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Why Teen Pregnancy Is A Concern
Teen Pregnancy is a concern in many countries. In this paper a teen is defined as a male or female between the ages of 14-20. Of the Western industrialized nations, the United States has one of the highest teen birth rates. In the United States approximately 905,000 teens become impregnated each year: 9.4% of our youth population. Of this group an estimated 78% of pregnancies were unintended and in 40% of the cases the teen was under the age of 20. Although the number of teen pregnancies has decreased from 1 million, the statistics support the continuation of efforts to reduce these rates. The high number of adolescent births in our country is more than just an isolated problem, it is a problem that reaches across our entire culture. Nearly two thirds of America’s high school population is sexually active by the time they graduate. We need not focus solely on the teens that become pregnant; we need to focus on our youths’ sexual patterns as a whole. How Trends are Monitored To monitor the trends in our population relating to the rates of teen pregnancy, five major surveys are used: the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG), the National Survey of Adolescent Males (NASM), the Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS), the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), and the National Health Institute Survey (NHIS). The results of a variety of surveys are used in order to lower high or low skewed results. NSFG is not limited to the teen population. It provides detailed info on fertility related behavior among a nationally representative household sample of woman/girls ages 15-44 (Santelli, Duberstien, Abma, Sucoff & Resnick, 2000). The sample population for this survey is extracted from all 50 states. The survey is conducted face-to-face in a private setting with trained interviewers. Both parental and adolescent sexual perspectives are reflected in this survey. NSAM is the male count... Please login to view comments from other users.
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