When we see parents with their children around, we often might ask ourselves: are they married? Sometimes it is difficult to distinguish if parents with children are married because they might act differently in a certain way in public. For example, in the preschool that I work in, I just found out that one child’s parents are living together but are not married. They said that their child was an accident; therefore, they believe that it should be better to live together instead of getting married. When the child’s mother told me this, I was shocked because I thought that they were since I saw a ring in both of parent’s ring finger. In the journal “Are Married Parents Really Better for Children”, Parke mention that “childbirth and childbearing outside of …show more content…
It is difficult when a woman is pregnant, and then suddenly having trouble with taking care of her and the baby, especially if her partner walks out of her life. Additionally, as young as 12-year-old, relationships grow rapidly especially when they see their peers and/or friends have boyfriend/girlfriend. When they reach to their teenage years, they believed that it is fine to be sexually active. Then before they know it, they are pregnant because they did not wear any protection. According to the article “Marriage, Births, and Fertility”, De Vaus (2002) reported that “in 1971 two-thirds of births to teenage mothers were to married teenagers. A considerable proportion of these marriages would have been due to pregnancy”. It is highly recommended for parents/guardians to watch our children, and the importance about safe sex. Without supervision from adults, our children especially adolescent will be parents at a young age. Although there are people raising children without being married, they should know the consequences behind when couples are raising children without being
In Wade F. Horn’s article “Promoting Marriage as a Means of Promoting Fatherhood,” Horn discusses how having a child and being married is better for children because the father is more involved in the child’s life. Kathryn Edin and Maria Kefalas’s “Unmarried with Children,” on the other hand, takes the reader through Jen’s story about getting pregnant at a young age and deciding not to marry the father of her son. While both sources make appeals to emotion, reason, and character, Edin and Kefalas’s article makes more successful appeals and thus is the stronger argument.
Even though many teenagers are not expected to be involved in such risky behavior, many are. According to Guttmacher Institute, “70 percent of teenagers have sex before their 19th birthday” (Jester), which shows the massive participation in such activities. However, many methods of prevention, including birth control, have been in the working toward the progress in decreasing unplanned pregnancies in teenagers. Having an open environment with multiple options makes the decision about counteracting an unplanned pregnancy significantly easier. Also, some forms of birth control can be given to teenagers without parental consent (A Wake-Up Call), which ultimately leaves the important decision up to the teenager who has been involved in risky activities, not the parents. Due to the increasing access to birth control, and other methods of preventing pregnancy, statistics show that pregnancies and births among teenagers is in fact decreasing (A Wake-Up
... is the direct effect of teens and young adults not being educated on the things that come with sex and the consequences of their actions. Teens need sex education because the knowledge will give them an insight on the subject and help them think about the proper precautions to take in order to be a responsible person insuring that they use the right contraception and/or abstinence in order for them not to have children as a teen. Other factors play into why teens become pregnant as well. In the results for my interviews, parent/child relationships should be established and upheld as a relationship that is strictly parent and child. Teens who do not have a true parent/parents in their lives to care about the important thing that contribute to the child’s well being such a becoming pregnant at a young age, tend to make decisions that are not healthy in their lives.
First, the pregnancy without readiness because the teenagers has sexual relation “premature” because nowadays communication is easy and comfortable. It makes teenagers get to know it easier and sometimes the women it may be deceptive in a way that is not good, for example indecent, fraudulent. Especially the pregnancy has not ready is in school because the women may be problem in social is drop out of school (Growing up global, 2005 p.540). Because of poor academic and the lack opportunities in economic not only economic but also is good occupations and social is good the children of mother have not finish it becomes problem side working, such as cheap labor in the factory. Perhaps someone who is pregnant in school has an abortion in the school, it helps open opportunities for continued study in the future.
The family is the main agent of socialisation and an institution. (Giddens, 2013:339). As children, we rely on our family to fulfil basic needs. We all need guidance, and more importantly we also require nurturing to become healthy adults. The definition of family varies across cultures. However, the family is sensitive to change and, therefore, not static. The structure of the family has changed, and culture and society are now more accepting of the fact that people now choose to cohabit, rather than marry. (Haralambos & Holborn 2009:3). In 2013, there were nearly 1.9 million lone parent households with dependent children in the United Kingdom; a figure which has steadily increased over the years (Office of National Statistics 2013). The rise in lone parents has brought about greater acceptance of pregnancies that do not have to involve marriage although acceptance is not the concern. A study suggests that….
Sex before marriage has always been a major issue. Teen pregnancy seems to double yearly: with no sign of stopping. Some teens use contraceptives and birth control incorrectly. They think pregnancy just can’t happen to them. In a lot of cases their embarrassed to buy protection or just simply unsure of how to use them. Many unplanned pregnancies happen beca...
