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Teenage Pregnancy

Teenage Pregnancy and Substance Abuse: How They Correlate: PREVENTING THE UNWANTED. Teenage Pregnancy. Teenage Pregnancy. Partnership For Maternal And Child Health Of Northern New Jersey 65-67 Ruby Brown Terrace, Jersey City, NJ 07305 Rachel Ugrinovsky, CADC, ICADC 201-876-8900 Ext. 248.

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Teenage Pregnancy

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  1. Teenage Pregnancy and Substance Abuse: How They Correlate: PREVENTING THE UNWANTED Teenage Pregnancy Teenage Pregnancy Partnership For Maternal And Child Health Of Northern New Jersey 65-67 Ruby Brown Terrace, Jersey City, NJ 07305 Rachel Ugrinovsky, CADC, ICADC 201-876-8900 Ext. 248

  2. Teen Pregnancy Pre-test (True or False) • True • True • True • True • True • True • Teen mothers are twice as likely to die in childbirth. • A child born to a teen mother is twice as likely to die before the age of one. • Teen mothers are twice as likely not to finish high school. • One-half of all welfare payments go to families with teen mothers. • 20% of teen mothers are pregnant again before two years. • 82% of girls who gave birth at age 15 or younger were born to teen parents.

  3. Teen Pregnancy Pre-test (True or False) • True • True • False • True • Most teen pregnancies happen by mistake – they were not planned. • If a boy has already made plans for further education after high school, he should not have to worry about marrying a girl, even if she is pregnant. • If a girl is pregnant, but the boy doesn’t want her to have the baby, he is not responsible for supporting the child financially. • If the father wants custody and the mother doesn't, the father gets custody, because it's his baby.

  4. Teen Pregnancy Pre-test (True or False) • False • False • False • False • True • If a girl gets pregnant a guy does not need to worry about it if he does not like the girl. • If a guy does not have a regular job, he will not be responsible for child support. • If a couple breaks up after the girl is pregnant, the guy has no responsibility for the child. • It's a girl's fault if she gets pregnant. It's not the guy's problem. • The divorce rate is greater for couples with a pre-marital pregnancy than for those who conceive after marriage.

  5. Four in ten girls get pregnant at least once before age 20. Source: National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy analysis of Henshaw, S.K., U.S.. Teenage Pregnancy Statistics, New York: Alan Guttmacher Institute, May, 1996; and Forrest, J.D., Proportion of U.S. Women Ever Pregnant Before Age 20, New York: Alan Guttmacher Institute, 1986, unpublished.

  6. The consequences of teen motherhood are many: • Less likely to complete high school • Dependence on welfare • Single parenthood • More likely to have more children sooner on a limited income • More likely to abuse or neglect the child National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy. (1997). Whatever Happened to Childhood? The Problem of Teen Pregnancy in the United States. Washington, DC: Author.

  7. Risks to children of teen mothers • growing up without a father • low birth weight and premature • school failure • mental retardation • insufficient health care • abuse and neglect • poverty and welfare dependence Source: Maynard, R.A., (ed.), Kids Having Kids: A Robin Hood Foundation Special Report on the Costs of Adolescent Childbearing, New York: Robin Hood Foundation, 1996.

  8. 100 teen girls get pregnant each hour. Nearly 1 million teen pregnancies occurred in 1996. To put it another way, more than 100 U.S. teens become pregnant each hour. Forty percent of these pregnancies were girls under the age of 18, and 60 percent were girls aged 18-19. Total: 905,000 542,640 337,530 24,830 The Alan Guttmacher Institute. (1999). Special report: U.S. teenage pregnancy statistics with comparative statistics for women aged 20-24. New York: Author.

