Teenage Childbearing and Personal Responsibility: An Alternative View.
My article talked about teenage childbearing and who responsibility the child should be. If you asked someone about teenage childbearing they would point out all the negative aspect to it. Teenage Childbearing is bad on the teenage mother, the unborn child who may not have a fair chance in life, or society because of the social cost. My article deals with the welfare reform act of 1996. The 1996 welfare reform act suggested that the government put extra requirements on teen mothers who receive welfare benefits, or just eliminate their benefits all together. .
The 1994 Ex- President Clinton administration proposal included the provisions that every teenage mother who receives welfare of applies for welfare must finish high school of join a jobs program. The teenager also would have to live with a responsible adult (the system prefer this adult to be a parent), or and establish or cooperate in establishing paternity. Any one under the age 23 had been required to search for employment during the first twelve weeks on welfare if they could not find employment in the twelve weeks they would have to go through a job-training course. Between 1985 and 1990, the public cost of births to teenage mothers under the aid to families with dependent children program, food stamps, and Medicaid program was estimated at 120 billion dollars.
Teenage childbearing is believed to result in other negative outcomes for the children of teen mothers, and also the long-term poverty or welfare dependence. Other negative outcomes are child abuse or neglect by the teenaged mothers, the child is more likely to engage in antisocial acts such as crime in their adolescence years or young adults, low birth weight, lower achievement or academic success for these children. There was research done to determine the connection between teenage mothers and their children being antisocial as adults.