Abstinence only versus Sex education in preventing teen pregnancy Anamika Laddha Chamberlain University Abstinence only versus Sex education in preventing teen pregnancy Introduction United States has the highest level of teenage pregnancy amongst the industrialized nations – nine times as high as Netherlands or Japan, twice as high as England and Wales or Canada. Over eight hundred thousand teenage girls get pregnant each year, most unintentionally (The Alan Guttmacher Institue, 2000). Four
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IMPACTS OF GOVERNMENT STRATEGIES IN TACKLING TEENAGE PREGNANCY IN ENGLAND Name of student Class name Instructor’s name Name of school Date ABSTRACT Teenage pregnancy is one of the major problems affecting the United Kingdom’s not only the health sector but also all other sectors. The problem has slowly been increasing and through its associated negative impacts has affected the economic status of the country due to increased number of school drop-outs. Accessibility
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Reducing Teenage Pregnancies and STDs through Education An Investigation into the increasing number of teenage pregnancies and STDs in the United States Christene M. Staley Western Governor’s University WGU Student ID# 000259544 Why do we need sexual education? In recent years there has been a large debate on how to reduce the number of teenage pregnancies and STDs in the United States. Although many agree that some form of sexual education is needed there are
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TEENAGE PREGNANCY Introduction One should start by saying that teenage pregnancy is a complex and controversial social issue in the USA of teenage females getting pregnant. In the underdeveloped countries the practice of having teenage pregnancies is not unique but rather is usual since most women are expected to be married and have children before they turn 20. The problem for the society with teenage pregnancies is that teenagers
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Teen Pregnancy Rates Reach Dramatic 40-year Low in US A study has showed a dramatic decrease of teen pregnancy in recent years. Guttmacher Inc. use a data published by US government found that the pregnancies rate among 15-19 year-old have declined 43 percent from its peak 22 years ago. The CEO of National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy said “the past two decades teen have adopted a less sex, more contraception strategy and its clearly working.” Although the rates of teen pregnancy
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IMPACTS OF GOVERNMENT STRATEGIES IN TACKLING TEENAGE PREGNANCY IN ENGLAND Name of student Class name Instructor’s name Name of school Date ABSTRACT Teenage pregnancy is one of the major problems affecting the United Kingdom’s not only the health sector but also all other sectors. The problem has slowly been increasing and through its associated negative impacts has affected the economic status of the country due to increased number of school drop-outs. Accessibility
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Beth Worthey 6/14/2011 ENG-106 English Composition II Stopping Teen Pregnancy Every single day, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services, there are 8 fifteen year olds, 24 sixteen year olds and 32 seventeen years olds who give birth. These children are 18% more likely to delay receiving prenatal care and 16% have preterm labor, while 10% of the babies are in the low birth weight category (Teen Birth Fact Sheets, 2011 pg 1-2). Each school district has a health curriculum
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Teen Pregnancy Thesis Statement: Teen pregnancy can be made by a mistake and I believe every teen that ends up pregnant should not be talked bad about and deserves another chance. I also believe that no one should judge a teen that has a child because they deserve to enjoy their blessing mistake or not. (a) This is a picture of a teenage girl that ended up taking a pregnancy test and finds out that she is pregnant.When some teens get their results they're either happy or sad and ends up
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Teen pregnancies in the Philippines By Rebecca B. Singson Philippine Daily Inquirer Filed Under: People, Lifestyle & Leisure MANILA, Philippines—The sexual revolution has ushered in a period in which the average adolescent experiences tremendous pressures to have sexual experiences of all kinds. Filipino teens get a higher exposure to sex from the Internet, magazines, TV shows, movies and other media than decades ago, yet without any corresponding increase in information on how to handle the input
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The three common reason teenagers practice unprotected sex is religion, illiteracy, and cultural expectations. Although teen pregnancy is an ongoing problem, there are many ways to make it less a less occurring incidence through protection, illiteracy, and media expectations. Firstly, teenagers do not care about birth control or protection to avoid unwanted pregnancies and diseases. “Over the last decade or so, the female condom has also entered the market, but has not found as much success
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