Teen Pregnancy: Community Intervention
Problem:
The Red Springs Community faces serious challenges, including poverty, crime, unemployment, and high dropout rates among their students. The main issue I would like to discuss is teen pregnancy. Despite the decline in babies being born to adolescent mothers nationally, teen pregnancy still remains a problem. Teen mothers are less likely to complete high school, less likely to get married, and more likely to depend on welfare than their peers. Teen pregnancy robs teens of their childhood and their futures as productive adults. It also robs their children, and their children's children. Many programs have been implemented to help prevent teen pregnancies. The Department Health and Human Services have implemented Abstinence Education and other programs in schools to promote abstinence from sexual activity until marriage. The problem with this is that too many times parents are not involved in these educational programs. What about the......
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