why is it an issue? historical perspective economical issue background factors effects on...
TRANSCRIPT
![Page 1: Why is it an issue? Historical Perspective Economical Issue Background factors Effects on Mothers and Their Children The Influence of the](https://reader038.vdocuments.us/reader038/viewer/2022103005/56649db35503460f94aa3384/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
![Page 2: Why is it an issue? Historical Perspective Economical Issue Background factors Effects on Mothers and Their Children The Influence of the](https://reader038.vdocuments.us/reader038/viewer/2022103005/56649db35503460f94aa3384/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
Why is it an issue? Historical Perspective Economical Issue Background factors Effects on Mothers and Their Children The Influence of the Media
![Page 3: Why is it an issue? Historical Perspective Economical Issue Background factors Effects on Mothers and Their Children The Influence of the](https://reader038.vdocuments.us/reader038/viewer/2022103005/56649db35503460f94aa3384/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
We will use some of the steps we have learned in order to assess the problem of Teen Pregnancy.
Define the problem * Gather evidence * Identify causes * Evaluate a policy Develop solutions * Select best solution http://www2.maxwell.syr.edu/plegal/ppae/ppae1.html
![Page 4: Why is it an issue? Historical Perspective Economical Issue Background factors Effects on Mothers and Their Children The Influence of the](https://reader038.vdocuments.us/reader038/viewer/2022103005/56649db35503460f94aa3384/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
Teen pregnancy: a crisis over the past 50 years
› society has shifted the moral standards that direct sexual behavior.
› increasing rates of sexual activity among teenagers, and decreasing rates of marriage.
![Page 5: Why is it an issue? Historical Perspective Economical Issue Background factors Effects on Mothers and Their Children The Influence of the](https://reader038.vdocuments.us/reader038/viewer/2022103005/56649db35503460f94aa3384/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
1950’s: less than a third of first births to teen mothers were conceived out of wedlock.
![Page 6: Why is it an issue? Historical Perspective Economical Issue Background factors Effects on Mothers and Their Children The Influence of the](https://reader038.vdocuments.us/reader038/viewer/2022103005/56649db35503460f94aa3384/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
1980’s: two-thirds of all Caucasian teen mothers were unmarried.
97% of African American teen mothers were single at the time of conception in the 1980’s.
![Page 7: Why is it an issue? Historical Perspective Economical Issue Background factors Effects on Mothers and Their Children The Influence of the](https://reader038.vdocuments.us/reader038/viewer/2022103005/56649db35503460f94aa3384/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
Approximately 750,000 to 850,000 teenage women, ages 15 through 19, become pregnant in the US every year.
77% of children born to teen parents will receive a high school diploma.
Children of teen mothers more likely to experience adolescent childbearing, homelessness, juvenile delinquency, and incarceration.
![Page 8: Why is it an issue? Historical Perspective Economical Issue Background factors Effects on Mothers and Their Children The Influence of the](https://reader038.vdocuments.us/reader038/viewer/2022103005/56649db35503460f94aa3384/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
Federal government spends approximately $15 billion to help families that began with a teenage birth yearly.
80% of unmarried teen mothers end up on welfare.
![Page 9: Why is it an issue? Historical Perspective Economical Issue Background factors Effects on Mothers and Their Children The Influence of the](https://reader038.vdocuments.us/reader038/viewer/2022103005/56649db35503460f94aa3384/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
![Page 10: Why is it an issue? Historical Perspective Economical Issue Background factors Effects on Mothers and Their Children The Influence of the](https://reader038.vdocuments.us/reader038/viewer/2022103005/56649db35503460f94aa3384/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
Inherited disadvantage
Family headed by a single parent
![Page 11: Why is it an issue? Historical Perspective Economical Issue Background factors Effects on Mothers and Their Children The Influence of the](https://reader038.vdocuments.us/reader038/viewer/2022103005/56649db35503460f94aa3384/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
increased psychological problems lower graduation rates inconsistent employment reliance on social assistance and welfare higher poverty rates Increased marital instability more frequent health problems
![Page 12: Why is it an issue? Historical Perspective Economical Issue Background factors Effects on Mothers and Their Children The Influence of the](https://reader038.vdocuments.us/reader038/viewer/2022103005/56649db35503460f94aa3384/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
![Page 13: Why is it an issue? Historical Perspective Economical Issue Background factors Effects on Mothers and Their Children The Influence of the](https://reader038.vdocuments.us/reader038/viewer/2022103005/56649db35503460f94aa3384/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
Teens are bombarded with messages that SEX AND PREGNANCY HAVE NO RISKS, AND NO CONSEQUENCES.
![Page 14: Why is it an issue? Historical Perspective Economical Issue Background factors Effects on Mothers and Their Children The Influence of the](https://reader038.vdocuments.us/reader038/viewer/2022103005/56649db35503460f94aa3384/html5/thumbnails/14.jpg)
![Page 15: Why is it an issue? Historical Perspective Economical Issue Background factors Effects on Mothers and Their Children The Influence of the](https://reader038.vdocuments.us/reader038/viewer/2022103005/56649db35503460f94aa3384/html5/thumbnails/15.jpg)
Written By: Margaret Bechard
Published by Simon Pulse, 2003
Focuses on the life of a teenage father› Central Question:
Should he give Max up for adoption?
