Essays on Teenage Parents

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 ...

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Introduction The increased exposure of media and the rising use of internet in the teenage as compared to the past have resulted in the rise of sexual activities as the material is also readily available in magazines, television programs, newspapers. This has deteriorated the norms and values of the culture and has resulted in rising trend of teenage pregnancies (Hamilton, p.3). In order to control the dramatic rise in teenage pregnancies especially the pre-marital pregnancies, it is imperative that the teenage should be given birth control methods as ...

Teenage pregnancy is one of the most debated and tenacious social issues that exist in the American society for a long time. Teenage pregnancy has triggered over educational system, role of parents and American society since many decades. Teenage pregnancy is very painful for teenagers and it affects every aspect of their life. Teenage pregnancy is hard to digest in the society and people who are related to this issue suffer in many ways. Teenager mothers, fathers, their parents and their relatives suffer a lot in the society. This paper intends to analyze various factors that contribute towards the rise of ...

Literature Review

Teenage pregnancy is one among the oldest issues of the world. Lina Medina of Peru is in records of Guinness Book, who gave birth at the age of 5 years and 7 months in 1939. Similarly, Mary, mother of Jesus gave birth at the age of 3 years old. Henry VII of England mother was 13 years old when Henry was born in 1457. There are various other examples of the girls who gave birth to a baby in their teenage, i.e. of age between 10 to 17 years. All around the world, there are about 15 million women who ...

Sex education in schools may be an uncomfortable subject to talk about, but it is very good and will helpful in the quest to educate young people and tell them what they need to be told. There are several options that are available through which this should be done and for this reason (Weill 63). All of them need to be brought on board because in one way or another they complement each other. Safe sex, abstinence and use of contraceptives should be taught hand in hand s that the youth are given options from which they can choose ...