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Teenage Pregnancy

Teenage Pregnancy

There is widespread anxiety over the changing composition of our society and the social demographic changes are very much in evidence and form one important level of what the problem of teenage pregnancy signifies in past years . The problem of teenage pregnancy in light of changes in social demographics , making teenage pregnancy a national problem now can be seen as an attempt to reaffirm values of rational life-planning , self-sufficiency and striving for upward mobility . It is an attempt to scare young women and men into conforming to and affirming

a life ed by reason , delayed gratification and an expectation that such actions will be rewarded with a good job and a decent place to live . The crisis of teenage pregnancy is also a warning that young people who violate these norms

The subculture is important to understanding the construction of teen pregnancy as a social problem define a social problem as a condition of society that has negative effects on a relatively large number of people . The emphasis here is a breadth of impact . A more common formulation of a social problem is a large number of people expressing or having some condition or behaviour which is viewed as undesirable . In this latter sense , teenage pregnancy is clearly a social problem . In the former it is doubtful that teenage pregnancy has a negative impact even through welfare spending on a large number of people . With the growing number of teenage unwanted pregnancy many teenagers girls had suffer because of early pregnancy , they are not ready for the consequences of it

Teenage pregnancies do not occur in vacuum . Too often they are the product of economic disadvantage and inadequate educational systems , of poor housing , family instability and the emotional deprivation associated with it . Because the children of teenage mothers have an even slimmer chance of escaping these conditions , they too may become adolescent parents . Nine out of ten teen agree that teen pregnancy is a serious problem , fully one-third of teens do not think that the kids in their communities are getting clear message from the adults in their lives than pregnancy is wrong and fewer than six of ten teens strongly agree that they are getting a clear message that teen pregnancy is wrong . This may be due to queasiness among others about talking sand that has a values component , a sense of not wanting to impose one 's values on another . It also may reflect a popular culture that has become increasingly tolerant of unwed pregnancy and childbearing . For bearing a child means a lifetime responsibility and teens are not yet ready or prepared on taking a baby . When we are all teenagers we think we can do everything that a big mistake , specially in our society now that everything relies on the material matters , how can they provide the needs of the baby , they need to work and unfortunately wage for teenagers are just enough to pay for their allowances in school it can never provide...

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