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    clothing, counseling services and primary health care centers and programs, including access to be unified. The long-term homeless youth ages 16-21 for a life of self-sufficiency (up to 18 months additional 180 days if less than 18 years old) transitional living programs to support residential services. Childbirth Group homeless pregnant and parenting youth 16-21 years of age (under 18 years are added up to 18 months 180 days) homes and their dependent children for long-term residential

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    Essay on Teen Pregnancy

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    across the world have not been receiving enough sex education. This has led to many issues with teens becoming pregnant, which most of the time is unanticipated. Teenage pregnancy has been a social problem throughout the world for a number of decades now. Many studies have been completed in several countries that pertain to the amount of teens and the types of teens who are becoming pregnant. Rates among teens had been declining for some time, but are starting to take a turn and increase. This is

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    following risks- neonatal abstinence syndrome, costly expenses, and life-long complications for the child. Tennessee is the first state to recognize the importance of criminalizing pregnant drug users who threaten their unborn child’s life. Tennessee is implementing a statute to determine whether criminalizing pregnant opioid users will benefit the social problem. As Gaspari says, “The Tennessee statute provides that a woman can be charged with a misdemeanor if her baby is harmed as a result of her

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    Physiological Changes

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    manufacturer[11]. Yuan et al. found that of 1744 pregnant women tested throughout pregnancy, 252 women (14.4%) would have TSH misclassified as abnormal and 23 (1.3%) with a TSH concentration outside the limit would not be identified when a non pregnant reference range was compared with trimester specific ranges. The potential for misclassification of TSH was greatest in the 1st trimester (31.0%)[12]. Stricker et al found that use of the non pregnant reference interval could result in misclassification

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    eLibrary. Web. 23 Mar. 2016. In 2004 the morning after pill was only available at the pharmacy by prescription The morning after pill is not a pill that helps abort if already pregnant Birth control pills are like the morning after pill Birth control pill takes a time to make affect The morning after pill acts right away when taken before 5 days of having unprotected sex Interfere with fertilization Delay ovulation 51,000 abortions

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    A problem in society today is early sexual activity instead practicing abstinence. Parents, churches/religion, schools and government programs discourage sexual activity by teaching the importance of abstinence, but sex is glamorized in society , by the the media, the movies, commercials, advertisements and music that glamorizes sexuality and makes it confusing for adolescent to know what is acceptable and how they should behave. Parents Parents want their children to practice abstinence for their

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    chapter “Maricela,” in Paul Fleischman’s novel Seedfolks, illustrates how being a pregnant teenager could make a girl hate her life. Firstly, Maricela’s story takes place in a vacant lot, on Gibb Street, in East Cleveland, Ohio. The chapter presents Maricela, who is in a group for troubled, pregnant teens. The group is run by a woman named Penny. The beginning problem is that Maricela is a 16-year-old, Mexican, pregnant girl who hates her life and wishes her baby would die. The first rising action is

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    Should Abortion Be Legal?

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    The Right to Choose Life is a journey. It starts in the womb. You start growing, getting facial features, fingers, toes, your heart is beating so fast. We all start so small, yet still are so significant, and at some point someone makes a decision for us. Abortion of adoption? How does one decide on whether to keep the baby or not? There are many pros and cons to each choice, but individuals get to weigh them out and make the decision for themselves. This topic has come up many times in

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    16 high school teenage girls in ranging in the age of 13 and 17 years old host got pregnant after a pool party turned out badly, Tallahassee herald proclaimed just this morning. A common weekend pool party swung to catastrophe when one of the young fellows (Tommy Coulter) attending the said party, ejaculated in the pool without giving notice to the house visitors, inadvertently winding up impregnating half of the young girls present at the party. "I'm happy I didn't have my bathing suit that

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    " YouTube. YouTube, 22 July 2012. Web. 10 Feb. 2016. . This source discusses the true meaning of Gaby Rodriguez’ project and why she felt it was the right thing to do. She also talks about in the interview of what her opinion is on the show 16 and pregnant, and how she thinks it reveals much of the struggles of being a teen mom, but not all the struggles. Gaby also talks about how she felt during the project and how she was treated. This source is credible because it is coming out straight from

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