teen pregnancy.?

Question

i have to write about why teen prgenancy is an important problem throughout the whole world, but i'm having hard time outlining it. please help?

Answer 1

teen pregnancy is a global problem, because it is happening everywhere. Find the statistics and infer from it.

Answer 2

Teen pregnancy has become a problem in this world today. I happen to fall into that category. I was 16 when I found out I was pregnant. I cryed alot, and didn't know what to do and was scared. I didn't know how to take care of a baby. It takes away someones childhood, but then that is the parents choice of giving it up or not. Many teens I personally know, THINK they are ready, but they are not. Then again, no one is really ever ready for a baby. You always learn as you go whether you are 16 or 35. I believe that the reason most teens keep having babies after the first one, is because they don't take the responsibility of that child, the grandparents are. If teens today knew how much hard work, dedication, and love they have to give a child. Waking up every few hours in the middle of the night, never going out and having fun, working to take care of the baby, going to school, getting a job. It gets exhausting doing everything for a little baby, but that baby depends on you. A baby can't find it's own food, or change it's own diapers, or talk, or do anything. A baby is completely dependant on everything from the parent. Babies are NOT baby dolls, which alot of teens, say I know they aren't, but then again, they think it's going to be easy sailing, but it is one of the toughest things I have ever come through and dealt with. It gets really tough. I'm currently 21 with a 4 and 2 year old. I get no child support, the father is gone and never comes around, I get no help from my family. It just feels like it's me against the world with two little boys to care for. It gets really stressful. And it still hasn't got any easier yet.

Answer 3

Taking on the issue from a global perspective is quite difficult because different nations have very different cultures. For example, here in the US we frown upon teen pregnancy because teen's typically do not have the resources to care for themselves let alone any children they may have. Because of this they usually become dependent upon the state or other adults. However, in India and some countries in Africa, teens who give birth are often not socially frowned upon because they have been married at such a young age that having a child that young is inevitable for many of them.

Teen pregnancy is mainly a big problem because like I said before they often don't have the resources available to care for themselves. This makes them dependent upon other people. Further, because teenagers' bodies are not fully developed, pregnancy is a major health risk to them and to any children they may have. Children of teen parents are more likely to be underweight at birth and this puts them in danger of a multitude of health problems when they are born. Children of teen parents are also more likely to have problems in school and become teen parents themselves. Thus the cycle of poverty continues more or less abaited.

A good thing to do would be to compare industrialized nations with other industrialized nations - the US vs Great Britain or The Netherlands, for example. And then compare an underdeveloped nation with another underdeveloped nation. This will give snapshots of a lot of different countries and what they are doing to prevent or discourage teen pregnancy in their areas.

Best of luck!

Answer 4

Include how teenagers are not provided with effective sex education, how they're often taught that contraceptives (condoms and hormonal birth control) don't work (or even worse, contraceptives are never mentioned), sexual myths (like you can't get pregnant the first time/ anal sex doesn't make you lose your virginity so you can't catch STDs/oral sex doesn't count, etc), the dangers of pregnancy and labor on teenage bodies, how it is virtually impossible to complete school and obtain a well-paying job while raising a child ( and how this creates a "tradition" of poverty), how abstinence-only sex education actually leads to more teenage pregnancies, how it was "acceptable" for young people to have sex at this age up until the 20th century, how abortion is looked down upon (yet has been available and common since the dawn of time) plus how pregnant teens are so strongly encouraged to continue the pregnancy yet are branded as "sluts" and "whores" for doing the "right" thing.

Answer 5

It's a problem to the kids who don't know what they're getting into or aren't ready for the responsibility, but it's not always a problem like everyone thinks it is. I'm 17 and i just had my first child. I love her more than anything. I do an online school, so I can finish that perfectly, the father and I are happy and well supported because he works, and I am perfectly fine with not being able to go out partying or whatever. I love having a kid this young.

Answer 6

Recently studied this on my degree.
In summary (in the U.K.) most people learn about sex from their friends. Countries such as Holland who have a very open approach to discussing sex and incorporate it into their school curriculam as a whole have the lowest teenage pregnancy rates. A strong contributory factor is the conflicting messages given to young girls: they are nothing if unless they have a boyfriend but having sex is bad. It has also been found that inadequate and inaccessible education and medical facilities contribute towards the difficulty teenagers feel asking for help.




Below is a comprehensive review of all teenage pregnancy research from the British government

Answer 7

i had my son when i was 16 years old. now i am 23 and have three children that i wouldnt trade for the world. my husband and i own a house. if it werent for me having my son when i did i probably would have died from an overdose. im not saying that teen pregnancies are good but i do think that a lot of the girls that have children do turn their lives around for the better when they do have children. but certainly not all of them i have seen some terrible teen parents too. although if you look at it logically it is not the age of the parent that makes them terrible parents. i think that teen pregnancy is a problem just from the sheer numbers of it. i think that a lot of the moms have to sacrifice their own lives for their children which is hard in a way because you dont have the oppurtunities that your friends without children have like college and such. but it gives you all that much more to give to your kids

Answer 8

Teen pregnancy is a very big issue, for soo many reasons..such as children being born into poverty becauase a mother cannot raise them right, more goverment funding, how uinfair it is for the baby, that it can lead to abortian, and is very hard on the teen girl to continue schoool...just a few thoughts..

Answer 9

i wrote this paper about this same problem and i wrote aboutt tha statistics, and the rise of sexual activity in today's youth and how its leading to an increase in poverty and most of them are on welfare here is my work cited lists “Teen Pregnancy.” Issues & Controversies on File. 1 Sept. 2000. Issues & Controversies @ FACTS.com. Facts On File News Services. 19 Feb. 2007

Graham, Hilary, and Elizabeth McDermott. "Qualitative Research and the Evidence Base of Policy: Insights from Studies of Teenage Mothers in the UK." Journal of Social Policy 35.1 (2006): 21-37. Academic Search Premier. 27 February 2007. http://search.ebscohost.com.

Hannum, Kristen. “Teen Birth in America.” The Reporter. Summer 2006. Vol. 38. pg 6-8. SIRSresearcher. UC Library, Cincinnati, OH. 26. Feb 2007.

"Abstinence-Only Sex Education Cannot Reduce Teenage Pregnancy" by National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League. Teenage Pregnancy. Mary E. Williams, Ed. Opposing Viewpoints® Series. Greenhaven Press, 2003. From "The Need for Comprehensive Sexuality Education," by National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League, http://naral.org, February 24, 1999. Copyright © 1999 by National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League. Reprinted with permission.
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center. Thomson Gale. 27 February 2007

Answer 10

well since I was a pregnant teen I can help alot. I think there should be more abstinece programs in schools to prevent teen pregnancy. I also think they should really educate about babies as well. I mean some teens think it would be fun to have a baby untill the see what really happens. Not that I dont love my children but it is Extremely hard at a young age . many of the teens end up on welfare i had medicaid and wic my self to help with the medical and after. i also think there should be stricter laws on child support because i dont receice any

Answer 11

You need to start out with the statistics of teen sex and the percentage of those who do not use birth control in various parts of the world. Then you need to show the correlation and the number of teens who become pregnant and have children before they reach adulthood. Lastly you can write on solutions on this problem and how our society and countries can reduce or solve this issue.