After researching various statistics, I found that premarital pregnancy is quite prevalent in teenagers throughout the world. ... For the most part, when one sees teenagers raising children, we often think that the teen has been raped or is too mature for their age. ... The birthrate for young teenagers aged 15-17 fell 8 percent from 2000 to 2001, reaching 25.3 births per 1,000 teenagers. ... About 900,000 pregnancies occur each year among American teenagers aged 15-19. ... It shows the struggles teenagers have to go through to raise their children. ...

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Moore announces that he is going to allow the prom to happen and asked all the parents to allow their kids to go. ... The parents had to approve the books the teenagers could read and the music they could listen to just as the whites had to chose what rules were going to be put in place as the Jim Crow laws. ... If the teenagers were caught dancing, listening to music or reading books that had not been approved they would have to go to court and possibly go to jail. ... They would have to go in front of the court and possibly go to jail. ... Ren had to go in front of a court and justify the ...

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Native American teenagers face a lot of challenges because we are still trying to recover everything that we lost when we were originally thought to be the inferior race. ... When any teen goes through being looked down upon in school because of their race it doesn't just affect them emotionally, but it affects them mentally and physically as well. ... But as Natives we go through a lot more than any other race in school, and that makes for more high school drop outs than any other race. ...

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Many teenagers engage in sex at a very age for the wrong reasons. This is a problem that society is trying is to fix but it is not working because rates are continuing to go up. ... Although many girl's become pregnant and guy's get them pregnant it isn't primarily because of their individual and family character because that is not fixed it's other things that influence them to go about their decision. ... Teenagers never realize that they have so much ahead of them and that things change. ... If society works in a whole they can change the values of the children growing...

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An on going debate has continued regarding the notification of parents on abortion. ... Information must be obtained on the psychological effects of abortion on teenage mothers before any federal law goes into existence on teen abortions. ... In the argument that the teenager should have to tell the parents because she will receive good and informative advice, support, and understanding I think is not true because if the parents were like that from the beginning and offered that kind of love, the teenager would have no need to go out and look for some other sort of forced love (sex). ...

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This has now led to some schools having to start dispensing free condoms and contraceptives to students who go to the school's health clinics. ... 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. ... Also related to the issue of teenage sex due to peers is the lack of good communication between parents and teenagers, and the wanted independence by teenagers. ... When there is no good communication between parents and teenagers, teenagers turn to their peers for advi...

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For example, say a teenager walks into a music store to buy a CD. The CD the teenager wants to buy has two versions. ... What do you think the teenager is going to buy? ... The CD the teenager wants to buy has two versions. ... What do you think the teenager is going to buy? ...

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That's the idea of a good time for the American teenager. In Mexico teenagers will go out with a big group and go dancing. ... You will never see this at clubs that teenagers go to here. ... I wish that American teenagers will be able to experience what I have had in this different community. It will change a teenagers thinking so much, and for the better. ...

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Since that law was passed, teenagers have become dedicated to finding a way to have the legal drinking age lowered back to the age of eighteen. ... The first argument that teenagers have against the drinking age being twenty-one is their enrollment for the draft. They believe that if they are able to go to war and die for their country, then they should be able to buy a six-pack. ... If the majority of teens are going to use their eligibility to vote as a reason to lower the Magnuson-2- drinking age, then the majority of them should actually go vote when it is time. At eighteen, most t...

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(Segal 194) Many American teenagers use more than one substance, whether it is using multiple drugs or a combination of drugs and alcohol. ... Adolescent substance abuse usually starts with the teenager drinking alcohol with his/her friends or family. ... While going through adolescence, children experience all kind of emotions and feelings and they often do not know how to deal with it. ... This goes into the category of trying to fit in because the teens that can fit in with his/her peers will more than likely feel better about themselves because now their insecurities are blanketed by the g...

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This goes to show that the rate of accidents for the most part among drivers is not related to age but instead skill level. ... Taking extracurricular activities and being with friends on teenagers' own time is an essential part of growing up. Teenagers in NYS should be able to drive at age fifteen to satisfy their needs and even wants of life. ... Being granted the opportunity to learn independence would let young teenagers show that they can be responsible. ... Life as a teenager daily consists of moving around and being with peers. ...

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I got out of bed and went up to tell my mom I did not want to go to school. ... I was going to be a kid for as absolutely long as possible. ... Of us 5 women here today, almost 2 of us would have been pregnant as a teenager. ... About 80% of young people have sex as a teenager. ... So why are so many teenagers sexually active? ...

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Now that we're well into the 21st century, one would think that that the majority of Americans have become more accepting - open minded - to men, women and teenagers who are homosexuals. ... There will continue to be hate and discrimination against homosexuals unless the public, particularly teenagers, are educated. Teenagers use derogatory terms for gay people all of the time, completely unaware of the effect on those surrounding them. This provides a hostile environment in schools for gay teenagers that is almost unbearable. ... However, in doing so they are allowing blind discriminatio...

