Teenage Mothers

Paper Summary:

This paper provides a proposal for research that will examine the impact certain family factors have on teenager females becoming teenage mothers. The paper explores the problem of teen pregnancy and provides a literature review on research that has been conducted in the past on similar subjects. The paper then proposes a method of study and methods of data collection and analysis for this research.

Table of Contents:
Introduction
Literature Review
Methodology
Participants
Data Analysis
Conclusion

From the Paper:

"Research about teenage pregnancy is abundant in many areas of risk outside of family protective factors. Much of this research highlights the need for further study while also answering questions about the causes and problems associated with teenage pregnancy. One study identified risk factors for early pregnancy as they related to emotional stability among the teenage mothers. The study examined teenagers who had been diagnosed as severely emotionally disturbed, (SED). The study was conducted over a seven year period and it used 190 female adolescents. The study followed them to determine what number of them would become pregnant while they were still in their teenage years (Greenbaum, 2002). The study was initiated when the selected participants were between the ages of nine and 18 years old."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Greenbaum, Paul E. (2002) Early pregnancy among adolescent females with serious emotional disturbances: risk factors and outcomes.Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders
• ______(1998) TEEN MOTHERS - SELECTED SOCIAL-DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS AND RISK FACTORS. Government Accounting Office Report
• Sandefur, Gary (1994) K.A. Moore and others, A Statistical Portrait of Adolescent Sex, Contraception, and Childbearing (Washington, D.C.: National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, 1998); and Sara McLanahan and Gary Sandefur, Growing Up With a Single Parent: What Hurts, What Helps (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1994).
• Cummins, HJ (2000) Single parents, race only small factors in explaining teen risks; 'U' researchers found adolescents' risky choices are more affected by school failure and too much free time, especially with friends who drink or smoke.(NEWS) Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN
• Schmalzried, Hans D (1998) Rural junior high school students' risk factors for and perceptions of teen-age parenthood. Journal of School Health

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