Teen Living
Objective 3.01-3.02
Factors that Affect Relationships
Consequences & Risks of Youth
Parenting
Dating
► Allows
people to learn what qualities you
like in a partner
► Abstinence
= postponing sexual activity
 Learning refusal skills helps teenagers
practice sexual abstinence
Character Traits Related to Dating
► Self-esteem
= the way that one feels about
oneself
► Poor self-concept = having a negative image of
oneself
► Compromise = each person gives up something
to get something
► Trust = the best way to gain
another person’s trust is to be
honest
Pregnancy in Teenagers
► Babies
born to youth parents are more likely to
have lower than average birth weight
► Fetal alcohol syndrome = condition that
develops in a baby born of a mother that drinks
alcohol during pregnancy
► Smoking will harm an unborn baby
► Even taking aspirin during
pregnancy puts the unborn
baby at risk
Consequences of
Teenage Parenting
► Emotional
= feelings of isolation, despair, and
frustration
► Future = dropping out of school to have a job to
pay for child support
► Social = giving up activities with friends
► Financial = the younger a girl is when she has a
baby, the more likely she is to live in poverty
► Physical = toxemia (pregnancy induced high
blood pressure) can develop during pregnancy
Teenage Parenthood
► Social
Services = government agency that
helps with financial assistance
 Helps secure child support payments