Negative Essay On Teen Pregnancy

Teen Pregnancy

Stacey Lee

DeVry University

Prewriting

What is your narrowed topic? Be detailed in your answer. You can use any of the versions you’ve developed for prior assignments.

Teen pregnancy should not be supported by society because it costs taxpayers billions of dollars to help support these teens who engage in unprotected sex. It is important to understand that taxpayers have responsibilities to help keep the nation running and not spend money on providing assistance to teens that should not be having children yet until they are financially able to. Teens should be made to feel safe and secure and not feel pressured or threatened regarding their personal preferences or choices of having unprotected sex. But yet they should

Why? Be detailed in your answer about your audience.

My primary audiences are for teens who engage in unsafe sex, in the event that they should become pregnant, they need to look at all their options and this will include: keeping the child, abortion, or giving up for adoption. Adolescents who choose to keep the child need to be made aware of the responsibilities that come with parenthood. Parents should also be made aware and prepare if their child should find themselves pregnant.

In a sentence or short paragraph, what is your thesis statement, including your angle? Write what will appear in your essay.

Teen Pregnancy costs taxpayers billions of dollars, our nation should work together to help prevent teen pregnancies so that our tax dollars will be put to better use, such as more law enforcement to help fight crime.

What topic sentences will you use as the foundation of your communication? (If necessary, add more points.)

• Causes of teen pregnancies

• Why teen pregnancies is a cause for concerns

• United States has the highest teen pregnancy

They share everything between them, dreams of which college to attend and what they want to become after high school. Their families think the couple is a bit young to be dating at the age of 15. Friends and classmates laugh and predict that the high school sweethearts will end up marrying after college. Lately Linda is starting to feel sick in the mornings; she tells no one and made an appointment to see her Pediatrician. Ten minutes later she comes out of the doctor’s office with a stunned look on her face. A baby! Linda is excited but scared at the same time because how will she tell Myke that she’s pregnant. How can she tell her parents? What will her friends think of her? What will people think of her? But most importantly, how will she support her child when she is still in high school and both she and Myke do not have a job. These are some of the issues and concerns that will run through a teens mind when they find themselves