Daycare: A Case Study

Teen pregnancy is surprisingly decreasing over the years. According to Farber, “the most recent studies have shown that there has been a decrease in the rate of pregnancies among all teenagers and among sexually active teenagers (16). Although this issue seems is decreasing this is still a problem faced by many teenage girls today. Each year, 7.5 percent of all 15-19 year old women become pregnant (Maynard 1). Not only does this issue affects the pregnant teen but it also affects the economy. Teen pregnancy affects graduation rates. Many teen mothers cite pregnancy as the key reason of them not finishing school. Only 40 percent of teen mothers finish high school (Teen Pregnancy Affects Graduation Rates). The 60 percent of teen mothers

High School dropout rates have been a problem since the word high school became a term. To begin, a study researched by Education Week, Rumberger interprets “...The nation 's leading education periodical estimates that 1.3 million students from the high school class of 2010 failed to graduate” (Rumberger 61). Taking those findings you can go a step further and narrow the field to one of the causes of dropout rates, which is teen pregnancy. By focusing on teen pregnancy your able to narrow down the field of research and solve one problem at a time. According to Rumberger “...68 percent of young women who had a child by age eighteen had completed high school by age twenty – two compared to 94 percent of young women who did not experience a teen birth” (1294). These numbers can translate into discovering solutions to fix the dropout rates of pregnant teenagers. Discovering the needs of pregnant teenagers and teen mothers will lead to an understanding evolving into solutions to prevent pregnant teens from dropping out of high school. Allowing for the increase of female graduates. Fixing one problem of high school dropouts allows for other possibilities in other areas. Therefore, by developing after school programs with counseling, along with programs to prepare for the future and to provide child care services for single mothers the numbers will increase of students finishing high school.

More parents than ever these days are working outside of the home. This means that when the school bell rings, many children are left unsupervised and with no where to go but an empty house with no supervision. Not only that, but some parents are also struggling to provide adequate after-school care. Either they cannot afford the monthly payments of a daycare, or the programs are just simply not available to them. (Ansell, 2004).

Girls who gave birth while still in high school only 38% of them graduate. The reason the rest of them drop out is since they are forced to work in order to support their child. Nearly all cannot manage parenthood, school, work without family or friends help. With teenage mothers “Their children showed reduced educational attainment, had more emotional and behavioral problems, were at increased risk of maltreatment or harm, and showed higher rates of illness, accidents and injuries.” (Dennison P. 6) Just in the state of Texas, in 2012, there were 44 births per 1,000 girls’ state wide. Nationwide 50% of pregnancies are accidental in 2006. Teen parents also are a financial load to society, According to the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, in 2004, all together taxpayers paid more than eight billion dollars to help support health cares designed to help the 420,000 teenage mothers who gave birth in that year. “results from economic analyses suggest that implementing evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention programs, expanding access to Medicaid family planning services, and utilizing mass media campaigns to promote safe sex may reduce teen pregnancy and save taxpayer dollars.” (Without the help of drugs like Plan B or any type of birth control, a large amount of teenage girls will become unplanned mothers, making more of a financial burden to society.

    A new challenge has overcame this generation of society. Keeping teen-moms in school and graduating with a degree, is a circumstance the community should risk fighting for. This generation of humans, the thought of sexual activity is more common and there are higher risks of producing a baby. The importance of keeping pregnant teenagers in high school, is so influential for their education and their future career. Becoming a new mom would lead to new stressful situations, which may cost them to quit high school and get a job to care for their newborn. Having new ideas and ways to prevent dropout rates from increasing, could just save their education. There are some strategies that are more common in high schools today,

Have you ever thought why won’t the schools develop daycare programs at the school? The daycare center at the school for young teen mothers who dropout of school to start their career early without furthering their education and young teen fathers won’t feel the need to drop out to get a job and support his child. There are some on site daycare’s in some states but there’s just a few, there needs to be more. Although having on site daycare center has some bad to it, to others it has some good to it like teen parents feeling of security can be satisfied knowing that their child is in a safe place, create more jobs, and teens save up money and welfare won’t be an option.

Thank you for contacting the Governor’s Advocacy Office regarding if the ERDC program can cover daycare costs while someone is looking/interviewing for potential jobs.

In the first place, a lot of parents are busy during their days. Obviously they must work since their child is in an expensive daycare. Or they may be going to college to further their career to support their family. Not every one is fortunate to have a babysitter or relative willing to watch their child all the time on a regular basis. Just because a parent drops their child or children off in a daycare whether it be every day all day, doesn’t mean neglect but that the parent or parents are most likely doing something productive to better their families lives.

Charles said that Betty didn’t give a chance for the childminder to help her and didn’t take the opportunity to explain the childminder what’s happened.

Being able to bring a child to daycare to experience new roles in life and other than the life at home is beneficial. Being at a daycare center would help children to trust people other than their parents which is usually the primary caregiver. The time that is spent in daycare in a child’s life is a very important key in a child’s life. Putting a child into daycare allows the caregiver to be support their confidence, explore their surroundings, and able to be give age appropriate martials for them to relate to their peers and grow. The experience they received at home might not be the same experience they received at the daycare center.

On-site child care reduces stress and eliminates worry. Parents no longer have to find reliable, acceptable and proximity-close care. Employee's attention is solely on work and not elsewhere.

Not only will birth control decrease risk for disease and teen pregnancy, it will increase the rate of teens receiving a high school diploma. Teenage girls are more at risk of dropping out if they become pregnant; however, if they had birth control, a higher quantity would not get pregnant and drop out. Saras Chung, author of “New Study Links Teen Pregnancy and Dropout, Spotlight Solutions,” asserts, “Teen pregnancy and high school dropouts are linked.” This expert opinion displays that vital consequences are linked to teen pregnancy. Chung also listed some statistics in the same article. She affirms, “One in three teen mothers earned neither a diploma nor a GED” (Chung). Some teenage mothers do not go on

Becoming pregnant at a young age can alter all of the plans that the soon to be mother and father have made, and sadly it is altering a substantial amount of lives. It is estimated that “roughly one in four girls will be pregnant at least once before age 20,” (Teen Pregnancy Prevention, 2016) in the United States. That means that one in four girls will be faced with the decision of dropping out of high school to raise their child. Some of these girls will have the will power and a support system to continue going to school, but not all of them will be that lucky. Statistics have shown that Alabama is the highest when it comes to teen pregnancy. “Alabama was ranked 1 out of 51 (50 states + the District of Columbia) on 2011 final teen births rates among females age 15-19 (with 1 representing the highest rate and 51 representing the lowest rate),” (The Office of

It is stated that 30% of all teen girls that dropout list pregnancy as the main reason why they dropped out. The rates of pregnant teen dropouts are higher in the lower class, and the minority groups. It has been said that nearly two-thirds of all teen families live in poverty and at least one in four will live on welfare before the child becomes a toddler. Children of teen parents are more likely to dropout, one-third of all children with teen parents are said to drop out while 19% of children with older parents will dropout. Approximately 40% of all teen mothers will end up finishing high school, and only 2% will attend and finish college by the time they turn thirty. Young women attending a community college that get

There continues to be too high levels of sexual risk-taking by teens, 47 percent of the high schools students reported having sex at least once and the other 63 percent said they have engaged in sex, by the spring semester of their senior year (Santelli). Teenagers are not using contraceptives carefully, and consistently. 40 of every 1,000 girls ages 15 to 19 gave birth in 2005(Oglesby 2012). Pregnancy and birth are significant contributors to high school dropout rates among girls. Only about fifty percent of teen moms receive a high school diploma by the age twenty-two, versus approximately ninety percent of women who had not given birth