TO THE FUTURE YET UNBORN The human race has evolved; sifting through histories and generations. A school of thought believe it all started somewhere in the Middle-East called The Garden of Eden; and another body of knowledge think human evolved from the apes. Whichever way it is, man is not where he used to be. The transition from the creation to the ‘prehistory’, through the Stone Age, the Greco-Roman, the industrial revolution, the Cold War, the conspiracy theories, the Big Data, the…
Surprisingly only 17% of the abortions that were performed were teenage women in 2007. Even though some people may disagree with abortions they don’t realize that in the United States, the states that have made abortion illegal have cost the love of 65,000 to 70,000 and caused about 5 million women to suffer temporary or permanent disability. In 2007 the WHO announced that abortion is actually the one of the safest procedures to complete in medical practice. In the year of 2007, 47 of the 50…
Young (1977) examined identities of the different substances and recognised that there was gender attached to them. Young (1977) explained within his chapter, that ‘many of the plants, chemicals, or substances used, furthermore, have male or female qualities attributed, or their cultural use or proscription is gender specific’ (cited by Young 1977) (MacDonald, 1994, pg 62). A similar theory has been exercised by Smith and Grey (1983) from when they evaluated ‘The Policy Studies report on the…
Within the stance of drugs and alcohol representation and consumption comes into a motion of how youth in the 20th century differs from the youth historically in that the contemporary construction of how youth have been limited to a politics and understanding of sexuality and merely is defined as either a commodity or as a problem (Giroux, 1996 p. 32). Relationships, not only within sex but also taking the form of family and kin, along with other associations including friendship, lie at the…
Teen dating should be discouraged because of the amount of peer pressure and the higher risks associated with it. To begin with, in the article “Teen Dating Doomed to Fail,” the author claims that teen boys often feel pressure to have sex which “may result in boys coercing girls… to have sex when they are not ready”(6). Thus, teens who date can be forced into something they don’t want to do showing immaturity. In order to help prevent peer pressure from spreading, teens should not form romantic…
The abortion rate among teens ages 15-19 declined by 67% between 1990 and 2011. Importance Roughly a quarter of all teen pregnancies in the U.S. end in abortion. Three in four teen pregnancies are unintended, and two out of every five of them end in abortion. Many reasons for teens choosing abortion includes: personal goal blocker, finacial stability, and maturity. While there are options such as graduating early, and government help. Many teens feel that abortion is their only option.…
Pregnancy is a more significant situation that homeless adolescent women face because the prevalence is greater than for teens living in a home. Pregnancy has a lasting effect on homeless women by interfering with their ambitions in life to travel, achieve an education, and their ability to care for themselves decreases. Some adolescent women will not practice safe sex thinking pregnancy will improve relationships even though they are unable to commit to a partner. Sex is used as a tool to…
In contrast, more than ninety percent of American women with four-year college degrees wait until after they are married to have children. College-educated young adults foresee a brighter economic future that can strengthen marriages. They may live with a partner first, postpone marriage until after earning their graduate’s degrees or establishing themselves in careers, but they are content to wait until marriage before having children. Moreover, their marriages are longer lasting. SInce 1980,…
Introduction Teen pregnancy has both short and long-term consequences, thus, having profound effects on the life trajectories of teen mothers and their babies (Langille, 2007). Given the societal impact and consequences of teen pregnancy on both the mother and child, public health efforts and research have been directed to designing and implementing evidence-based interventions that address this problem. (Centres for Disease Control [CDC], 2017) Teen Pregnancy: Life Course Perspective The life…
In 2011 Advocates for Youth compared some statistics of teen pregnancy, abortion, HIV, STI’s, and use of contraceptives in America and Europe. The results were that, US’s teen pregnancy rate was three times Germany and Frances rates and four times the Netherlands (Alford, 2011). The adult population that was diagnosed with HIV or AIDs for the US was six times greater than…