It has been termed a period of great risk to healthy development takanishi, 1993, p. Unplanned teenage pregnancy research project part c statistics analysis and information team. Teenage pregnancies chapter 12 maternalfetal nutrition. Building an evidence base to inform interventions for. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Preventing teen pregnancy by avoiding risk exposure. Teenage pregnancy and parenting, especially at a young age, is typically viewed as personally and socially undesirable. Research on interventions that reduce the rates of teenage pregnancy, and that improve the health, education, and social functioning of those.
Increased sexual activity, increased fertility, increased intended pregnancy rates, and decreased abortion in the united states can theoretically explain these. The birthrate of unmarried american women aged 15 to 19 years quadrupled from 1960 to 1992, reaching a peak in 1991. Department of health and human services office of adolescent health teen pregnancy prevention program, developed a joint funding opportunity through which grantees worked to implement and test an approach involving. Girls must be able to make their own decisions about their bodies and futures and have access to appropriate healthcare services and education. Even though teen pregnancy rates are at an alltime low, 3 in 10 american teen girls still experience an unintended pregnancy. Written by kate phake, ulla kann and mbulawa mugabe. Review of interventions in the field of prevention of adolescent pregnancy. Teenage pregnancy is associated with poorer fetal and maternal outcomes including higher.
Nutrient reference values for australia and new zealand. List of books and articles about teenage parents online. Studies referenced in zachry 2005 found there are documented instances of teenage pregnancy being called an epidemic or out of control by the media, when birth rates for this population were actually at their lowest in decades. Jul 02, 2015 lisa drakefords top 10 ya books about teen pregnancy from tess of the durbervilles to melvin burgesss junk, teen pregnancy has been dealt with in all kinds of fictional ways over the years.
Teenage pregnancy, childbirth and parenthood is a widespread problem in the developing countries but is not an exclusive problem to them. The effects of teenage fatherhood on young adult outcomes. Teenage pregnancy comes with several hardships for the mothers parents, the mother herself and the child. Using one 1 previous study cited by the authors, discuss how the findings of this past study is relevant to the current study.
Assessment of teen pregnancy prevention interventions bartleby. In spite of this decline in teenage pregnancy over the years, approximately 820,000 34 percent of teenage girls in the united states become pregnant each year. Global perspectives, issues and interventions, author. Countries such as the united kingdom and the united states have high teenage pregnancy rates relative to other countries. Absent from the moral, political and medical debate on teen pregnancy is the perspective from teens. Sex, culture and needs is a refreshing guide to a highly topical subject area.
Learned its lesson and cut teen pregnancy in half by main, douglas newsweek, vol. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading the teenage pregnancy prevention guide. This bibliography was generated on cite this for me on sunday, march 1, 2015. Hence the success of some teen pregnancy prevention and parenting programmes, which provide both motivation and means to escape poverty and delay parenthood. Given the inability of communities to agree on the parameters of why teen pregnancy is occurring, local teen pregnancy prevention interventions can appear. Poor fetal growth in the developing world is largely attributed to widespread maternal undernutrition. Implementation of communitywide teen pregnancy prevention. Teenage pregnancy fulltext pediatric and adolescent.
Teenage pregnancy, also known as adolescent pregnancy, is pregnancy in a female under the age of 20. Teenage pregnancy macleod major reference works wiley. Teenage pregnancy increases when girls are denied the right to make decisions about their sexual and reproductive health and wellbeing. Despite the recent downward trend in teen birth rates, the rate of teen births in the united states is much higher than any other industrialized nation. Mar 14, 2014 the frequency of teenage pregnancy among the youth is alarming and has become more or less a fact of life in many nations of the world including philippines. Focusing on articles published between 1996 and 2011, we searched 5 academic databases pubmed, psycinfo, academic search premier, eric, and social work abstracts with search terms capturing the program models and settings e. Health disparities in adolescent pregnancy and childbirth. The authors take an holistic approach to the issue, and encourage professionals from the health service, education and voluntary sectors to work together to achieve the goals set out in the latest report from the social exclusion unit department of health, 1999. It is my privilege to present the report of this study teenage pregnancy in south africa, with a speci. Finally, we provide a summary of recommendations for interventions that address teenage pregnancy. Teenage pregnancy is considered a pregnancy for women under the age of 20. What youth need from families and communities to succeed jan. One social problem associated with the family is teen pregnancy. List of books and articles about teenage pregnancy.
Crank by ellen hopkins, not my daughter by barbara delinsky, bumped by megan mccafferty, a grownup kind of pretty by. Unfortunately, there exists little, if any, consistency in the success of such initiatives. Permanente early start programme in california helps women stop substance abuse. Lisa drakefords top 10 ya books about teen pregnancy. Most families can work with teens to prevent unintended pregnancies. Teen mothers have a higher risk of being financially unstable and receiving more public assistance. Home books maternalfetal nutrition during pregnancy and lactation teenage. Complications of pregnancy include eclampsia, premature birth, and erythroblastosis fetalis rh incompatibility. Department of human services south australia retrieved on 10 january 20.
