Essays on Teen Pregnancy

Teen Pregnancy and Sexually Transmitted Disease Prevention

Teen Pregnancy and Sexually Transmitted Disease Prevention The proposed public health leadership theory was developed to identify public health interventions that can address risky sexual behavior in teenagers, which is associated with teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease (STD) prevalence in teenagers. The risk factors contributing to risky sexual behaviors in the teenage population and the interventions public health leaders can use to address those factors are presented in Figure 1. Figure 1. Public health leadership theory on interventions for addressing risk factors associated with risky sexual behaviors in teenagers. Teen sex behaviors can be influenced by their socioeconomic ...

Sociology

Teen pregnancy is the core context of the issue being featured in MTV’s shows 16 and pregnant, which the study by Kearny and Levine (2015) suggests that the show was able to significantly reduce the number of teen pregnancy. In a study conducted by Aubrey et al. (2014), examining the impact of the TV show revealed that instead of preventing teenage pregnancy, the show actually perpetuates an opposing effect. In addition, attitudes and perspectives towards teenage pregnancy as the MTV show is intending to expose vary among the tested subjects and one of the reasons stated in the ...

Social issues cut across a large spectrum of our daily lives, cutting across from human to local area development. In the exploration of considering topics to research on, the researcher looked at the topics which are most relevant to this generations and future generations and settled on these three areas: these are potential topics that were looked into

Child Abuse

Teenage Pregnancy HIV Child abuse The first topic was Child abuse which is a term used to refer to mistreatment and acts of affliction on children. These are acts conducted by caregivers, guardians and parents of the child that often results ...

Social issues cut across a large spectrum of our daily lives, cutting across from human to local area development. In my exploration of considering topics to research on, looked at the topics which are most relevant to this generations and future generations. Settled on these three areas: this is potential topics looking into

Child Abuse

Teenage Pregnancy HIV Child abuse The first topic was Child abuse is a term used to refer to mistreatment and acts of affliction on children. These are acts conducted by caregivers, guardians and parents of the child that often results to real problems and harm to ...

Adolescent pregnancy is one family planning issue that is being addressed by initiatives under the Healthy People 2020. Adolescent or teen pregnancy is defined as pregnancy in females aged 19 years or younger (UMMC, 2011). Baseline figures show that in 2005, there were 40.2 pregnancies for every 1,000 girls between 15 and 17 years old and 116.2 pregnancies for every 1,000 girls between 18 and 19 years old (ODPHP, 2016). This issue needs to be addressed because of the physical, social, and economic consequences to young girls, their children, their families, and society. Teens have a higher ...

Gender separation in schools has been a controversy for decades in the United States and many other countries. People argue whether public schools should give a choice to parents to have single sex or mixed sex education. Single sex education has existed all around the United States and is common internationally. Public schools in the US are mostly coeducational; however, single sex schools occurred after the legislation of single sex schooling. Public single sex schools number has increased dramatically due to several causes. This paper views single sex education and mixed sex schools proponents, as well as opponents claims, ...

Abstract

Teenage pregnancy is a major problem affecting teenagers around globe. This is serious problem since it forces young girls and boys to drop out of school. Chances of these teenagers getting back to school after giving birth or later in life are minute. Thus, the dreams of these teen advancing to college and securing white collar jobs with sustainable income are shuttered. As such these girls and boys are forced to become young mothers and fathers at tender age while doing two to three jobs to have enough income to take care of the baby. Additionally, this problem does ...

In the recent years, the incidence of pregnancies at adolescents has been on the rise at alarming rates in the United States. Teenage pregnancies have caused adverse effects to the young mothers, the infants born to the young mother’s ant the whole society (Kappeler & Shaw, 2015, p. 196). It is estimated that out of 1000 adolescent girls, 96 of them who are aged between fifteen to nineteen years become pregnant every year. About 85% of these teen pregnancies are unplanned, and approximately 40% of them end up procuring abortion as because they do not have the support and ...

Introduction

Child abuse Child abuse is a term used to refer to mistreatment and acts of affliction on children. These are acts conducted by caregivers, guardians and parents of the child that often results to real problems and harm to a child. These acts range from physical abuse like bartering and bullying, sexual abuse that includes rape and sexual advances, psychological torture and in other instances negligence and lack of support. These acts of abuse occur in homes, schools and communities that the child resides and can be conducted by any person ranging from peers, teachers, and other society members. ...

One of the major concerns in the field of healthcare in the developed United States is Teen Pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases (STD’s). Teenagers are opting pregnancy even before they hit puberty, which is an alarming situation. Teen Pregnancy has posed a huge challenge to the nation and the education provided to the teenagers is being blamed. Apart from the education provided in schools and colleges, the relationship between the teen and the parents must also be considered in providing proper education related to teen pregnancy and STD. There are many states in U.S. where the teen pregnancy ...

Children having children

The article ‘Children having children’ by Claudia Wallis aims at drawing society’s attention to the problem of teen pregnancy. Throughout the twentieth and twenty- first centuries, raising of this issue may seem corny. However, people have realized the negative effects of being an under-age parent and started reacting to the problem not a long time ago. Surely enough all the consequences are caused by certain reasons. Accordingly, the author is aimed to find out and investigate both – the reasons and the consequences of teenage pregnancy. One can find a lot of causes mentioned in the article, though a low ...