Children Having Children: Why is it a problem, and what policy changes can help prevent it?
Date Submitted: 03/14/2004 16:40:45
Category: / Recreation & Sports / Health & Beauty
Length: 9 pages (2370 words)
Category: / Recreation & Sports / Health & Beauty
Length: 9 pages (2370 words)
Although many people in the United States may equate teen pregnancy with minorities in the inner city and lower class women from rural areas, this problem is growing to encompass the entire cross-section of American society. It has become a plague of sorts that perpetuates poverty through the decrease in desire to obtain education and job skills that the young mother may otherwise develop. This, in turn, expands the community of citizens living in conditions …
Is this Essay helpful? Join now to read this particular paper
and access over 480,000 just like this GET BETTER GRADES
and access over 480,000 just like this GET BETTER GRADES
…Growth"
Family Planning Perspectives 31 (1999) : 56-63.
Kahn, James G., Claire D. Brindis, Dana A. Glei. "Pregnancies Averted Among U.S.
Teenagers by the Use of Contraceptives." 31 (1999): 29-34.
National Public Radio (NPR), Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF), and Harvard's Kennedy
School of Government. "Sex Education in America." Accessed on April 26, 2004.
http://www.kff.org/newsmedia/loader.cfm?url=/commonspot/security/getfile.cfm&PageID=30693
Rhode, Deborah L. "Adolescent Pregnancy and Public Policy." Political Science
Quarterly. 108 (1993-4): 635-669.
Need a custom written paper? Let our professional writers save your time.