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“Teen Pregnancy”
Mellissa Harrold
DeVry University
“Teen Pregnancy”
There are so many teens in this world that have gotten pregnant and wish they had not gotten pregnant. There have been statistics done that show that over the last seventeen years there has been a birth rate drop (Wilson,CNN 2014). When MTV put on the show 16 & Pregnant, Teen Mom 1&2 the birth rates have dropped 5.7% (Wilson, CNN 2014). Since the show aired (2009) teens are seeing how hard it is to go to school and have to support a baby at the age of 16. Some teens on the show have their parents help to support the baby but there are a few that have no body to help them. When telling teens about sex it shouldn’t be a doctors responsibility to talk to the teen …show more content…

Introduction
A. Topic
1) How do we keep teens from getting pregnant?
2) We as parents need to talk to our teens about sex so they don’t go to other people to get information. We need to be the ones to have the talk to our teens about sex. If we don’t give the teens the right information when it comes to sex then how are we going to keep them from getting pregnant? There are so many myths that teens don’t know are myths that they share with other teens and they’re mostly wrong. Teens need to be more informed.
3) I was talking to my daughter the other day and she told me that “you can’t get pregnant while you are on your period.” I told her that you could get pregnant and I looked up one of my references and read it to her and she couldn’t believe what I had read to her. I want her and other teens to understand that you can get pregnant and it is too easy to get pregnant.
B. Context
1) I want a teen to know how easy it is to get pregnant.
2) I had a family member tell me that you couldn’t get pregnant while you were on your period. I was a teen that got pregnant while I was on my …show more content…

I feel that they need to know about the information that I put in my paper.
2) My secondary audience is going to be for adults and parents of teens. I am hoping that with the information I present in my paper will help them to talk to teens about teen pregnancy.
3) When I have my paper done they will agree with what I have in the paper. Some people may not agree with what I have written. They my say that it is not true and that you can’t get pregnant while on your period.
II. Evidence
A. http://stayteen.org/myths
B. http://cnn.com/2014/01/13/health/16-pregnant-teens-childbirth/

C. I still need to get more myths, and some statistics to show how teen pregnancy had dropped in the past few years. I also need to get some information on medical risks on teen pregnancy.

III. Conclusion
I want to make sure that, teens and parents are on the same page when it comes to talking about sex. I would like to be able to say that my paper has helped a lot of teens from getting pregnant like the MTV shows 16 & pregnant, Teen Mom 1&2.

IV. References (must be correctly formatted according to the APA Publication Manual).
http://stayteen.org/myths

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