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Teenagers have not developed enough maturity, experience, or judgment skills to obtain a license at sixteen. ... From the age of sixteen to eighteen, there is a lot of development going on in the brain. ... In addition to immaturity and inexperience, teenagers are easily distracted and are typically influenced by peer pressure. ... Many states have instituted graduated licensing programs which limit driving freedom, such as when and with whom the teenager can drive. ... Teenagers have been living for 16 years without a license. ...

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The media does not generally emphasize the responsibilities and risks of sex and I believe that it plays a major role in the high rates of pregnancy among teenagers in the United States today. ... Having a baby as a teenager makes it much harder for a them to reach their goals in life, such as finishing high school, going on to college, getting a good job, or getting married when they grow up, and it also poses additional challenges to the child as well. ... Being a teenager myself, I have seen 2 friends of mine become a teen mother and father. ... And if something goes wrong, there is the P...

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Teenagers are engineered to rebel. ... If the drinking age was lowered to an age where seniors can have a Corona at their graduation party or before they go off for boot camp (which they are allowed to do at the ripe age of eighteen,). The more something is prohibited, the more teenagers make is popular or cool to do. The idea of teenagers' 'risk taking' behavior need is based on the psychiatric definition of brain development. ...

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Teenagers in the south tend to interact with one another in different ways than other teens throughout the country. ... To go along with this friendliness people in the south are not as self-conscious as others throughout the country. ... One way that teenagers interact with one another differently than the rest of the country is through parties. ... Square dancing is also another thing that southern teenagers like to do. ... These interactions by teenagers are another way that one might have to get used in order to live in the south. ...

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In fact one out of three teenagers will be in an automotive accident before age 18. ... The people who think the age should be left the same or lowered are often the teenagers just below the actual age limit who want their license to go drink or party or other illegal things which is what causes all the accident anyways and makes insurance so expensive. ... If you support safety for the youth of the nation along with the other victims of motor vehicle accidents I ask you to go to your local library and get the address for the state legislature and send them a letter telling your side of the ...

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My Commitment to America's Future In spite of all of the health warnings, teenagers continue to get hooked on tobacco even though they all know that it is bad for them. It is therefore logical to conclude that a shallow knowledge of the health risks is not enough to convince teenagers not to smoke. ... Teachers go over the long term effects such as lung cancer and emphysema to try to scare their students into not smoking. ... Something should be said about all of the lifestyle changes smokers go through, such as only being able to smoke in certain areas in public. ... Although I...

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Although the onset of pregnancy may occur in any teenager, some teens are at higher risk for unplanned pregnancy than others. ... Teenagers are participating in the new world of sexual freedom. ... With more and more teens having casual sex, the risks of pregnancy goes up. ... Teenagers who come from poor neighborhoods are at a high risk for pregnancy. ... More than half of all welfare recipients were teenagers when their first child was born. ...

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The three leading causes of stress in a teenager's life include school, family, and friends. ... Teenagers receive tremendous amounts of homework each night leaving them with no extra time to relax. ... Teachers often do not give teenagers enough information on projects causing teens not to complete the work. ... Then when teens ask to visit a friend parents will not let you go for any little insignificant reason they can think of. ...

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Those who use meth often go days without eating or sleeping. ... Teenagers particularly are using the drug more today. The drug has become easier for teenagers to get than alcohol and is affecting all teenagers. ...

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When you are a teenager, you deal with an abundance of stressful things on a day-to-day basis, bullying is a very common aspect for a teenage. ... All bullies are different in the methods they choose to harass the person they're going after, and most of the time, the bully does not strike alone. ... Teenagers have consumed most internet media sites making them more liable to be open to a cyberbully. ... It is a terrible thing to know that kids in today's society, think it is okay to go online and talk bad about another kid and get away with it because "it is easier to get away w...

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No matter how you look at gambling, it's not going away. ... If people have the right to go out and buy a lottery ticket and possibly win over $180 million, they should have the right to go to a casino, relax and play a game of cards. ... The National Institute of Mental Health notes that "addiction" to gambling is growing fastest among teenagers. Suicide rates are twice as high among teenagers with gambling problems, and teenagers are nearly two-and-one-half times as likely as adults to become compulsive gamblers. ... If someone lost a few million at a casino, people think he/she is...

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Research has shown that at age 18, teenagers are realizing a greater level of responsibility thereby showing a higher level of maturity. ... Please go in your mind to being a male and just turning 18 years old. ... You then go off to war and die for your country. ... Making alcohol legal would open up a large window to back up the Drink Responsibly Code by not forcing teenagers to drink and attempt to hide it by driving themselves. ... We live in a society that immediately forces teenagers out of their homes and into either college or work. ...

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