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Teenage Parents Teen Mothers
1,275 words... trusted to reward individuals who step outside the normative schedule. This may lead her to center all of her energies on motherhood in an attempt to reap some of the benefits given to women in her same cultural status. According to Keith Scott, author of Teenage Parents and Their Offspring, "among mothers aged thirty-five to fifty-two, those who were fifteen or younger at their first birth have an average of three children more than women who were at least twenty-four when they became mothe...
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Neural Tube Defects Spina Bifida
1,692 wordsHow Folate Can Help Prevent Birth Defects If you plan to have children some day, here's important information for the future mother-to-be: Think folate now. Folate is a B vitamin found in a variety of foods and added to many vitamin and mineral supplements as folic acid, a synthetic form of folate. Folate is needed both before and in the first weeks of pregnancy and can help reduce the risk of certain serious and common birth defects called neural tube defects, which affect the brain and spinal ...
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Surgical Abortions Clinical Trials
1,724 wordsContraceptive Research Picture: Feminist Majority Foundation In addition to its use in terminating unwanted pregnancies, MIFEPRISTONE (formerly known as RU- 486) also may be effective in treating a range of serious diseases and medical conditions, many of which particularly affect women. Yet American clinical trials for most of these uses have come to a standstill due to anti-abortion politics Available to women in many countries (but currently not in the U. S. ), mifepristone (formerly known as...
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Teenage Mothers Teen Mothers
2,557 wordsPregnancy Among Teens All societies possess social standards that control the sequence and the tempo of important life occurrences. Frank Furstenberg in, Unplanned Parenthood introduces this notion of social standards through what he terms the normative schedule. According to Furstenberg normative schedules are, prescribed life courses, it is the timing of life events (Furstenberg pg. 2). Normative schedules vary from society to society. They are precise structures imposed by cultural rules and ...
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Low Self Esteem Wall Street Journal
1,360 wordsAlthough the overall rate of teen pregnancy has been declining, the rates have remained high for teens that are most vulnerable. The great majority of Americans believe that teen pregnancies are a serious national problem, indeed a problem that is the major component of what is thought to be national moral decline. However, what causes these teens to become pregnant at such a young age? A large body of research has identified a number of factors that underlie teen sexual and contraceptive behavi...
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