Introduction Pregnancy among teenagers especially those that are at tertiary institution seems to be an increasing problem with serious health implication for young mothers. Teenage pregnancy is an unintended and unexpected pregnancy of women with the age of 19 below. The number of teen pregnancies is increasing and it is a common problem in the country. This is the condition of being pregnant of adolescence aged 10 to 19. The victims of teenage pregnancy are the girl herself, her child, her parents
the main causes of Juvenile Delinquency is Teenage Pregnancy. An astonishing number of teenagers become pregnant each year. In 2014, the World Health Organisation reported that about sixteen million girls aged 15 to 19 years and approximately one million girls less than 15 years old give birth each year, majority of which are from low and middle income countries. According to TeenHelp.com, the United States has the highest yearly rate of teenage pregnancy with 820,000 teens becoming pregnant each
Teen pregnancies have recently become too common among in United Kingdom (UK). It has been noted by the authorities (mainly the hospital workers and healthcare agencies) that teen pregnancy has become one of the major issues for the healthcare workers as well as for social welfare workers. The UK is extensively cited as devising the maximum live birth percentage amongst 15-19 year-olds in Western Europe. Even the utmost affluent regions in the UK have greater percentages of teenage pregnancy than
for crime, teenage pregnancy, drug abuse, and school underachievement. "He believed that boosting young people’s self-esteem could be seen as a “social vaccine.” This signifies that enhancing a teenager’s self-esteem meant it could be a cure for possibly anything. People with high self-esteem obtained more money and paid more for their taxes. His conjecture was that if self-esteem could be ameliorated, then it would be balanced out for the state’s budget. “As a result of his research carried out
Precious is a movie based on a novel called Push by the author Sapphire. The movie came out in 2009 and was directed by Lee Daniels. The movie Precious is taken place in 1987 in the ghetto of Harlem, New York City. The character Claireece Precious Jones, normally called Precious, is a 16 year old overweight female who lives with her mother. The home environment for Precious is dysfunctional, her mother is unemployed and abuses her physically, mentally, and sexually. Precious has been raped by
suicide, smoking, motor vehicle crashes, substance use and abuse, sexually transmitted infections, teen and unplanned pregnancies and homelessness. Most of these health, social and behavioral problems are related to the biological changes of puberty. Through the research it becomes clear that the most health problems that occur in adolescence leads to suicide. In other words, a lot of research considers adolescent suicide is the result of the adolescent health problems. Suicidal behavior is not
The Ghetto Effect and the Urban Traumatic Stress Syndrome (UTSS) {WARNING CONTENTS MAY CAUSE EMOTIONAL DRAMA} This book is not based upon scientific research and study. Nor is it based upon someone who has spent his or her life in academia. I am just your average American Joe who has been blessed to see every aspect of American society first hand. This book is not intended to appease anyone. If it causes you to find hate in your heart or want to run out and change things. Then this is good