For thousands of years until today, the best way to officially be the partner of someone is through marriage. People have practiced marriage for thousands of years. Many cultures see marriage as the best method to celebrate the love of a couple until death tears them apart. “Marriage establishes and maintains family, creates and sustains the ties of kinship, and is the basis of community” (Rowe 2). Marriage is a concept bigger than ones happiness and it is the basic for creating a peaceful home for the family. According to Rowe, “This sense of home requires the dynamic participation of both women and men--the women to mother and the men to father--to fulfill the daily roles of teaching, nurturing and protecting children” ( 2). Parents have an obligation to take care for children, so that when they grow up they are able to become a person who is strong enough to support himself. But there are different opinions whether raising a child should be shared equally between parents. One group thinks that it is essential for a child to grow up with the love and care of both parents. Meanwhile, others believe that child raising should be shared in a way that suits the family. While single parents argue that even without one parent they can give their children the needed love and care.
It was found that adolescents living with a single parent are more likely to have had sexual intercourse than those living with both biological parents. For girls, the experience of sexual abuse in the family as a child or adolescent is linked to increased risk of adolescent pregnancy. In addition, adolescents whose parents have higher education and income are more likely both to postpone sexual intercourse and to use contraception if they do engage in sexual intercourse. The quality of the parent-child relationship also plays a huge role in the decisions associated with sexual behaviours.
As a matter of fact, one of the most alarming social issues of the 21st century is teenage pregnancy. Teenage pregnancy is commonly known as conception among younger women of the age 13-19 years. In 2008, the media made a lot of story about a 12-year-old boy who impregnated a girl in UK. Astonishingly, the case was not as seldom as many thought. Evidently, in 2008, there where four births with fathers at the age of 13 years (ONS, 2008).
First of all, it is the many younger teenagers who are inexperienced that get in to trouble like teenage pregnancy. The experience that is so needed is supposed to come from their parents, but that doesn’t happen because, the parents don’t want to talk about the sex issues. With the strict parents the experience is hard to ...
Teenage pregnancy is an important and a widespread problem in India revolving to public health studies. Although, in India minimum age of marriage for a female is 18 and male is 22, the law is not been strictly followed by the society. It is now leading to serious social and medical troubles such as maternal and child health problems. Data of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS)-3 discovered that 16% of women, aged 15-19 years, have already started childbearing. Most of the teenage mother in India has a joint family background. They are not allowed to take any decisions according to their desires. Their life is been shaped by family me...
Since the 1970s, many countries in the world the problem of adolescent sexuality and first sexual experience at young age appeared. To make matters worse, the trend of adolescent pregnancy became increasingly serious. From the fact sheet of World Health Organization, there are about 16 million adolescent girls giving birth every year – most in low- and middle-income countries. Among them, an estimated three million girls aged 15-19 undergo unsafe abortions every year. In low- and middle-income countries, over 30% of girls marry before they are 18 years of age; around 14% before the age of 15 and complications from pregnancy and childbirth are a leading cause of death among girls aged 15-19 years.
One wrong step and some 15 years girl get pregnant. One wrong step and the society will mark you as the anathema. Still the teenage pregnancy is prominent aspect of many different countries in this world Teenage pregnancy means that some female is under age of 20 years when her pregnancy period is just ending. It is a serious issue which cannot be ignored both in developed as well as undeveloped countries. It creates great difficulties for teenage women. More than 50% of women cannot imagine problems which would affect their own lives. The baby born to the teenage mother has risk of the low birth weight risk of the pre-maturity and the risk of anemia along with other health issues to mother and child, mother suffers because of her body is not developed for supporting another life. In most of cases baby develops weakness and laziness that prevails throughout their lives.
In a modern world where many people embrace the idea of liberation widespread pre-marital is not so surprising. With that, the main goal of the research is to provide information to the readers about the different methods of family planning such as traditional or behavioural method, oral contraceptives, intrauterine device, sterilization and surgical procedures and barrier methods to reduce the cases of unwanted pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases and mortality due to unsafe sexual
However, this is different in developing countries from which teen pregnancies are highly contributed by the financial constraints, sexual or domestic violence, media through the exhibition of phonographic and sex. Together with others, some of these factors may lead to dropping out of schools by the pregnant teenage as she is required to play the role of mother to the unborn baby. Termination of the lady’s education process leads to lack of job skills making it hard for the mother to live as she can’t find and keep a job. As a result of this, poverty becomes prevalent as the mother tries to support herself and the baby. According to researches, teenage pregnancy has a negative effect to the life of the child especially in the social aspect.