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Essay on Teenage Pregnancy
Teen pregnancy is an overwhelming experience for nearly all teens and their parents. Study indicates that one out of four of all women will turn out to be pregnant before the age of twenty. There are more than a few options for pregnant teenagers as well as keeping their child, adoption and abortion. The collective/cultural aspects of sex are also convoluted. In our culture there are rules about sex that are not unavoidably related to anything physical, on the other hand to a certain extent to one’s beliefs about what are right/wrong or healthy/unhealthy.
Problems with sexual functioning often arise when our biological drives and the cultural rules are in conflict. A number of experts believe that the cultural rules influence and control our drives, while others believe that our biological drives tend to overpower the cultural rules. This is a complex argument which we won’t be able to resolve in this report. Nevertheless, it is significant that you comprehend there are definite "rules" linked with sexual behavior and that these rules influence what you think of as right/wrong and healthy/unhealthy.
Pregnancy and maternity throughout the teenage years continue to represent significant social, economic, and health concerns in the United States. This problem area has therefore been examined from several perspectives to identify risk factors, antecedents, or correlates that may facilitate early identification and intervention with presumably vulnerable teenagers. The disadvantaged backgrounds and disruptions in their family of origin that characterize many teenage parents and the possibility of intergenerational transmission are suggestive of social causal or contributory factors. The reported association of teenage pregnancy with conduct disorder, poor impulse control, and other problem behaviors point toward mental health or psychiatric factors as putative casual agents. However, findings of characteristic reproductive patterns across racial groups also implicate attitudinal differences toward teenage pregnancy......
