Hypothesis on teenage pregnancy
On teenage pregnancy: people who become parents at a young age tend to be lower in social/economic status. Students who are encouraged from an early age to challenge themselves through study and education might minimize the impact of involving themselves in a situation where teen pregnancy might be a reality. This does not say that "honors students do not have teen pregnancy issues," but rather suggests that education can be...
This does not say that "honors students do not have teen pregnancy issues," but rather suggests that education can be a variable in this equation. The overriding issue in teen pregnancy for the most part is how students, particularly girls, wind up in such a scenario. It might also be interesting to track the pattern of education leading up to pregnancy.
These might be questions that could initiate a great deal of debate within the teen pregnancy question. For example, are children from abused homes who are victims of abuse or assault themselves more likely or less likely to engage in behavior which could result in teen pregnancy? Here the hypothesis will be that people from a particular type of social and economical background are more likely become young parents, and that people from such backgrounds are also likely to have lower economic and social status in their later objectives and motivations of people.
Here the hypothesis could be that people who are more focused on career objectives of improving their social and economic status are less likely to indulge in kind of behavior that leads to incidence of becoming young ality traits of young parents. For example, one of the hypothesis could be that young parents are more likely to have short-term rather than long-term orientation in life. The hypothesis may be further extended to the proposition that long-term orientation people are likely to achieve higher economic and social and economic burden of parenting.
The hypothesis in this case could be that young parents have lower economic and social status because of the time and money they are forced to incur on their children at younger age, which leaves them with less resources for pursuing activities that contribute to improvement in social and economic acceptability. Here the hypothesis could be that in some way the society has some prejudices against young parents, create barriers in their social and economic typing the name of a book or author:Teenagers who become parents at a very young age tend to be lower in social/economic levels all... A ng an accepted ing teenage pregnancy norms and their effect on resource ad data and study pal investigator(s):Stefanie bailey sity of colorado : mollborn@ period: 04/28/2005 - 05/06/ study focuses on perceptions of teenage pregnancy and on one process by which pregnancy norms may affect teenage parents futures.
Transition norms such as pregnancy norms are central to life course theory but have not been measured satisfactorily among adults. First, do pregnancy norms in the united states vary by the age and sex of the parent-to-be? Second, do pregnancy norms affect how much material help family members are willing to provide to teenage parents?
Results show that pregnancy norms are more strongly negative when the prospective parent is a teenager rather than an adult, and respondents who report stronger norms against pregnancy are less willing to provide resources to prospective esis 1: respondents will report more strongly negative pregnancy norms when the prospective parent is an adolescent rather than a young esis 2: the strength of the negative pregnancy norm will vary by the gender of the prospective parent, with stronger norms for esis 3: family members who report more strongly negative pregnancy norms will provide fewer resources such as money, housing, and child care to the prospective parent as a form of mental manipulations:The short vignette manipulates the age and gender of the prospective parent:Condition 1: 16-year-old ion 2: 16-year-old ion 3: 26-year-old ion 4: 26-year-old dependent variables:For analysis 1: unmarried pregnancy norm (respondent's level of embarrassment at the prospect of their unmarried hypothetical daughter getting pregnant/their hypothetical son getting a woman pregnant). Their reporting of pregnancy norms and resource provision are based on this hypothetical s from multivariate analyses show that hypothesis 1 is supported: respondents report significantly stronger negative norms when the prospective parent is a teenager compared to a young adult (p<. Hypothesis 2 is not supported: there is no association between the gender of the prospective parent and the strength of the reported pregnancy norm.
Respondents do not, for example, report more strongly negative norms against the pregnancy of an adolescent girl compared to others. A second set of analyses finds support for hypothesis 3 across all four measures of resource provision (general help, living at home, babysitting, and financial support): as pregnancy norms become more strongly negative, respondents are less willing to provide general help (p<. This study's findings provide support for the theory's idea that teenage parents have violated transition norms about pregnancy--that there are stronger norms against teenage pregnancy than adult pregnancy.
If the amount of resources available to teenage parents influences their outcomes in life, then this would specify one process by which violating transition norms leads to worse life rn, stefanie. 2005 mar;59(3): effect of dislike of school on risk of teenage pregnancy: testing of hypotheses using longitudinal data from a randomised trial of sex c1, allen e, strange v, copas a, oakley a, stephenson j, johnson information1public and environmental health research unit, london school of hygiene and tropical medicine, keppel street, london wc1e 7ht, uk. Ractstudy objective: to examine whether attitude to school is associated with subsequent risk of teenage pregnancy.
To test two hypotheses that attitude to school is linked to pregnancy via pathways involving young people having "alternative" expectations or deficits in sexual health knowledge and : analysis of longitudinal data arising from a trial of sex education. Examination of associations between attitude to school and protected first sex, unprotected first sex, unprotected and protected last sex, and pregnancy, both crude and adjusting in turn for expectation of parenting by age 20, lack of expectation of education/training at age 20, and sexual health knowledge and g: schools in central and southern ipants: girls of median age 13. Years at follow up results: in unadjusted analysis, attitude to school was significantly associated with protected and unprotected first sex by follow up 1, protected first sex between follow up 1 and 2, unprotected last sex, and pregnancy.
These associations remained after adjusting for socioeconomic status and for expectation of parenting, lack of expectation of education/training, and various indicators of knowledge and confidence about sexual sions: dislike of school is associated with subsequent increased risk of teenage pregnancy but the mechanism underlying any possible causal link is unlikely to involve "alternative" expectations or deficits in sexual health knowledge or : 15709083 pmcid: pmc1733029 doi: 10. Gov'tmesh termsadolescentadolescent behavior/psychology*contraception behavior/psychologyenglandfemalehealth knowledge, attitudes, practicehumanslongitudinal studiespregnancypregnancy in adolescence/psychology*risk-takingschool health servicesschools*sex education*sexual behavior/psychology*grant supportg9626797/medical research council/united kingdomlinkout - more resourcesfull text sourceshighwireeurope pubmed centralovid technologies, centralpubmed central canadaother literature sourcescos scholar universemedicalpregnancy - genetic alliancechild behavior disorders - medlineplus health informationteenage pregnancy - medlineplus health informationpubmed commons home.
