Unlike former years, individuals do not need to restrain themselves from engaging in sexual pleasures, since pregnancy has become preventable. ... Hence, the intention of preventing premarital sex, has shifted a step ahead to preventing premarital pregnancy. ... Naturally, with the existing stigma attached to premarital pregnancy, marriage provides lovers the opportunity to explore the subsequent domain of forming a family unit of their own. ...

• Word Count: 492
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In a working-class family, unplanned pregnancies were relatively common; being raised by Catholic grandparents, her goal was to strive and succeed out of poverty. A very determined girl, Alicia stayed above the influence of the the impoverished women - whom tend to be sexually active at a younger age, have high rates of teen pregnancies, and school dropout - that she was surrounded by. ... Alicia was very determined to not repeat familial patterns such as alcohol abuse, sexual abuse, early pregnancy, lack of culture, lack of respect, amongst other things. ...

• Word Count: 1743
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Many purity reformers, particularly the suffragists, also advocated the notion of voluntary motherhood, the right of wives to abstain from sexual intercourse to avoid unwanted pregnancies and assert some control over family size. ... In fact, statistics show that the number of premarital pregnancies rose from a 10 percent rate of occurrence in the mid-nineteenth century to 23 percent in the years between 1880 and 1910. ... Some also advocated contraception for married couples to enhance sexual activity while avoiding unwanted pregnancy. ... These women often asked her for the secre...

• Word Count: 2720
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"The Free Women of Petersburg, Status and Culture in a Southern Town, 1784-1861", was written by Suzanne Lebsock in 1984 and won the Bancroft Prize in 1985. Lebsock focuses on Petersburg, Virginia between 1784 and 1860 to recount the status of women in society, and how that status changed. She als...

• Word Count: 587
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the end, lacking any sense of romantic idealism or true love, she swindles him into marrying her by claiming a supposed pregnancy, a well though deceit, carefully planed by her friends and herself. ...

• Word Count: 682
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Research has shown that youth from single parent families often have higher rates of problem behavior like substance abuse, aggression, school dropout and teenage pregnancies for girls and this may result from limited financial resources in the family, lack of time and parental guidance from the parents and from peer pressure where children make decisions without consulting their parents. ...

• Word Count: 876
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Around the world, same-sex marriage is slowly gaining a foothold. To date, five countries including: The Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Norway, and Sweden allow the marriage of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. Civil unions, registered partnerships, and domestic partnerships are availabl...

• Word Count: 2402
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Australian Bureau of Statistics states that, "Two or more persons who live in the same household and are related to each other by blood marriage or adoption", are what is considered a family. Alternatively, Moria Eastman says the meaning of family is, "whatever the family means by family is wh...

• Word Count: 1079
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

They would range from easy transition to cohabitation, managing budgets, birth control methods and prevention of sexual transmitted diseases, the changes within a woman during and after pregnancy, managing anger and other types of emotions, and raising children, just to list a few. ...

• Word Count: 1245
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Flea appears deceptively casual in its composition and style but is infact a complex argument. Sentences such as "And this, alas, is more than wee would doe" epitomise the misleading colloquial language. When commencing the first stanza there are insinuations of a conversation continuing, althou...

• Word Count: 1246
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Popenoe begins by pointing out that paternal absence is a major force lying behind many of the social problems that have been on the rise over the past thirty years, including crime and delinquency, premature sexuality and teenage pregnancies, deteriorating educational achievement, depression, substance abuse, and the growing number of women in poverty. ...

• Word Count: 1217
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Her recollections detail her spiritual journey through a life that was anything but ordinary, fraught with business failures, the difficult pregnancy and birth of her first child, bearing thirteen subsequent children while desiring chaste living; enduring temptation, struggling with lustful urges, and a difficult marriage to a demanding husband. ...

• Word Count: 1321
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Much research has been done to identify the factors that contribute to marital dissolution. Identifying these predictors of divorce can help better understand marital relationships and can help prevent divorce. The causes of divorce discussed in this paper include, equity of housework and its r...

• Word Count: 3231
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Other studies have shown that children of divorced families are more likely to use alcohol, cigarettes and drugs, more likely to begin sexual activity earlier, to give birth to a child as a teenager, and to have more pregnancies outside marriage than children of non-divorced parents (McIntosh et al, 2008). ...

• Word Count: 1376
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the early 1970s, studies reported that, since 1945, 99 percent of the homes in the United States had acquired at least one television set (Mander, 1978, p.24). Television has now become the leading vehicle for disseminating information to Americans. Although many people place little importance on television's implantation of the images in their brains, research has shown that humans slowly turn into whatever images they carry in their minds. The images they see on television are conveyed to their brains by light; and the proof that these images are ingrained in their brains is demon...

• Word Count: 1703
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In this essay I will convey information of how society plays an important role of kinship and how gender have an impact and blinded many societies. I will also make use of grand parenting style and to give good intention to how children see grandparents. I will discuss how families are ignorant and ...

• Word Count: 1494
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For instance, a recent study of father absence on girls found that girls who grew up apart from their biological father were much more likely to experience early puberty and a teen pregnancy than girls who spent their entire childhood in an intact family. ...

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"So Long a Letter," was a story written in the form of a letter, that discussed the trails and tribulations that Ramatoulaye and her friend Assioute encountered after their husband wedded for a second time. With Senegal moving into a time of modernization, woman begun to have a new outlook on their ...

• Word Count: 1737
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

When a child enters the world, it is a cultural expectation in the United States that they will be nurtured, clothed, sheltered, nourished, and held accountable for by their parents until the reach the age of 18. Unfortunately, society is filled with hardships and disappoints that often occur which ...

• Word Count: 1849
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

He further emphasizes that marriage in the United States is already delicate enough and accepting gay marriage will lead to "rapid erosion of the family life" (Colson, 104) and also it will lead to social problems in the society such as school problems, teen pregnancy, crime. ...

• Word Count: 2042
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate