Sex Stuff, Sexual Health, Sexual Answers
Overview Understanding your sexuality and sexual health is important during your teenage years. More than 12 million cases of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs)...
Cultural Problems Faced by Teenage Parents
While teenage parents no longer face total ostracism, there still is a stigma attached. Teenage parents can face social and economic barriers as well as problems with their families. The cultural factors that influence and contribute to teenage...
Programs to Help Teen Mothers
The teen pregnancy rate in the United States is higher than in any other developed nation, with 34 percent of teenage girls becoming pregnant before the age of 20. Raising a child at such as young age can place a teenage mother under extreme...
Facts on Teen Sexuality
It isn't that sex is a bad word or a forbidden act. It is one of the most natural instincts we have. However, it is something that teenagers need to understand and control. All the authority figures are telling them to say no, however, most of...
Disadvantages of Teenage Pregnancy
Teen pregnancy is life changing. While most teen pregnancies are unplanned, even a planned pregnancy has risks and potential complications. While teen pregnancy rates have declined over the past 10 years, 22 of 1000 high school students still get...
Sex at School
A recent study reported that according to some teenagers, sex on school property is more frequent than adults might imagine. Many of the single sex schools--schools that have either boys or girls--have been turned into coeducational schools where...
Information on Teen Abortions
When an unexpected pregnancy arises, a teen is forced to make a complicated decision. Should she keep the baby, put the baby up for adoption or elect to have an abortion? The choice to have an abortion--not uncommon in the United States--saves a...
Teen Pregnancy Prevention Options
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report that there were 435,436 births to teenage mothers (15 to 19 years of age) in 2006. Nearly two-thirds of the pregnancies in which the mother was younger than 18 were unintended. Both...
Risks for Teen Mothers
Teen pregnancy rates have declined significantly since the 1990s according to the National Institutes of Health, or NIH, and of those pregnancies, more than half occur to women who are 18 or 19. Developmental rates, both physical and emotional,...
Benefits for Teen Mothers
The rate of teen pregnancy increased in 2006 for the first time in 10 years, up 3 percent, according to a January 26, 2010 report by the Guttmacher Institute, a research and public education firm. "After more than a decade of progress, this...
First Signs of a Teenager Being Pregnant
There are several early signs that a teenager may be pregnant. According to Family First Aid, the United States has the highest rate of teen pregnancy of any industrialized country. The National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy states that by...
Reproductive Health Education
Reproductive health education has been controversial in spite of the lifelong impact of reproductive decisions. Some feel this education should be provided privately. Others point to diseases, unwanted pregnancies and the right to be educated...
Health Risks for a Pregnant Teenager
In 2006, according to the Guttmacher Institute, 750,000 females under the age of 20 became pregnant. This represents about seven percent of young girls in the United States between the ages of fifteen and nineteen. California, Texas and New York...
About Teenager Pregnancy
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that 435,436 babies were born to mothers between 15 and 19 years old in 2006. Most of these were unintended births and the rates of teen pregnancy were found to be higher among Latino,...
The Effects of Sports on Emotional Health
While it's easy to quantify the physical effects of sports on health, it's more complicated to determine how playing tennis, golf, soccer or baseball effects the psyche. Fortunately, a number of individuals and institutions have researched this...
Teen Mothers & Infant Mortality
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a child born to a teen mother is more likely to have behavior problems, chronic medical issues and lower proficiency scores upon entering kindergarten. He is at risk of being...
Effects of Low Family Income on Children
The National Poverty Center at the University of Michigan reports that 14.1 million children lived in poverty in the United States, as of 2008. Nineteen percent of children under 18 live in poverty. The official poverty level varies according to...
What Are the Long-Term Effects of Teenage Pregnancy?
During 2006, there were 435,436 births to teenage mothers in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Unfortunately, the teen pregnancy, birth and abortion rates are considerably higher in the United States...