Activities Chapter 11 Adolescence

Teen Pregnancy

Compare and contrast your research findings with what actually occurs at school.

(a)	Despite the recent decrease in teen pregnancy rates, 1 out of 3 teenage girls get pregnant at least once before they are the age of 20. Resulting in more then 820,00 teen pregnancies in a year. At this level the United States has the highest rate of teen pregnancies in the fully industrials world.

(b)	Teen pregnancies are closely linked to poverty and single parenthood. A 1990 study showed that almost 1/2 of all teenage mothers and over three-quarters of unmarked teen mothers began receiving welfare within five years to the birth of their first child. 

(c)	A new crop of kids becomes a teenager every year, this means that prevention efforts must be constantly renewed and revised. And between 1995 and 2010 the number of girls aged 15-19 is projected to increase by 2.2 million. educating the students and teenagers about the effects of sex, and having a child at a young age, by showing types of birth control such as the condom, the pill and having no sex at all, and also incorporating sex education into the school program to ensure that all the teenagers get a hold on what they get themselves into and their responsibilities. 

Facts:
-Future prospects for teenagers decline ssignificantly if they have a baby
-There is serious health risks for adolesscences that have babies
-Teen pregnancies is closely linked to pooverty and single parenthood
-Teen pregnancies is bad for the child-Children born to teen mothers suffers frrom higher rates of low birth weights and related health problems.
-Children to teens often have insufficiennt health care,
-Children of teen mothers often receive iinadequate parenting
-Children with adolescent parents often ffails victim to abuse and neglect
-Children to teenagers often suffer from  poor school performance