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    Name: Alina Dubinskaia ID: 017229147 Class: 804KK Shayne Fogle Essay ABORTION: Between Parent And Child When a Teenager Seeks an Abortion, Should Parents Be Told? Abortion is the number one cause of deaths annually in the U.S. Furthermore, most abortions happen under the age of 18. Although abortion operations are legalized for adolescents in the United States, some states still require parental notification and permission. These teens are often overcome by the choice not only to abort, which

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    The Aspen Education Group

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    Being correctly educated comes in the form of proper contraceptive measures such as condom use, birth control, or just abstaining from sex period. An author by the name of Dr. Bogle, wrote a book about the changing culture of teenage hooking up. Hooking up in the 60s used to be defined as making out. “Hooking Up: Sex, Dating and Relationships on Campus” (N.Y.U. Press, 2008) stated that dating rules between teenagers began to change in the 1960s. After this time what could be seen

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    There are numerous social disadvantages of children born of teenage mothers. Due to the mother not being finished growing, limited opportunities for education or the factor of being a single parent add as stress factors that impact young children. According to Dr. Julia Morinis, lead author and researcher for the Centre for Research on Inner City Health of St. Michael’s Hospital, “It’s likely that being a teen mother is a risk factor that indicates poorer circumstance for development in some cases

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    to teenage parents are more likely to have a less supportive and less stimulating home environment, lower cognitive development, behavioral problems, and will most likely have a child when they are a teenager (Kirby 2007). Though there are some exceptions, this becomes a never ending cycle for these teenagers from generation to generation. Most people begin to have sex in their teenaged years (Carlson & Tanner 2006). Out of all industrialized nations, the United States has the highest teenage pregnancy

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    the rate of teenage pregnancy. In the 1996 the government “the U.S. congress enacted welfare reform legislation” funded a program line no regrets to promote “abstinence-only –until-marriage education” (Teenage) this is to help students in schools see that they should wait to be married to have sex. This program did reduce the rates of teenage pregnancies and until today many of these programs are in use today. There are government programs that have been helpful toward reducing teenage pregnancy,

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    Topic: Teenage Pregnancy Sections I and II Primary Audience: My primary audience is the citizens of the U.S.; this includes tax payers, parents, state officials, education officials and teen moms. In the U.S. we have several teens that are experiencing unprotected sex, without any knowledge of pregnancy prevention or sex education. When teen girls become pregnant, this also affects the parents. This is a huge responsibility and burden for all involved parties. Health benefits are needed for

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    Juno : A Normal Girl

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    Juno is 16-year-old girl and is a junior in high-school. Juno is a normal girl who feels slightly out of place in high school and finds the whole situation of adolescence a bit meaningless. She discovers she 's pregnant after one event in a chair with her best friend, Paulie Bleeker. She is smart enough to know she does not have the maturity to become a mother. This makes its hard to make some of the decisions she now must make for the future of her baby and herself. She has the options of having

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    Abstinence Only Programs: Funding the Demolishment of Human Rights in America “Don’t have sex because you will get pregnant and die!” (Mean Girls). This famous quote said by Coach Carr, the health teacher, in the movie Mean Girls swarms the brains of teenagers all over the world. While this quote is quite extreme and is making a mockery of abstinence only programs, it’s analogous to what teachers across the nation are reciting to brainwash our youth. Abstinence-Until-Marriage programs are implemented

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    Teen pregnancy is a very controversial social issue and the vast majority of Americans consider the outrageous rate of teen pregnancies a severe issue, certainly a problematic occurrence that is believed to be a moral decline in our country. Teenagers are physiologically capable of reproducing but not emotionally or financially prepared to be parents at such a tender age. Through various research studies a plethora of determinants has pin pointed teens unprecedented pregnancies. One cause of this

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    Sex is a very awkward subject to talk about especially for parents to their children, as it brings up thoughts and topics over raging hormones and actions. Ever since humans have evolved through time, sex has been imperative to survival by sharing various genetics, skills, and traits from both parties. Seems easy enough? Not necessarily. Even if parents do use the classic ‘birds and the bees’ analogy for discuss this scandalous subject, children are still curious about how it works and wish to explore

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