Controversy Teenage Pregnancy Probability Chances Reduced Education Essay

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¶ … controversy teenage pregnancy probability chances reduced education good parenting. Choose a technology create a presentation technology. Technologies combined, adding audio clips a slide presentation. PSA: Teen pregnancy: Myths and Facts

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(Boy and girl making out in a car)

Girl: (pulling away) I'm not on the pill. I'm not so sure about this.

Boy: Hey, you know you can't get pregnant on your first time.

Voice-over: Fact -- you can get pregnant your first time. (Cut to picture of tired girl rocking baby in the middle of the night) (Teen sex -- pregnancy myths, 2012, Web MD).

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(Mother, walking in a supermarket, talking to the camera)

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She's an honor student and she would never do anything without discussing it with me first. She's focused on her future.
(Cut to picture of girl and a guy making out with a pile of textbooks in front of them)

Voice-over: Fact -- "3 in 10 teen girls in the U.S. will get pregnant at least once before age 20. That's about 745,000 teen pregnancies each year" (Teen pregnancy, 2012, Stay Teen). That number includes girls of all levels of intelligence, ethnic groups, and areas of the country.

Getting pregnant can put a girl's academic future at risk. "Less than half of teen mothers ever graduate from high school and fewer than 2% earn a college degree by age 30" (Teen pregnancy,…

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Abstinence-only education does not lead to abstinent behavior, researchers find. (2011)

ScienceDaily. Retrieved: http://www.sciencedaily.com / releases/2011/11/111129185925.htm

Teen pregnancy. (2012). Stay Teen. Retrieved:

http://www.stayteen.org/teen-pregnancy
http://teens.webmd.com/sex-pregnancy-myths


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