This week we've been focusing on choice and births in Africa. I decided to talk about the lack on knowledge in Africa. Something that really struck me in class today was the realization that the women in Africa don't know that they're pregnant. I was shocked that the young girl didn't know she was with child. She told her mother that she had no clue how this could happen. This is so similar to what's going on in America. It's essential that parents educate their children about pregnancy. I know I've never spoke to my own mother about pregnancy I kind of looked to my friends and the people around me to know and learn more about the risk of having unprotected sex. But then again I was taught throughout school these risk.
I've posted a link that speaks more on "Teen Pregnancy on the Rise"
http://pregnancy.families.com/blog/teen-pregnancy-on-the-rise
This link talks about "Why Teen Pregnancy is a Poverty Problem"
http://news.change.org/stories/why-teen-pregnancy-is-a-poverty-problem
Yes it is crazy when you think about a women not knowing they are pregnant. And this happens in America too. That show "I Didn't know I was pregnant" has many women on it that didn't know they were pregnant until the baby was being born. So those babies really did not get the prenantal care they needed. And a lot of these women are not teenagers. Parents do need to educate their children about being pregnant or getting pregnant. I have actually talked to my mom about pregnancy on many ocassions and she really has helped better understand it. Education is key!
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ReplyDeleteI thought the attached article about poverty was very interesting. I think pregnancy is related to poverty but in different ways in different areas of the world. In Africa I think there are so many teen pregnancies because they don’t have resources. In the video we watched, the African woman described that it is very difficult to get birth control because there isn’t any place nearby. So pregnancy is linked to poverty in this way. I think pregnancy in the US is connected to poverty as well but in a different way. Birth control is much more available in the US than in Africa. And sex education is similar throughout almost all the US. One thought I had is that perhaps pregnancy is more accepted in the poorer cultures. Because it more common maybe it is not looked down upon as much. And maybe parents make less of an effort to educate their children because they figure it is something that just happens. As we have agreed in a lot of the blogs, education from the parents is the very important part.
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ReplyDeleteThe first thing that I noticed on Chassidy's blog is the visual argument. We must admit that "sex education" doesn't exactly look like it belongs under reading and writing. Which is one of the reason why it is not talked about in schools. But now we have to think about why it is not talked about at home. The story in class about the girl that didn't know she was pregnant a little shocking. Some of us have probably seen the show"I didn't know I was pregnant" but for the most part if a woman is having some symptoms she will go see what's going on with her body. Another thing that hocked me is how she mentioned she had NO CLUE that she could get pregnant having sex. Most of us know how the process takes place and what the consequences can be for having sex, but this girl was just completely out of wack. It's kind of contradicting to say that this teen pregnancy is a social issue when the issue on the social end is not properly educating teen's on every aspect of sex and not just STD's.