This week’s assignment had me take a closer look on how environment truly influences teen pregnancy rates in my community. Teens living in poverty have a greater likelihood of becoming pregnant than teens living in affluent communities. What causes this disparity? Social and environmental factors are in large part responsible for the disparity. The adults in lower- income families are often less educated, have a criminal history, hold low-income jobs, or are unemployed. Lower income communities are
La’ Jayda M. Wheeler Mrs. Maggert English III 6 December 2016 Teen Birth Control Without Parent’s Consent One of today’s biggest debates sweeping the nation is about sexually active teens and if teenagers should be allowed to get birth control with parental consent?” Age groups ranging between 12 and 25 year old's, pregnancy rate has dropped. Within the past few years, teen pregnancy has decreased in the United States due to different form of contraception and the use of protection. Even though
Mumps virus is a single stranded RNA virus that belongs to the Paramyxoviridae family. Mumps is characterized by the bilateral or unilateral swelling of the parotid gland. This reemerging disease dates back to the 5th century B.C. and prior to vaccination, mumps was an epidemic disease with a cycle of 4-5 years. Despite MMR vaccinations, a sudden reemergence of cases was observed in 2005 in the United Kingdom. Most of the patients were between the ages of 19-23 and majority only been vaccinated
In the article, “Some Quebec schools to start a ‘no exemptions’ sex ed pilot project” by ____, they are making sex ed a mandatory requirement to learn in schools from kindergarten to the end of high school. I agree that sex ed should be a mandatory requirement for students to learn all through their school career. It is important to start early and introduce the basics around sex, helping students learn about their bodies will help them learn to understand and take care of their body, and having
Contamination from poliomyelitis is spread through contact with somebody who as of now has the ailment or as an aftereffect of poor sanitation where human waste items taint others. The mouth is the typical pathway of the infection, which then enters the blood framework. Loss of motion generally to the arms and legs happens from sores to the focal sensory system. These sores happen when the polio infections start to attack the focal sensory system. Clinical responses to the polio infections can
The discussion of why El Paso. Texas has one of the highest teenage pregnancy is a challenging one. Is teenage pregnancy cause by lack of sex education, abstinence teaching or birth control accessibility. I believe that the answer to teenage pregnancy is a truly difficult subject to tackle, due to the many missing variables. Nevertheless, I think that the reason why El Paso, Texas has a high teenage pregnancy because of the disagreement between the education system and parent’s belief’s on when to
Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) continue to compromise the health of thousands of Americans daily, predominantly adolescents. According to the World Health Organization (2013), approximately one million Americans acquire an STD every day. Although the percentage of adolescents who have had sexual intercourse has declined since the 1990’s, those who have had sex are less likely to use any form of contraception, thus placing them at greater risk of acquiring an STD (Department of Health and Human
In the United States, many children under the age of 18 have taken marital vows. A lot of whom are young girls to older men with the approval of a judge and consenting parent. Why you may ask? The minimum age requirement to get married in most states is 18, but there are couple exception which allow for a child under the age of 18 to get married. The first exception is with parental approval most states allow children 16 or 17 to be married if their parents sign the marriage certificate. Another
In this generation, including the generation behind ours, the preteens and teenagers become more sexually active than the previous generations. So, to prevent teenagers from becoming pregnant in high school, or at a young age, I believe when girls hit the age of 15, they should be able to choose whether or not to get birth control. Let’s face it, you can teach your daughter about sex, STDs, pregnancy, and love, trying to prevent it from happening, but in the end they are going to do whatever they
According to the Forum of Child and Family Statistics, “disorders related to preterm birth and low birthweight are the second leading cause of infant death in the United States” (Forum on Child and Family Statistics, 2015). Infants born weighing less than 5.8 oz. (2, 5000 grams) are considered low birth weight (LWB) and infants born with less than 37 weeks are considered preterm. The risk of early death, long term disabilities and chronic health conditions are higher in both, preterm and LWB infants