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Parenting in general |
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11/02/06 (1026 review reads) |
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Advantages: many for the whole of society
Disadvantages: none for chosen early parenthood, and same for any age for unplanned.
i would have liked to put this reveiw in the teen pregnancy section, but i didnt realise you could only put one review in each section.
i recently read a very interesting article with a lot of good points to make in the practising midwife journal.
it highlights all the reasons why teen pregnancy may actually be a good thing for the population.
firatly society seeing adolescent parenthood as a bad thing has increased the average age of starting a family. this creates a lot of extra expense as far as fertitlity treatment is concerned because people left it too late. Older mums are also at risk of a lot more health complications during pregnancy so it is safer to have children younger.
The population is now running out of time to have lots of childre per family because they are starting too late, this is leading to a decrease in the youth population threatening the jobs of many professions for example teachers.
with people living longer and having less children, there will soon not be enough working poulation to contribute to the care of the older population, (financially when they retire and for healthcare costs). this has led to the retirement age being later i life to try to cut these costs.
it says in the article that 'the govermment is considering improving the attractiveness of parenthood by increasing maternity and child benefits'. so this highlights furthur that this negative approach towards young parenthood is not a good thing.
of course teen pregnancies do have problems if they are unplanned. but these problems are the same across all ages if the pregnancy is unplanned. Planned teen pregnancies are actually a good thing, so next time you judge a teen mum please remember this.
Summary: negative approach to teen pregnancy is creating problems for society!
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- 24/02/06 its babies raising babies! |
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- 14/02/06 I'm not convinced by the arguments here. I think the vast majority of teen pregnancies are unplanned, and are extremely disruptive to the lives of the parents and grandparents. Even if a teen pregnancy is planned, I doubt that many teenagers are in a position to be able to care for a child successfully without relying heavily on their own parents for support.
I don't believe the argument that people need to have more children in order to offset the aging population. Yes, the aging population is a problem that needs to be addressed, but I don't think the solution is that simple - what if there aren't sufficient jobs available for the larger working population? Then you'll just have more people claiming jobseekers allowance.
I don't think teaching will suffer due to the decreasing amount of children. If anything it'll just mean that class sizes become manageable for the teachers again! |
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- 11/02/06 I totally agree that it's UNPLANNED parnethood that's a problem, and it can be as much of a problem at any age. I think the idea is that very young women often get pregnant without intention, and they often are single; but I would think that a situation of single 30 year old who accidentaly gets pregnant will be similar to a single 18 year old. The stigma seems to aply not only to teenage mothers but even to women at what is apparently the biologically ideal age for bearing children (early 20's). I am Polish and a lot of women got married and gave birth while studying for their degrees in my time, I think it's unknown in Britain.
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