Pregnancy: a social problem? Or an everyday thing
I have chosen to explore the effects of teen pregnancy among males. Society doesn’t understand how these boys feel when they find out that their girlfriend is pregnant. Some just don’t want to the responsibility, others step up to the plate and take care of their responsibilities Guys are even affected more by teen pregnancy than girls due to the financial and social issues that they have to deal with when having a kid at a young age Such as not being able to live the life that these guys want and having to give up friends as a result. My purpose for writing this paper is to address the cause and effect of teen pregnancy.
Another effect is socially they are not going to be involved with their …show more content…
Now it’s about how are they going to provide for themselves and the baby. Now, the guy would have to go out and find a job to provide for the baby. Some teen boys when they find out how much a baby cost they feel overwhelmed that all that hard work goes into taking care of a baby financially. The cause of that is there is not enough support groups for teen fathers for them to find jobs or have workshops so that they can be well knowledgeable in knowing how to care of their families …show more content…
The most common excuse that guys use is “I don’t have time to spend with him or her” meaning their son or daughter and for the father not to bear too much of the responsibility they go out and hang with their friends more than staying at home raising their kids. Inside their heads they aren’t mature enough to handle this responsibility by themselves because the brain is still growing and developing according to another study conducted by Gordon D.E (1990) who wrote the book Formal Operational thinking: The role of cognitive –developmental processes in adolescent decision – making about pregnancy and contraception thought many of the current programs aimed at stopping teen pregnancy were not effective because they failed to understand the developmental characteristics of adolescent thinking.
When guys have unprotected sex at a young age they don’t think about the consequences of having sex at a young age like teen pregnancy, STDs or STIs, or the emotions that comes with it. Most guys after they have sex with a girl they are going to leave because they don’t view the girl the same way when he first got with her. But if they were more educated on the use of contraception and how to use it there wouldn’t be that much teen dads and moms it’s up to both parties to responsible so that that one day they don’t end up with a kid and having to put their dreams on
I have chosen to explore the effects of teen pregnancy among males. Society doesn’t understand how these boys feel when they find out that their girlfriend is pregnant. Some just don’t want to the responsibility, others step up to the plate and take care of their responsibilities Guys are even affected more by teen pregnancy than girls due to the financial and social issues that they have to deal with when having a kid at a young age Such as not being able to live the life that these guys want and having to give up friends as a result. My purpose for writing this paper is to address the cause and effect of teen pregnancy.
Another effect is socially they are not going to be involved with their …show more content…
Now it’s about how are they going to provide for themselves and the baby. Now, the guy would have to go out and find a job to provide for the baby. Some teen boys when they find out how much a baby cost they feel overwhelmed that all that hard work goes into taking care of a baby financially. The cause of that is there is not enough support groups for teen fathers for them to find jobs or have workshops so that they can be well knowledgeable in knowing how to care of their families …show more content…
The most common excuse that guys use is “I don’t have time to spend with him or her” meaning their son or daughter and for the father not to bear too much of the responsibility they go out and hang with their friends more than staying at home raising their kids. Inside their heads they aren’t mature enough to handle this responsibility by themselves because the brain is still growing and developing according to another study conducted by Gordon D.E (1990) who wrote the book Formal Operational thinking: The role of cognitive –developmental processes in adolescent decision – making about pregnancy and contraception thought many of the current programs aimed at stopping teen pregnancy were not effective because they failed to understand the developmental characteristics of adolescent thinking.
When guys have unprotected sex at a young age they don’t think about the consequences of having sex at a young age like teen pregnancy, STDs or STIs, or the emotions that comes with it. Most guys after they have sex with a girl they are going to leave because they don’t view the girl the same way when he first got with her. But if they were more educated on the use of contraception and how to use it there wouldn’t be that much teen dads and moms it’s up to both parties to responsible so that that one day they don’t end up with a kid and having to put their dreams on