Keeping the baby or not is a hard decision to make as a teen parent who does not know anything about how to be a parent. With the lack of help with their parents, the teen parents are struggling as to whether or not to keep the baby. As far as keeping the baby, the teen could either have the child and keeping it for themselves, have the child and give it away to someone who cares and is financially stable, or have an abortion.
This article is important for my research because it shows how much of a struggle it is to make the decision of having the baby. The struggle of having a baby is either for themselves, for someone else, or to have an abortion to avoid having a child. With this difficult decision comes a huge amount of support and love with peers. The support will help the teen grow as a person to push through the hard time of making this decision.
Colleen O’Brien Cherry, Neale Chumbler. “Building a ‘Better Life’: The Transformative Effects of Adolescent Pregnancy and Parenting - Colleen O'Brien Cherry, Neale Chumbler, Jennifer Bute, Amber Huff, 2015.” SAGE Journals, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2158244015571638.
The article shows how to give the baby a better life before it is born and after it is born. With this, it is helpful because teens who are pregnant sometimes are a single parent. Single parents tend to have more of a struggle being financially stable because they do not have someone to lean on. Also, it shows how much of a struggle it is to get a diploma too in order to finish school.
This article may support my writing because it gives a perspective of how single parents have to do everything themselves. Though there is a lot of evidence that shows teen parents who have a significant other to lean on, single parents are not talked about enough. Single parents in this article have major evidence that shows all the tasks that they have to do in order to maintain surviving in the world. Without the minimal support and the hard work single parents have to do, they would not be able to keep the baby that was born.
The resources they may help with teen pregnancies are listed within this website. Not only does it discuss the resources that are available, it has ways of how to avoid getting pregnant such as birth control.
This article is such a helpful resource because it creates a safe space for teens to get the help they need. The source benefits teens to reach out for help without the parents, the significant other or friends know about it. Without this type of information, teens would be struggling more than they are right now.
Harding, Jessica F, et al. “Supporting Expectant and Parenting Teens: New Evidence to Inform Future Programming and Research.” Maternal and Child Health Journal, Springer US, Sept. 2020, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7497376/.
The pregnancy assistance fund which draws together the perspectives of researchers and practitioners helps improve health, social, educational and economic outcomes. The article demonstrates how to handle doing education, finding work, and earning family-supporting wages. There are also companies who support and provide grants to help support teens with their struggle.
This article is important because there are certain sections that go into depth with what teens go through with pregnancies. The sections that are listed are; programs can improve outcomes for teen parents, diverse and flexible program models can support teen parents, partnerships are useful for meeting the multifaceted needs of young parents, hiring and training staff is crucial for strong implementation, and much more. With these topics, they will help with my paper because I can go into more detail with different ideas.
Teen pregnancy occurs with how early their mother had their first child. With the young age of pregnancy that the teen may have can cause defects in the child and their own body. The children may have a lower birth weight, higher neonatal mortality, while the mother goes into depression.
This research article goes into depth with the cause and effects with how pregnancies occur. Although it is not all the teenagers fault, it gets passed down from their own mother. There are statistics with how much percent is with each. It may be the mother’s fault because children see their parents as their influence. With the mother’s as their influencers, children tend to follow their parents footsteps.