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PBL1 Week 2: Cradle to Grave: is teenage pregnancy a problem? Why?,…
PBL1 Week 2: Cradle to Grave: is teenage pregnancy a problem? Why?
school could be limited on funding to fund about Teen pregnancy (Emma)
poverty surrounding schools e.g funding
could do funding activities to avoid the poverty line in schools so they can provide education about how teenagers can avoid early/teen pregnancies (Emma)
Trivedi, D 2003 An Update on Teenage Pregnancy. (2005), 5(1).
https://doi.org/10.5580/9ff
provide children with a baby for a week or longer e.g. infant simulator dolls – Light Female. This will help make them decide if they want children or not in early adolescents (emma)
Expectations of women through generations
giving birth out of wedlock (Tasha)
Acceptable age to be pregnant (Tasha)
Teenagers might be rebelious due to religion and or strict parent/rules. Family dynamics(Emma)
Views around sexuality from family members so teenagers rebel?/attachment issues with parents?
Social background/ ethnic backgrounds/ religious backgrounds (Tasha)
Arranged marriages in certain religious cultures (Tasha)
may not believe in abortions - ethical reasons and or normal views. (Emma)
Teenage Pregnancy
Statistics in the media show that in 2009, 43,200 infants have been born by young women aged 15-19 (Kyle)
Lack of education? (Tasha)
Socioeconomic Backgrounds? (Tasha)
Advances in healthcare mean a child born to a young mother is more likely to receive the health support they need to survive for longer compared to a couple of generations ago (Tasha)
Access to contraception (Tasha)
They don't know about free contraception from clinics or too scared to go on thier own. (Emma)
Could leave someone in poverty and or crowded house situation
Bad conceptions around council houses and benefits (Tasha)
Media representations of mothers(Tasha)
Jeremy Kyle etc (Tasha)
Mothers comparing behaviours seen on TV shows which can be detrimental to child's developmental milestones (Tasha)
Comparing Generations (Tasha)
Perfect families for example try to be more like other families (Emma)
Bad press for families if they have children at a young age. (Emma)
Looking at cultural views and their views on teenage pregnancies (Emily)
Akella, D., & Jordan, M. (2014). Impact of social and cultural factors on teenage pregnancy. Journal of Health Disparities Research and Practice, 8(1), 3. Example- study shown that African American women who fell pregnant tended to chose early motherhood over education and career
arranged marriages? (Tasha)
Teenage Pregnancy trends?(Emma)
They could see others having children at a young age, so they feel the need to have one themselves(Emma)
Teenagers could see it as an oppotunity to move out from their parents after school so they quickly get a house e.g. benefits, child benefit for x amount of years after they leave school(Emma)
Conceptions in England and Wales - Office for National Statistics, 2020
unprotected sex, the teenager could get STD'S because of unprotected sex(Emma)
Are teenerages paying attention in school/embarassed/fob it off when sex education is covered in school? (Emma)
mental health surrounding teenage pregnancy (Emma)
Could get left out of friendship groups because of having a baby early on. This could have a massive impact on their mental health
post-natal depression (Emma)
Suffering in silence and too scared to tell anyone (Chloe)
poverty if they are a single parent and this will have long lasting effects on childrens and mothers health (Emma) (Larson,C,2007)
Trust issues with telling someone and they tell everyone she is pregnant(Emma)
Childhood abuse/ sexual violence and teenage pregnancy (Emily)
Could have been a victim to rape, however doesn't want the child to be blamed for it (Emily)
Roosa, M. W., Tein, J. Y., Reinholtz, C., & Angelini, P. J. (1997). The relationship of childhood sexual abuse to teenage pregnancy. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 119-130. (Emily)
Evolutionary Explanation
Natasha Anthony, Kyle Mauchline, Emily Coates, Chloe Rickard, and Emma Whitfield: Group 2
Learning outcome 1:
Learning about sex education in an academic setting
Learning outcome 2:
Identifying contraception and thinking of ways it could be free. Making it more accessible for teenagers.
Learning outcome 3:
Evalute the effectiveness of the different preventions