The Causes Of Teen Pregnancy

Teen pregnancy is an issue in United States, it is one issue that should wait until teens are married and know what they are doing with their lives. This issue came about in the early in the 1950’s – 1960’s. Teen pregnancy is a teenage girl between the ages 13-19 (girls who haven’t reached adulthood) having unwanted or wanted babies. Janet Bode once stated in her book, “Emotions run everywhere, scared, sad, disappointment and preparation for what is about to happen” (Bode 51). If we do not act now, teen pregnancy will be out the roof. Teen pregnancy needs a stop put to it no matter what, teens are still children themselves and they are still learning how to take care of themselves:

As us females were young we all seem to become mothers, by playing with dolls, and playing house with others our age. It may be easy for us to say that as children we thought they needed some assistance, but in reality that was only our imagination. As little kids did we really think about what it would be like to really have a baby? We were children, but see the thing here is that teens are still children who are having other children. 16 year olds do not just wake up thinking they want to have a baby, most of the time it just happens without being planned. Teens often do not think about what life would be like as a parent which is easy to happen and we should be informed on the reasons why and what it really is like.

n the past young ladies were shunned if they became pregnant, were sent into hiding, and when they gave birth the baby would be sent away, now some girls are put on T.V. because of teen pregnancy. “In 2014, a total of 249, 078 babies were born to women aged 15-19 years, for a birth rate of 24.2 per 1,000 women in this age group” (About Teen para. 1). Pregnant teens are often put into stereotypes and are put down. Throughout their lives they are told that their life is ruined so often that she (or he if they impregnated a girl) start to actually believe it and they end up not living up to their full potential.

People in my family have experienced teen pregnancy before and luckily they, and the child, ended up being okay. My aunt was pregnant as a teen with two of my cousins, and she did not end up finishing high school. My dad ended up taking better care of my cousins then my aunt did. I chose this topic because I believe this is a very important topic, and that this problem needs to be minimized. Teen pregnancy affects the community around me because it could potentially happen to anyone if the necessary precautions are not acted upon. I do not want any girl, at my school or any other school, to be looked down on or degraded just because she messed up, and that little mess up cost her more than ever imaginable. Overall, I would like to provide an answer to this problem. If all sexually active teenagers took the necessary precautions and they were more aware of the consequences than the rate of teen pregnancies will decrease in years to come. Schools should provide more education on SexED and on the precautions they should be taking when it comes to sexual activity, and parents should not be afraid to talk to their children regarding their sexual relationships. Nonetheless, it is the teen’s responsibility to take action and prevent from teen pregnancy to happen to

Teen pregnancy has decreased a total of 8 percent. “ in 2015 a total of 229,715 babies were born to women 15-19”(Reproductive Health:Teen Pregnancy). According to Reproductive Health:Teen Pregnancy the birth of babies dropped from 41 babies to 21 babies, births dropped per 1,000 females aged 15-19 years. Hispanic teens have more than twice the percent of teen pregnancy than white teens, black teens have a twice the percent than all the other races besides hispanic teens

Unintended pregnancy among adolescents represent an important health challenge that requires additional teaching. An unintended pregnancy is considered to be a pregnancy that is unwanted or mistimed for any reason. Among the adolescent populations, more than 4 out of 5 pregnancies were reported as unintended (Finer, 2010). The high percentage of unintended pregnancies in adolescent females involve improper maintenance or lack of education. Approximately half of unintended pregnancies are due to contraceptive failure, largely owing to inconsistent or incorrect use (Winner, Peipert, Zhao, Buckel, & Madden, 2012). An adolescent mother who conceives an unintended pregnancy can cause negative effects including performing poorly in school, resulting in poverty, and having a decreased success in the future (Postlethwaite, Armstrong, Hung, & Shaber 2010). The best way to prevent these negative effects on an adolescents future is to teach them about correct contraception use. Contraception enables people to control their fertility according to their desires and circumstances (Luke, Herbert, Loxton, & Weisberg, 2011). This will help the teens build the specific skills they need to protect themselves and potentially reduce the rate of unintended pregnancies in adolescents.

While many people are inclined to express indifference regarding this concept, teen pregnancy is one of the most controversial topics in the contemporary society. This experience can be devastating for some individuals, as the fact that they are raw makes it difficult for them to effectively deal with the problem. Society becomes more stressing and most teens who become pregnant come to express feelings related to shame and fear. The fact that these individuals are hesitant about letting their parents know that they are pregnant contributes to their problems and finding help sometimes becomes an impossible mission. Lack of life experience materializes into a more severe type of stress, endangering both the mother and the child.

