Teen Pregnancies

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This paper examines how the teen pregnancy phenomenon simply does not go away, no matter how much parents and schools and communities attempt to eliminate it and how there is no ethnic or racial group, or religious group, which is immune from the problem. It looks at how the problem is seemingly irresolvable and how it is exacerbated by the increasing availability of sexually-explicit materials and programs, including books, magazines, movies, cable TV programs, X-rated Internet Web sites and chat rooms, and more. It discusses how the responsibility for the sexual behavior of teenagers will, ultimately, always come down to the parents and families and how churches, schools, community health organizations, media agencies, and other concerned volunteers and professionals should certainly coordinate more closely to combat the problem.

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"Hard as communities and agencies try, they seem to fail at stopping teen pregnancies, albeit, between 1991 and 1999, fewer girls in "every state" gave birth (Wetzstein, 2001), bringing the national teenage rate to its lowest level in 14 years. This drop, according to Child Trends, was possibly due to HIV / AIDs education programs, which frightened teens; dying from AIDS is indeed a more serious problem than just becoming pregnant. Still, over a million teen pregnancies a year indicates that the problem is not going away."

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