Teenage Pregnancy
Today, teenagers experience sexuality and respond to what their feelings are in often an irresponsible way. In their hearts and minds they often times feel that they're in love, when it is usually infatuation. Young men and women are struggling with the many different urges of their bodies, with one another, and not to mention the least with the social, cultural, and moral assumptions of this new generation. Youths are proclaiming their worries, confusions and fears. Unwed teenage mothers represent a large percentage of the poverty rate in the United States with the African American women representing the majority according to Sandra S. Smith of the US department of the Health and Human services. She states that the birthrates for teenagers in the United States declined for the third consecutive year but remains at a record high level for the African American teens.Teenagers now must decide weather to engage in sexual activity or abstain, use contraception, have an abortion, keep the baby or put it up for adoption. All of these teenagers share a particular way of life and it's different possibilities and responsibilities. The way things are going with the unwed mothers and the poverty level, we need to
to keep having babies and not to progress in life. Where is our self-worth, and why is that not something that is or can be taught to everyone? In 1971, 30 percent of the young women 15 to 19 years of age had experienced premarital intercourse; by 1976, the proportion of premarital sexual experienced young women had increased to 41 percent. The proportion of sexually experienced women increase with current age. African American females are much more prone to have premarital sex than Caucasian women are because it is considered to be accepted among the blacks than the whites. As far back as slavery men would remark that they didn't first time they had intercourse. Medical Methods were obtained in the first instance about equally from clinics and private physicians. Blacks and those who score low on religiosity show some greater preference for clinic at the place to get their first pill prescriptions and IUD insertions; whites and those inclined toward a religious outlook are slightly partial to the private physician. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To me teenage pregnancy is a problem among all races, but obviously more among the African Americans. We need to educate our own instead of leaving it up to everyone else. Society plays a major part in the problem also with the United States becoming so liberal and allowing anything as being ok. If we don't practice being examples for our teens by displaying morals, than we can't expect them to do anything different. sample of pregnant and nonpregnant late age low -income African American Adolescent females' perceptions about their transitions to adulthood. Findings suggest that adolescent pregnancy, although problematic, may be a solution to developmental concerns for some black females and serves as a rite of passage to adulthood. Thematic categories of mate selection, opportunity mobility, and care protection r
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