Chapter 2 REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE AND STUDIES DOCX

Title	Chapter 2 REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE AND STUDIES
Author	Jervy Diaz
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Chapter 2 REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE AND STUDIES This chapter presents the related studies and important concepts gleamed for literature that have had been found useful in the conceptualization of the present study. These related studies and literature offered assessment and enrichment in the conduct of this research work on teenage pregnancy. Related Literature The adolescent is faced with many decisions and needs accurate information on topics such as body changes , sexual activity, emotional responses within intimate sexual relationships, STD's, and pregnancy. In the United States 70% of adolescents have had sexual intercourse by the age of 18 (Kenney et al, 1998). A substantial number of these teenagers do not protect themselves from pregnancy or STD's. The dynamics of sexual risk taking are not fully understood, but numerous studies have found correlations between drug/alcohol use, sexual abuse, and unsafe sex. (Keller et al. 2001; Kenney et al, 2000).Adolescents tend to have a sense of being invulnerable, believing that unwanted pregnancy; STD's and other negative outcomes of sexual behaviour are not likely to happen to them (Keller et al, 2000). Adolescent parents face different barriers. According to Spivak: "it has been acknowledged that adolescent parents tend to come in high risk families have poor academic achievement, and lived in our most disadvantaged communities and therefore, biologic, economic, and behavioural factors contribute to the increased likelihood of teenager having children who are vulnerable to physical and developmental problems....