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Alexis Pratt English I- 2nd Block Mrs. Knowles 14 February 2013 Whitfield, Pinkie L. No Easy Answers to Preventing Teen Pregnancy Citizen South End. Vol.7 Issue.3 Sept 2011: pg.17 NNPA. Print. 28. Sept 2011 In the article No Easy Answers to Preventing Teen Pregnancy, Pinkie Whitfield explains the prevention of teen pregnancy including birth rates, STD, health care, and education that can still effect teens today. For some teens, teen pregnancy makes them feel like their dreams have been thrown away or an abortion. This is also a very complicated episode because teens are unaware and doesnt know when to be careful until when it happens. Whitfield also informs how teens experienced teen pregnancy and how it became between education and jobs. Whitfield mentions that between 2006-2009, teen pregnancies had a 15 year decline because of health procedures; so 42 pregnancies per 1,000 young women occurred in 2008 for females aged 15-19. According to the article, 50% of birth for girls aged 10-18 in Harlem to 4% after 10 years, then in 2009; prevent teen and unplanned pregnancy for Black (65%) and Hispanic (49%). The article also informs that teen pregnancy is the major topic to teens today such as, financial burden on government escaladed to $161 billion for teen pregnancy programs in the U.S. This article has informed me to understand the awareness of teen pregnancy and it might affect my dreams by now having a successful career because its described in detail what some people who experienced it both in depression and unimagined episode. I was able to understand

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clearly how it feels to experience teen pregnancy and you have to balance education and a job to take care of a child, and it will help me relate to other teens that have trouble struggling with education. I believe this is a good resource for my organization because it answers all of my questions that I want to know about teen pregnancy and awareness of teen life. It also helped me understand what kind of support I can provide to teens who had already experienced teen pregnancy and what info I can give to the public and how to deal with teen pregnancy every day; the awareness, and education and what kind of help they provide to help teens. The information about teen pregnancy/awareness could work very well in my provided argument because the info could help to inform the audience by saying teen pregnancy is the wrong thing to do and always be focused on your education and it convince the audience to know the awareness and dont make the same mistake other teens made!