Teenage Pregnancy Stastistic

Vanessa Beckley

Teenage Pregnancy

HCS465

August 13, 2014

Elizabeth McNutt

Over the years teenage pregnancy has become to decline however it still seems to be a major problem in the United States especially amongst minorities. It’s been noted that about 85% of pregnancy are unplanned. There are far more risk and concerned with teenage pregnancy. The way to battle and continue to see declining numbers in teenage pregnancy is to educate more teens about the risk with teenage pregnancy. It’s important to discuss these issues before sexually activity starts. Sex education and awareness is very important in both adolescent boys and girls. Adolescent pregnancy, has an adverse consequences for the health and well-being of both mother and child, has reached unforeseen levels in the United States. In minority neighborhoods, poor and working class urban areas teenage pregnancy is higher. Twenty-five percent of teen births are born to African American teens and twenty-eight percent are born to Latino teens (Roxas, K. 2008).

The main problem with teenage pregnancy is a lack of information.  Prevention strategies reported in the literature have varied in philosophy, purpose, structure, and content (Orbuch, 1989). Most recent interventions have focused solely on education and getting adolescents to abstain from sexual activity, whereas others have concentrated on teaching adolescents rational and social skills thought to decrease the chance of teenage pregnancy (Christopher, F. S. 1995) One basis of evidence about the relationship between sex education and pregnancy prevention comes from several national probability surveys that have been intermittently conducted since the mid-1970s. For two, the findings of these investigations are broad brush indicators of a relationship between these variables. First, findings are often the result of examining a small number of questionnaire that are only one part of a larger sexuality survey of adolescents. Second, the surveys...