  9. Each Year, American Youth Experience • Nearly 900,000 teen pregnancies • Approximately 9 million new cases of STDs • An estimated 15,000 new cases of HIV among those aged 15-24 Sources: U.S. Teenage Pregnancy Statistics, Alan Guttmacher Institute, 2004, and Weinstock, H., et al., Sexually Transmitted Diseases in American Youth: Incidence and Prevalence Estimates 2000

  10. THE LINK BETWEEN TEEN PREGNANCY, SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND SUBSTANCE EXPOSED INFANTS AND CHILDREN

  11. Prevalence in 8th graders: • 51.7% have tried alcohol • 43.1% have had an alcoholic drink in the past year • 25.1% have been drunk • 15.2% have had 1 or more binge drinking episodes

  12. Prevalence in 10th graders: • 70.6% have tried alcohol • 63.7% have had an alcoholic drink in the past year • 48.9% have been drunk • 25.6% have had 1 or more binge drinking episodes • 1.9% have been drinking daily for at least 1 month at some point in their lives

  13. Prevalence in 12th graders: • 80% have tried alcohol • 73.8% have had an alcoholic drink in the past year • 62.3% have been drunk • 30.8% binge drank in the past 2 weeks • 3.6% use alcohol daily

  14. Alcohol abuse increases the rate of teen dating violence. According to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), “Among college students under age 21 alone, 50,000 experience alcohol- related date rape, and 430,000 are assaulted by another student who has been drinking.”

  15. Eighteen percent of males and 14% of females aged 12–17 years reported drinking before age 13 (Table 14). • Overall, 39% of adolescents aged 12–17 years had at least one drink of alcohol in their lifetime (Table 16). • Females (40%) were as likely as males (38%) to have had at least one drink of alcohol (Table 16).

  16. In 2014, almost 250,000 babies were born to women aged 15–19 years, for a birth rate of 24.2 per 1,000 women in this age group

  17. Many young people engage in sexual risk behaviors that can result in unintended health outcomes. For example, among U.S. high school students surveyed in 20151 • 41% had ever had sexual intercourse. • 30% had had sexual intercourse during the previous 3 months, and, of these • 43% did not use a condom the last time they had sex. • 14% did not use any method to prevent pregnancy. • 21% had drunk alcohol or used drugs before last sexual intercourse.

  18. Sexual Behaviors: HIV, STD, & Teen pregnancy Prevention (CDC) -34% had sexual intercourse during previous 3 months and of these, 41% did not use a condom the last encounter -15% had sex with 4 or more people during their life -Nearly 10,000 people (aged 13-24) were diagnosed with HIV in the US in 2013 -Nearly half of the 20 million new STD’s each year were among young people age 15-24 -Approx. 273,000 babies were born to teen girls age 15-19 y.o. in 2013

  19. In 2009, 46% of high school students had sexual intercourse and 13.8% had four or more sex partners during their life. Prior to the sexual activity, 21.6% drank alcohol or used drugs. Only 38.9% used a condom.CDC • In 2009, 34% of currently sexually active high school students did not use a condom during their last sexual intercourse.CDC

  20. What problems can teen substanceabuse cause? • What problems can teen substance abuse cause? • Substance abuse can lead to serious • problems such as poor schoolwork, loss of problems. • friends, problems at home, and lasting legal problems.

  21. Alcohol and drug abuse is a leading cause of teen death or injury related to car accidents, suicides, violence, and drowning. • Substance abuse can increase the risk of pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases(STDs), including HIV, because of unprotected sex.

  22. “If you’ve had sexual intercourse, do you wish you had waited longer?” Nearly two-thirds of teens who have had sex wish they had waited.

  23. www. Pregnantteenhelp.org www.thenationalcampaign.org Pregnancy.adoption.com www.livestrong.com/article/96985-complications-teenage-pregnancy www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/teenbrth.htm http://www.learn-about-alcoholism.com/teenage-binge-drinking.html

  24. womensissues.about.com/od/datingandsex/a/TeenAbortRates.htm www.solutionsforamerica.org/healthyfam/teenage-pregnancy.html www.advocatesforyouth.org/teen-pregnancy-prevention www.ncsl.org/IssuesResearch/Health/AbortionLaws/tabid/14401/Default.aspx

  25. Progress review data and slides can be found on the web at: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/hphome.htm

  26. RESOURCES *Centers for Disease Control (CDC) *www.focusas.com-Focus Adolescent Services *www.drugabuse.gov- National Institute on Drug Abuse *www.samhsa.gov—SAMHSA Web: Center for Substance Abuse Prevention * Alcoholic Anonymous –www.AA.org * Narcotics Anonymous –www.na.org niaaa.nih.gov oas.samhsa.gov/2k4/agedependence/agedependence.htm nhtsa.dot.gov

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