TEENAGE MOTHERS

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Term Paper Title	TEENAGE MOTHERS
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TEENAGE MOTHERS

Becoming a parent permanently and profoundly alters a teenager's life.
Most of the girls forget about their dreams of happy marriage, college is
almost always out of the question, graduating High School becomes a goal most
teenage moms don't achieve.  Young girls having babies isn't new, as a matter
of fact, teenage parenthood was higher in the 1950 then it is today, but
things were different.  Most of the girls were eighteen or nineteen and many
of them already married.  Only a few of single mothers actually kept their
babies.
    Today many mothers are fifteen or sixteen years old.  Some are even as
young as twelve.  Fathers contribute little or nothing to the care of the
baby, therefore it's even harder for the mother.  All of a sudden the girl is
thrown into the world of responsibilities and duties, where the baby's needs
come before her own.  She is expected to balance her school or a job with the
full time task of raising a baby.  Her world is changed from her world of
dates, parties, sleepovers and waiting for a Saturday so you can sleep late,
to the world of doctor appointments, diapers, baby formulas, bills, and day
care.
    Experts say that girls have babies from lack of self-esteem.   "Too often,
adolescent pregnancy is what happens to poor kids," says psychologist Judith
Musick. "It can be a symptom of having no better options."  They need someone
to love and someone to love them back. What's cuddlier and cuter than a baby
is? A baby gives them something to look forward to and something that gives
meaning to their life.  Studies show that a lot of teenage mothers come from
poverty and some of them don't know any better.  There's definitely a lack of
education but it doesn't have a direct relationship to race or ethnic
background.  A lot of teenage moms don't think that they have anything to
lose by having a baby.
    Communities and Governments have tried to help out teenage mothers but
sometimes what they do just isn't enough.  There is After-School Care for
young adolescents and there are community learning centers. In 1984 about 8.7
million girls were living with a baby and without the father.  Only 58% of
those girls have been awarded child support.  Of those who were supposed to
get child support in 1983, only half received the amount due.  Twenty-six
percent received partial payment and 24% had gotten no payments at all.
Federal, state, and local funds must be provided for after sch...

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