However, the facts are obvious-teenaged females are highly influenced by many social issues, but those with the lack of strong parental guidance, sex education, and positive mass media are more likely to have a premarital pregnancy.  ... This is a useful source because it shows how teenage pregnancy is a more of a social issue than physical or emotional issue. ... Even the federal government has found teenage pregnancy to be a social issue in which lack of parental guidance, sex education, and positive media has been recognized. ... They have found that the increase in teenage pregnancy has ...

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A public policy is a possible solution to all social problems. ... The movie, Fifteen and Pregnant that aired on Lifetime focused on this issue. ... Between all the confusion with her family issues she was feeling alone and out of place and this guy made her feel like she belonged. ... Her mother felt like it was her fault, she felt through the divorce and the family issues her daughter might have felt neglected and turned to the comfort of a guy. ... The social problem focused on in the film is, teenage pregnancy. ...

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Abortion has long been an extremely controversial issue within Australia and throughout the world. ... There is a stigma surrounding this issue that simply cannot be escaped. ... There are many underlying social issues that need to be taken into consideration when contemplating such controversial matters as abortion. ... It is questionable as to whether abortion is essentially an issue of law or one of morals and ethics. ... Socially, the justification for the laws regarding abortion in Australia is perhaps unknown. ...

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There are numerous personal decisions we all make that are influenced by social patterns. Failure to make the right decision can often lead to criticism, punishment, or severe social marginalization. ... As widespread as the issue of abortion is, there is insufficient research on factors that contribute to the decision to terminate or continue a teenage pregnancy. ... In Australia, subjects such as mathematics, and sciences are very often socially defined and associated with academic advancement. ... Overall I have discovered that there are a number of social influences that sway women to elec...

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The Sociological Imagination is fully grasped when one can separately understand the difference between private troubles and social issues. Personal troubles are an individual's own experience of a social problem, whereas social issues are related to social, culture and historical life of people. ... "Grasping the relationship between biography and history to the world society" – which means that it contributes to the realisation of being part of a larger social circle and the link between the personal explicit trouble to public issues. ... An issue or public issue means i...

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Also I know that Ryerson's social work program is the largest undergraduate school for social work in Ontario and that is another reason why I picked this program. There is a social issue in which is very important to me is teenage pregnancy. ... Teenage girls getting pregnant to some nations it is just a contemporary social issue, but to me it is a very big issue. ... The reason why I think this is an important issue is that it seems to me most of the girls that considered sex is just a momentary thing in which it is for entertainment or for the sake of it. ... That is why I think tee...

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If the option of abortion is taken from women, it poses a large issue, according to the European Journal of Social Sciences "When an adult, either a woman or a man, states that they are not ready or interested in having a child, it might have a disproportionate future implication. ... In the concerns regarding politics and abortion, abortion is not the only issue women face. ... Most States in which abortion is illegal, they as well do not offer proper reproductive healthcare and prenatal care facilities that can be accessible to all social classes. The lack of reproductive healthcare, pr...

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Abortion poses moral, social, and medical dilemmas. ... The conservative stance on this issue is that the fetus is a person from the moment of conception. ... There are many underlying issues that must be worked out before one can answer this question. ... In further debating the issue with my coworker, the potentiality issue came up; an issue I had not previously considered. ... Abortion is an extremely complex and highly debated public issue that has consumed much of the American social and political arena in the late twentieth century. ...

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However, there are many social issues that people are not aware of that are affecting our economy, our growth as a nation, and our youth's future. One of these pressing issues of today is the rate of teenage pregnancy. ... Some of these factors seemed quite obvious, while some others I would not have thought to be an issue. Overall, the main issue appears to arise from the absence of using birth control and contraceptives. ... As a social worker, one needs to think about what is best for the individuals being affected. ...

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In this movie, a legal issue comes across, when a gym teacher has sex with several of his female students. ... This issue is statutory rape, which is sexual activity between two people which would otherwise be legal if one person wasn't a minor. ... Another legal issue in this movie "Teachers" is theft. ... Jurell, a social science teacher (played by Nick Nolte), talked with his pregnant student, when she told him she wanted an abortion. Without thinking of what legal issues this might stir up, Mr. ...

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Surrogate Motherhood: Potential Conflicts Cannot Be Ignored Anton van Niekerk and Liezl van Zyl aim to address the moral issues of surrogacy by comparing it with prostitution. ... They claim that surrogacy is not similar to prostitution: women's reproductive labor is distinguished from other forms of physical labor because the product is a child, not an object, and it involves social and psychological process of both the surrogate and the commissioning parents in expecting the child (346,347). ... However, since surrogacy is still a controversial issue, we can never overlook potential ...

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SB 528 directs the Department of Social Services to collect data on parenting and pregnant youth. ... Knowing this information is necessary to understand the breadth of this issue and to develop appropriate policies to address it. ... I plan to use social media to help insure the passage of this very important bill. ... While this has long been the case, the issue of parenting youth in foster care has become more pressing with the implementation of extended foster care in California to age 21. ... Second, Senator Yee's legislation puts into place a voluntary, specialized case conference...