![Page 16: Why is it an issue? Historical Perspective Economical Issue Background factors Effects on Mothers and Their Children The Influence of the](https://reader038.vdocuments.us/reader038/viewer/2022103005/56649db35503460f94aa3384/html5/thumbnails/16.jpg)
Written by Ruth Pennebaker
Published by Henry Holt and Co., 2001
Main character Anne is forced to live in a group home for pregnant teens › Ultimately gives her
child up for adoption
![Page 17: Why is it an issue? Historical Perspective Economical Issue Background factors Effects on Mothers and Their Children The Influence of the](https://reader038.vdocuments.us/reader038/viewer/2022103005/56649db35503460f94aa3384/html5/thumbnails/17.jpg)
Written by: Anna Fienberg
Published By: Laurel Leaf, 2002
Main character lives in a dysfunctional family › Chooses abortion
![Page 18: Why is it an issue? Historical Perspective Economical Issue Background factors Effects on Mothers and Their Children The Influence of the](https://reader038.vdocuments.us/reader038/viewer/2022103005/56649db35503460f94aa3384/html5/thumbnails/18.jpg)
When asked if Young Adult novels that portrayed Teen Pregnancy and/or parenting made it look glamorous many said no. › One surveyed student said that after reading
one of these books she “Never wanted to have kids”
![Page 19: Why is it an issue? Historical Perspective Economical Issue Background factors Effects on Mothers and Their Children The Influence of the](https://reader038.vdocuments.us/reader038/viewer/2022103005/56649db35503460f94aa3384/html5/thumbnails/19.jpg)
![Page 20: Why is it an issue? Historical Perspective Economical Issue Background factors Effects on Mothers and Their Children The Influence of the](https://reader038.vdocuments.us/reader038/viewer/2022103005/56649db35503460f94aa3384/html5/thumbnails/20.jpg)
Premiered September 8, 2007 by Fox Searchlight Pictures
16 year old high school student gives her baby boy up for adoption to a single adoptive mother.
![Page 21: Why is it an issue? Historical Perspective Economical Issue Background factors Effects on Mothers and Their Children The Influence of the](https://reader038.vdocuments.us/reader038/viewer/2022103005/56649db35503460f94aa3384/html5/thumbnails/21.jpg)
17 Again (2009): Comedy film from New Line Cinema.
Fifteen and Pregnant (1998): Based on a true story, by Lifetime Television movies.
Mom at Sixteen (2005): Lifetime Television movies.
Saved! (2004): Teen comedy film with religious satire.
Where the Heart Is (2000): by 20th Century Fox.
![Page 22: Why is it an issue? Historical Perspective Economical Issue Background factors Effects on Mothers and Their Children The Influence of the](https://reader038.vdocuments.us/reader038/viewer/2022103005/56649db35503460f94aa3384/html5/thumbnails/22.jpg)
Premiered on ABC Family on July 1, 2008.
15 year old gets pregnant from her first sexual encounter. Took place at a school event. She has help from multiple people; her parents, sister, the baby’s father, her fiancée, and friends.
![Page 23: Why is it an issue? Historical Perspective Economical Issue Background factors Effects on Mothers and Their Children The Influence of the](https://reader038.vdocuments.us/reader038/viewer/2022103005/56649db35503460f94aa3384/html5/thumbnails/23.jpg)
90210 (2008-2009): CW spin-off of Beverly Hills, 90210.
16 and Pregnant (2009): MTV Reality Series
Reba (2001-2007): one of the CW’s top rated sitcoms.
One Tree Hill (2003-2009): Aired on the WB, now called the CW.
![Page 24: Why is it an issue? Historical Perspective Economical Issue Background factors Effects on Mothers and Their Children The Influence of the](https://reader038.vdocuments.us/reader038/viewer/2022103005/56649db35503460f94aa3384/html5/thumbnails/24.jpg)
![Page 25: Why is it an issue? Historical Perspective Economical Issue Background factors Effects on Mothers and Their Children The Influence of the](https://reader038.vdocuments.us/reader038/viewer/2022103005/56649db35503460f94aa3384/html5/thumbnails/25.jpg)
Celebrities within a small limited society are an easier “real” text for people to read
Examples› local school celebrities› local sports players› local dance, or music
performers
Celebrities within a large society are a more complicated text, are inaccessible
Examples › Nationally known› Singers› Actors/actresses
![Page 26: Why is it an issue? Historical Perspective Economical Issue Background factors Effects on Mothers and Their Children The Influence of the](https://reader038.vdocuments.us/reader038/viewer/2022103005/56649db35503460f94aa3384/html5/thumbnails/26.jpg)
Media has many social, economic purposes to keep celebrities as they are:
A real example →→→
“Jamie Lynn Spears”
![Page 27: Why is it an issue? Historical Perspective Economical Issue Background factors Effects on Mothers and Their Children The Influence of the](https://reader038.vdocuments.us/reader038/viewer/2022103005/56649db35503460f94aa3384/html5/thumbnails/27.jpg)
A social reflection of how celebrity culture might affect real life.
Several girls decided to get pregnant together, influenced by celebrities
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4198422n&tag=related;photovideo
![Page 28: Why is it an issue? Historical Perspective Economical Issue Background factors Effects on Mothers and Their Children The Influence of the](https://reader038.vdocuments.us/reader038/viewer/2022103005/56649db35503460f94aa3384/html5/thumbnails/28.jpg)
Worksheet5: "Developing public policy solutions"(HTML)
Spend a few moments now using the template below to generate some ideas on how the problem of Teen Pregnancy can be resolved in our communities.