I suppose no one ever really expects things to happen to them until they actually happen. At least, that’s how I viewed things until I got pregnant with my first and only child at fifteen years old. It’s almost exactly the way they portray it in Hollywood movies and television shows and books. Although, unlike those books and shows, I never lost any friends from this experience. I will say that people are much more understanding nowadays. Still, no one is ever really ready to be a mom, especially at fifteen.

For generations, teen pregnancy has been a prevalent issue, with women becoming mothers as early as aged fifteen to nineteen. This issue arose from undereducation about safe sex practices. Teen pregnancy was more accepted in earlier years due to the shorter human life span at the time, but as time passed and people started living longer, it became a practice for people with lower socioeconomic standing. Teenage pregnancy was seen as a woman doing her duty by bringing a child into the world. This belief is still held by many cultures and in many places like sub-Saharan Africa and parts of south-central and eastern Asia today. The focus of my study is how programs that teach young adults about the consequences of

Teenage pregnancy is a huge problem in the United States, but the rates are not at an all-time high. The pregnancy rates of teens have actually gone down in the past few years, but it still is a big problem here in the United States. The United States has the highest rate of teenage pregnancy, Russia has the second highest. Teenage pregnancy is a social and economic problem; it is not good for our country. This essay, will discuss who is at a high risk, the effects, and the prevention of teen pregnancy.

Where most students are doing homework, or on their gaming console, around that time freshman Deajanai Evans is around the house taking care of her 9 month son, Kayden. Deajanai Evans is a regular freshman at a regular high school in Oxford,Mississippi but there is one thing that sets her apart from the majority of the student body she is a mother. 3 in 10 teen American girls will get pregnant at least once before age 20. That's nearly 750,000 teen pregnancies every year. Parenthood is the leading reason that teen girls drop out of school. More than 50% of teen mothers never graduate from high school. “I felt great about having my baby because that kept me away from suicidal thoughts and i really didn't care how my family felt because they was not going to be the ones helping me”.Teenage girls are at increased risk of suicide if they are pregnant, a leading psychiatrist has warned. Veronica O'Keane, a consultant at Tallaght Hospital, argued that new laws on abortion were needed to save the lives of women believed to be a suicide risk. She said while it was rare for a woman to take her own life during pregnancy, suicide after birth is the leading cause of maternal death overall. "Adolescents are at a huge increased risk of committing suicide if they are pregnant. It's a leading cause of death in pregnancy and it's also rare," Prof O'Keane said. “to be honest the way school going right now its stressful but yea i care enough about it to want to finish and graduate.”Teenage

Teenage pregnancy is defined as an unintended pregnancy during adolescence (Langham 2015). It is one of the many ways a tenagers’ course of life can greatly change. Although the increased teaching about contraception has reduced the number of adolescent pregnancies, the rate is still substantially higher. Approximately 750,000 of 15- to 19-year-olds become pregnant each year, according to The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, though many teenagers do not believe that they will get pregnant if they engage in sexual activity (Langham 2015). These facts cause one to wonder why so many young girls become pregnant at an age when they apparently should not be.

Three out of ten adolescent young ladies will end up getting pregnant before the age of twenty. That is rounded to about seven hundred and fifty thousand high school pregnancies consistently occurring. Over half of the teenage mothers to be, never finish secondary school. Planned Parenthood determined that eighty two percent of teenage pregnancies are not thought out nor planned for. Contrasted with the adolescent birth rates in other created nations, America's are the most elevated: twice as high as Australia's and Canada's, three times as high as France's, three and a half circumstances as high as Germany's, six times as high as the Netherlands', and seven times as high as Japan's.

Teen pregnancy is not a subject to take lightly. Being in high school, students are held to high standards. They are in fact young adults who are trying to build their success to go onto the next step in life, but just one mistake can ruin everything. Having unprotected sex is the leading cause to teenagers getting pregnant. Oral contraceptives are recommended if girls are sexually active, but being on birth control does not give them one-hundred percent accuracy of not becoming pregnant.

Teenage pregnancy is normally identified as a deprived life choice, for example, tasks of teenage parenting have long-term impact on the mental health of the mother and children (Statistics New Zealand, 2003). It is important to identify the socioeconomic factors of teenage pregnancy to lower the chances of mental health problems in young mothers. In this paper the aim is to analyse the main socioeconomic factors of teenage pregnancy and discuss how it affects the mental health of an adolescent mother in New Zealand. This essay will commence by identifying how a lack of education is considered as a socioeconomic factor associated with teenage pregnancy, followed by the second theme which will consist of economic circumstances such as, parental unemployment and welfare dependency. Lastly, this essay will discuss how deficiency of support from family and friends leads to unstable relationships, which has a huge impact on a teenage mother’s mental health.