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Why is this huge social issue? ... Our project is to aware society this issue and why is it continuing to occur. ... For a teenager, they must sacrifice their social life and most importantly their education. ...

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But, I do support the reproductive rights of women, to make their own decisions concerning the issue of abortion. I believe this is a very personal moral issue and that the government should not be involved in our decision-making regarding these rights. ... They have already made reproductive rights a primary target of their ultra-conservative social agenda"(A31). ... In their survey, the right to legal abortion was a strong third among voter concerns, which was ranked among such important issues as social security and public education (A31). ... I strongly support the reproductive rig...

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Contemporary bio-ethical issues we face today include abortion and euthanasia. ... Abortion is a central ethical issue as individuals have differing opinions about it. ... Thus meaning that abortion is an constant issue in New Zealand. ... An important Catholic Social Teaching is the respect for human life. ... The dignity of a person gives them undeniable rights such as 'political, social, legal and economic rights' (Yellow book), this makes human dignity one of the most important principles of Catholic Social teaching because if our own rights are violated our human dignity is de...

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In fact, adverse circumstances such as financial issues, health problems, and social affair cause abortion to be most women's last resort, even though they are not willing to undergo abortions (Reardon). ... Plus, she will probably have trust issues towards society and this is what we called as a social problem. ... Forced abortion should be revised and all parties involved should think of the pros and cons in order to avoid controversial issues. ...

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The behavioral issues caused from prenatal drug and alcohol exposure affect more then just the afflicted individual. ... According to social psychiatrist, Dr. ... ADHD can also linger into adulthood causing issues in the work place and difficulty developing healthy relationships. ... The effects from prenatal cocaine exposure can cause abnormal arousal regulation, emotional development issues, and lapses in executive functioning. ... If the child is born while the mother is serving time in prison or jail, then the child will be placed in a safe home by Social Services. ...

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The issue of abortion is an issue that has, and will always, deeply divide the beliefs of people in the United States, and all over the world. ... Abortion has always been an issue in the world. ... Physicians and social workers also joined in the movement for abortion reform (Segers and Byrnes, 3). ... Social workers also became involved, when they, too, saw the consequences not only physically, but emotionally, on the women (Segers and Byrnes, 3). ... In conclusion, abortion is a very touchy issue for many people. ...

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One of the most common issues that affect adolescents" behavior is concern with peer approval. Both in sexual behavior and in all other areas of behavior, teenagers strive to attain social acceptance by their peers, which is common at the stage in which teenagers are. ... This motivation for acceptance within a social group can be a very strong driving force that pushes teenagers to start having sex as the notion of "since everyone is doing it" has been instilled in their heads. ... Also related to the issue of teenage sex due to peers is the lack of good communication between parents and teen...

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Abortion is an important social issue, as it would encompass a woman freely giving up on her baby by killing the little creature. ... Morality and ethics are the key points to this social problem. ... Abortion, is a social issue that would be considered wrong in any moral aspects and medical concepts. ... Although, it is the woman's moral right to decide on this issue, the concern is whether it is a valid reason or not. ... According to Mary Gordon into the problem, she definitely makes a very good point in: "A Moral Choice" where states: "The moral discussion of abortion c...

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This is a very serious issue. ... But it is not yet a separate social being that should have separate social rights. ... Although the issue still rises about whether abortions are safe or moral, women should have the choice on whether or not they choose to have a child or wait for a better time into their life to do so. ...

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Abortion The issue of abortion has mostly been concern about morality as the idea expressed in Joel Feinberg's article. ... Abortion is a much deeper and broader issue than just about to kill an innocent human being. ... Rights defined as the social interaction between rational people, and allow society to exist without the initiation between rational people. ... Despite various situations, teenage girls are more likely to have abortion than those female who are married, so it is important that teenagers must to be educate correctively about the issue of sex, pregnancy, and abortion i...

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Trying to pinpoint this social problem amongst adolescents that researchers interview, they found similarities. ... Poverty is the issue at the core of the teen child-bearing problem. ... This issue is becoming a statistic among our minority groups such as African American and Latinos. ... This whole issue of teen pregnancy stems from a lack of morals and a lack of self-esteem. ... Nearly 40 percent of the 15-19 year olds in this country are poor or low income , and many grow up in economic, social, and ethnic ghettos. ...

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In the world that we live in today, there are many issues that affects us and shape our lives. It is the society that we live in that influences our beliefs and values upon certain issues. ... Many women are split in between this issue because there are so many reasons why a woman would have the reason to have an abortion, so it's a difficult issue to decide on. ... Abortion is not only a major issue in the United States, but it is an important issue around the whole world. ... There are risk factors that result from this procedure such as physical and psychological injury including post...

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Researcher David Reardon, from the Elliot Institute for Social Sciences Research, found that 28 percent of women who had abortions later attempted suicide, and over half of these women did so more than once. ... We see that there are several things to consider when addressing the issue of abortion. ...

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