rates have decreased, abortion continues to cause controversy in every aspect. Pro-life people believe that abortion should be absolutely illegal and under no circumstances should it change, while pro-choice people believe that the mother will always have the option of how she chooses to deal with her pregnancy. Under circumstances such as rape, child-birth complications or any diagnosed birth defects the mother should have the option of aborting the pregnancy. Female victims of rape should have…
National Trends: According to Virginia.gov, 1teen pregnancy is a critical public health issue that affects the health, education, social and economic future of mother and child; social issues include welfare dependency, out-of-wedlock births and workforce development. Data shows that 1Virginia (Southwest) (44.7) region had the highest teen pregnancy rates, while the Northern (18.0) region had the lowest. Overall, 1there were 7,335 reported teen pregnancies in Virginia in 2013 or an average of…
Abstinence-Only Education and Teen Pregnancy Rates: Why We Need Comprehensive Sex Education in the U.S. PLoS ONE, 6(10). Principle Findings In this journal article, the author’s main goal is to analyze the effectiveness of abstinence-only education versus comprehensive sex education. The US ranks number one among developed nations in teen pregnancy and the rate of sexually transmitted diseases despite the US having similar cultural and socioeconomic patterns in teen pregnancy rates as other…
Teen pregnancy is pretty difficult because being a teenager, preparing for your doctor appointments, and planning financially is already a lot. Teen pregnancy is really famous now days. There are young moms all over the world. Half of American teenegrs are having sex. Which I can tell you because Ashley is one teen mom out of 1,000 teen moms. Teens have been having sex at really young ages, which that increase there would be more people with STDs and more teen pregnancy. Every single day there…
comes along with birth control is an increase in risks for blood clots. The reason that birth control may cause blood clots is because they release different hormones, which will affects every woman 's body in a different way. There are different forms of birth control that are available to teens as of now, with a prescription, and are currently being used to decrease unplanned pregnancies. The most common form used is the Combination Pill, otherwise known as “the pill”. This pill keeps the…
majority of teens. They just want to feel apart of something but their cities…
Teenage pregnancy rates have been on the rise for years now. Two generations ago a teen getting pregnant might have been the scandal of the season but now it is common to have at least one set of teenage parents in a high school. So, what initiated this trend? Media, abortions, and the lack of sex education have led to an increase in teenage pregnancies. Most notable is the effect of media on adolescence minds. Media exposes children to sex at a young age through pop culture, TV shows,…
known as addiction. As teens get older they start to experience Sex addiction, Drug addiction, Technology addiction, and Body Dysmorphic Disorder. Each addiction can cause a teen to go through different behaviors and can cause different effects on the teenage body. The roughest addiction that teens go through is sex addiction, so, let’s start with that. Sex addictions in teenagers are a hard thing to stop due to treatments and support from family and friends. Back then, teens were limited to…
States isn’t doing enough to Prevent Teen Pregnancy Jennifer Swims goes to school at 7:15 a.m. comes home at 2:35 p.m. but instead of starting homework like most seventeen years old, she comes home and cares for her child. Then at 4:00pm, she starts work at McDonald’s not leaving until 12:35 a.m. Upon returning home, she plays with her son until 1:30am. Swims is lucky enough that she receives support from her family which allows her to attend to school but not all teen mothers are so fortunate…
the idea of protecting yourself during sex. Abstinence-only education focuses on the idea of abstinence, and waiting until marriage to have sex. Teens need to be taught because of the high teen pregnancy and Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) rates. Comprehensive sex education is more effective than abstinence-only education. In the U.S. the teen pregnancy and STD rates need to be reduced. They are a big problem in the youth and they need to be educated. If adolescents are taught more about sex…