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The phase of adolescence is a period where youths try to examine, explore and take risks in order to find their identity but these typical developmental activities and observations have the possibilities of placing them at further risks compared to other life stages (Kokotailo and Adger, 1991; Dryfoos, 1991). One of the many worries they create is teenage pregnancy, which has constantly been a growing concern of the government and policy makers especially with Britain having the highest teenage pregnancy rates in Western Europe (Social Exclusion Unit, 1999; Chevalier and Viitanen, 2003). This essay will look at the unfortunate consequences teenage pregnancy can cause to individual’s welbeing from three different aspects, which are firstly, quantitative research that will predominantly cover on the key poor welfare outcomes that repeatedly appears on various quantitative studies and elaborate on how these consequences relate to one another. The essay will then discuss on the discoveries of qualitative research where it examines on the profound underlying reasoning behind the findings of quantitative research as well as highlighting the limitations of quantitative research. In the later part of the essay, it will consider the risk and resilience of these welfare outcomes and indicate how it is achievable for these young mothers get back on their feet and that it does not necessarily mean they are destitute just because they got pregnant at a young age. Lastly, the conclusion will consist of recommendations of what can be done to lessen the rate of teenage pregnancy.

When analyzing quantitative data, high rate of low education attainment among teenage parents is common. There are verities of quantitative methods of analysis that te...

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...re that is reliable, some teenage parents, especially single parent, find balancing work and family at the same time as a challenging task, which results to differing employment. Nevertheless, it is still unjustifiable to assume that young parents often idly depend on benefits as suggested by quantitative research. A qualitative study, which included a sample of 42 previous teenage mothers, found that only a total of approximately ten women never had any form of paid employment and this is often due to psychological disorder. As for those who were unemployed during the interview, they were found to be either in education or training to improve their working opportunities on maternity leave or used to be in paid employment. This signifies that the high rate of unemployment found in quantitative studies usually limits to respondents’ situation in the present time.

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