It is not just the pregnant teenagers problem either, but may involve up to three generations of family members and a host of other significant relationships. These are the sources and citations used to research teenage pregnancy. Teen pregnancy is not a public health crisis in the united. Pregnancy can occur with sexual intercourse after the start of ovulation, which can be before the first menstrual period menarche but usually occurs after the onset of periods.
It is often the result of scarring from a sexually transmitted disease. Programs addressing early pregnancy began in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Selected fulltext books and articles why the teen birth rate keeps dropping. Jul 22, 2009 the reevaluation of early pregnancy as problematic means that, in some respects, teenage pregnancy has been made and unmade as a problem. Initially, interventions included homes for unwed mothers and federal aid for. However, some families require the formation and help from intervention programs.
If you are wondering whether or not youre pregnant, your mind is probably racing with questions. This remains both culturally deleterious and personally destructive. Statistics and programs congressional research service summary in 2014, u. References intervention now to eliminate repeat unintended. Teenage pregnancy other bibliographies cite this for me. Teenage pregnancy has lots of effects on educational development of teenagers who are victims of this phenomenon. Most of the decline in the teenage pregnancy rate over the past decade can be attributed to increased contraceptive use, with a small contribution from decreased sexual activity. Teenage pregnancies chapter 12 maternalfetal nutrition during. The teenage pregnancy prevention guide kindle edition by gerst, ellen.
The positive health trends and overall improvement in health status among the us population cause health professionals, human service providers, educators, and policy makers to be encouraged about the fitness of our nation. Seeking to reduce teen pregnancy and births in communities with rates above the national average, the centers for disease control and prevention, in partnership with the u. Whats more, some 85 percent of these pregnancies are unintended. Email citation teenage pregnancy and parenting, especially at a young age, is typically viewed as personally and socially undesirable. Global perspectives, issues and interventions helen s. Its common to feel confused, scared or overwhelmed. This is critical given that early pregnancy is a choice for some young women. In wellnourished females, the first period usually takes place around the age of 12 or. Sexual references are present in almost every type of programme and. Findings from the implementation of evidencebased interventions for teen pregnancy prevention in a multicomponent communitywide initiative suggest that communities can support evidencebased intervention delivery through access to training and technical assistance and reach large numbers of youth by working directly with school systems. It integrates the guidance and tools for program planning, implementation, and evaluation and is designed for the teen pregnancy prevention field. Global burden of disease and injury and economic cost attributable to alcohol use and alcoholuse disorders.
Focusing on the period from the late1990s to the present, teenage pregnancy examines who is likely to have a baby as a teenager, the consequences of early motherhood and how teenage pregnancy is dealt. References adolescent trauma training center uscattc. Adolescence has often been construed as a difficult period in life, consisting of storm and. Birth rates for teens aged 1519 years, by stateunited states, 2009. Teen pregnancy is a social problem not resolved in developing and some developed countries. Ectopic pregnancy, in which the fetus begins to develop outside the uterus, often in a fallopian tube, is another complication. Objectives to determine the impact on teenage pregnancy of interventions that address the social disadvantage associated with early parenthood and to assess the appropriateness of such interventions for young people in the united kingdom. One of the key topics of my paper is to educate teens as a preventative measure to teen pregnancy and this report supports that approach. The majority of low birth weight lbw in developing countries is due to intrauterine growth restriction iugr, the causes of which are complex and multiple, depending primarily on the mother, placenta, fetus, and combinations of all three.
Teenage or adolescent pregnancy is noted as a major public health and demographic problem with medical, psychological, social and demographic implications. List of books and articles about teenage pregnancy online. The study analyzes both the prevalence of teenage pregnancy and its determinants. The economic impact of illicit drug use on american society. Reference list teen pregnancy home teenage pregnancy. After hardcover by amy efaw goodreads author shelved 51 times as teenpregnancy avg. The process is called promoting sciencebased approaches to teen pregnancy prevention using getting to outcomes psbagto and is described in this document. The teenage pregnancy rate in the united states is the second highest among 46 industrialized countries after russia. Rehm j, mathers c, popova s, thavorncharoensap m, teerawattananon y, patra j.
Teenage pregnancy childhood studies oxford bibliographies. Teenage pregnancy is a multifaceted problem that requires multifaceted intervention. A group of studies examining the percentage of unmarried mothers placing their babies for adoption reveals a trend. Assessment of teen pregnancy prevention interventions. While teen pregnancy may be considered a problem for society, it may less of a problem for themselves jewell, tacchi. Interventions to improve nutritional intake of teenage pregnant women. It was seen that intervention programs impacted teens attitudes toward teen pregnancy in a positive way.
According to children having children, a report by the state of the worlds mothers published by save the children in 2004, one in every ten children is born to a mother who herself is still a child subsaharan african countries tend to have the highest. Teenage pregnancy is commonly identified in the medical literature as a problem for society that requires intervention. To reduce the rates of teen pregnancy, programs must either improve teenage contraceptive behaviors, reduce teens sexual activity, or both. Implementing evidencebased teen pregnancyprevention. The teenage pregnancy prevention guide kindle edition by.
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