Decline in the Teenage Pregnancy Rates Cause and Effect Essay by ABCs

Decline in the Teenage Pregnancy Rates
An examination of the correlation between sex education in schools and declining teenage pregnancy rates in Georgia.
# 114132 | 4,396 words | 17 sources | APA | 2009 | US
Published on May 31, 2009 in Education (Development Studies) , Child, Youth Issues (Teen, Adult Issues) , Hot Topics (Birth Control)


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Description:

This paper discusses the dramatic declines that have been seen in the rate of teenage pregnancies and births in the United States, and Georgia in particular, in the past fifteen years. It examines whether sex education in schools is the underlying reason why so many teenagers are now choosing to wait until they are married before experimenting with sex.

Table of Contents:
Abstract
Introduction
Literature Review
Methodology
Results and Discussion
Recommendations

From the Paper:

"The results of educational training in regards to sexual abstinence by teenagers in Georgia seems to show that those teenagers are influenced by the information and that they at least outwardly feel more compunction to abstain when pressured by other individuals of the same belief. If that is true, and New Horizons and AHYD continue in effectively presenting the information directly to teenagers, then it would seem that the only drawback to being able to present the information in an effective manner would be the lack of personnel, time and dollars necessary to ensure the program's viability."

Sample of Sources Used:

  • Alan Guttmacher Institute (2004) US teenage pregnancy statistics: overall trends, trends by race and ethnicity, and state-by-state information, New York, Available at: http://www.guttinacher.org/pubs/state-pregnancy-trends.pdf. Accessed August 20, 2008
  • As teen births drop, experts are asking why, (2004) Policy and Practice of Public Human Services, Vol. 62, No. 4, p. 7
  • Brown, S.S. (2005) Interview, Issues in Science and Technology, Vol 21, No. 3, pp. 65 - 70
  • Caldwell, P.; (2003) Trends in reproductive behavior among young single women in Columbia and Peru: 1985 - 1999, Demography, Vol. 40, No. 4, pp. 659 - 673
  • Coleman, P.K.; (2006) Resolution of unwanted pregnancy during adolescence through abortion versus childbirth: Individual and family predictors and psychological consequences, Journal of Youth Adolescence, Vol. 35, pp. 903 - 911

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