlock birth do worse than children in intact families on several measures of well-being. Children in single-parent families are six times as likely to be poor. They are also likely to stay poor longer. Twenty-two percent of children in one-parent families will experience poverty during childhood for seven years or more, as compared with only two percent of children in two-parent families. A 1988 survey by the National Center for Health Statistics found that children in single-parent families are two to three times as likely as children in two-parent families to have emotional and…
In 2012, there were 305,388 babies born to teen mothers (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2014). Although this is, a smaller number than previous years it is still an alarming amount. Becoming a teen mother can lead to many hardships for both, the mother and the infant. According to Weiss (2010), babies born to teen mothers are at risk for premature birth, which could lead to hyper activity, respiratory problems, blindness, deafness, mental retardation and possibly death. Children of teens also, show a trend in repeating, by becoming teen mothers themselves, dropping out of high school, and is at a higher risk for other risky behaviors. Many factors are contributed to the amount of teen mothers, most prevalent is teens with a lower socioeconomic status, and being a…
Research shows that babies born to teen mothers are more likely to be born underweight than babies born to mothers over age 20; 7 percent of pregnant teens receive no prenatal care. Teen pregnancy often creates a cycle of poverty, crime and further teen pregnancy. Research has shown that sons of teen mothers are 2.7 times more likely to go to prison than sons of women that had children after the age of 20, as well as children of teenage mothers are twice as likely to be abused and neglected as children born to women over the age of 20(Redelmeier, Rozin & Kahneman,…
Across America, the percent of families where children have two parents, instead of one has dramatically decreased over the past decade. According to a 2012 December issue of The Washington Times fifteen million U.S. children, or 1 in 3 live without a father and almost five million without a mother. In most cases, not all, single parent households are in lower socioeconomic status. Sadly, less than 50% of custodial parents receive full child support; as a result, these families are more likely to live below the poverty line. Children may engage in delinquent behavior-stealing selling drugs, to compensate for their single parents’ financial short coming’s. In 2010, the National Survey of Families and Households analyzed data of children’s outcomes from families of single parents, biological parent, and step parent- grades, drug use, age, and age of sexual activity. The results revealed children raised in a single parent or divorced parent home progressed worse in comparison to children raised with both parents.…
Teen pregnancy is a growing epidemic in the United States. Teen girls are becoming pregnant at an alarming rate, with a lot of the pregnancies planned. With television shows broadcasting shows such as “16 and Pregnant” and “Teen Mom”, it is giving teenage girls the idea that it is alright to have premarital sex and become pregnant. It is in a way condoning teen pregnancy.…
Preview: Teenage pregnancy and childbearing have considerable, long-term consequences for teenage parents and their children.…
Thesis Statement: Teen pregnancy changes the lives of many teenagers in different ways such as: their education, financial status, social life, and relationships.…
With dramatic growth in nonrmarital births, an increasing number of children are growing up in single-mother families. This study examines the relationships among nonresident fathers' parenting and children's behavioral and cognitive development in low-income, single-mother families. It also considers the personal characteristics ofthe children's single mothers as well as family processes and economic circumstances. Analyses use the first three waves of longitudinal data from a sub.sample of single and noncohabiting mothers in the Fragile Families and C:hild Wellbeing Study. Results suggest that nonresident fathers' parenting is indirectly associated with children's behavior problems and cognitive development.…
Cheour, Marie (April 26, 1011) What are The Long – Term Effects of Teenage Pregnancy? Retrieved from www.livestrong.comarticle/179224-What-are-the-Long-Term-Effects-of-…
Unplanned teenage pregnancies can lead to higher high school dropout rates, higher rates of single parenthood, and lowering scores in math and reading.…
Teenage pregnancy is a common social problem in both Western and Eastern cultures. In United States, the statistics show that more than 3,000 teens get pregnant every day and the half them give births (McCoullough & Scherman(1991), cited in Yucel, 2003). Although teenage pregnancy may be considered as a positive experience, studies show that teenage pregnancy is associated with psychological, social and physical problems. The pregnancy rates reveal that the number of unintended pregnancy is very high. Some of the complications are that teenage mothers are more likely to expose postnatal depression, poor quality of life such as economic difficulties, unfinished education and poor housing (Mayson, 2011). The babies from the teen mothers are at high risk of mortality and low birth rate (Mayson, 2011).…