Is Parenting and Child
Development Promoting
Pregnancy?
Kristina Yarborough, EdD.
Instructional Leadership
Your thoughts
Time to share your
thoughts feelings/
concerns about this
statement.
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Statistics
O “The teenage birth rate declined 8 percent in the United
States from 2007 through 2009, reaching a historic low at
39.1 births per 1,000 teens aged 15-19 years” (Ventura &
Hamilton 2011), but continues to be among the highest in
western industrialized nations (Martin, J.A., et al. 2010).
About three quarters of a million teenagers become
pregnant each year and over half of these will give birth
and become parents (Kost, Henshaw & Carlin, 2010). Thirty
to fifty percent of all adolescent mothers have a second
pregnancy and about 25 % have a repeat birth within two
years of the first (National Campaign to Prevent Teen
Pregnancy [NCPTP], 2010a).”
Pregnant and Parenting Students, The Role of the School Nurse
(Revised2011). https://www.nasn.org/PolicyAdvocacy/PositionPapersandReports/NASNPos
itionStatementsFullView/tabid/462/ArticleId/120/Pregnant-and-Parenting-Students-The
Role-of-the-School-Nurse-Revised-2011.
http://newsonrelevantscience.blogspot.com/2012/06/1
2-studied-effects-of-teenage-pregnancy.html
Statistics
O 2010 rate dropped again to 9% nationally, 34
per 1,000 girls aged 15-19.
O Mississippi is the highest with 55 per 1,000
O New Hampshire is the lowest with 16 per 1,000
births.
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/04/10/461
402/teen-pregnancy-sex-education/
Question time:
Where is North Carolina in the
scheme of things?
North Carolina
O Birth rates among teens, 15-19 years of age
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have dropped 42% since 1990 across all 50
states and among all racial and ethnic
backgrounds.
US still highest among the industrialized nations.
3 in 10 before 20th birthday.
1 in 5 will have a second teen birth.
Cost to society= 9.4 billion dollars.
http://www.ncsl.org/research/health/teen-pregnancy-prevention.aspx
North Carolina
31.8% birth rate
http://www.ncsl.org/research/health/teen-pregnancy-prevention.aspx
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FACTS
O University of Washington in Seattle found that
teenagers who received some type of
comprehensive sex education were 60 percent
less likely to get pregnant or get someone else
pregnant.
O And in 2007, a federal report showed that
abstinence-only programs had “no impacts on
rates of sexual abstinence.”
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/04/10/461
402/teen-pregnancy-sex-education/
Research
O Teenagers are having less sex
O Are using contraceptives more often.
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/04/10/461
402/teen-pregnancy-sex-education/
What is being taught?
O Mississippi does not require sex education,
but when it is taught it must be abstinence
only.
O New Hampshire requires a comprehensive
course to include abstinence and
contraceptive information.
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/04/10
/461402/teen-pregnancy-sex-education/
Curriculum Requirement in
North Carolina
Course Description:
This course introduces students to responsible nurturing and basic
applications of child development theory with children from infancy
through age six. Areas of study include parenthood decisions, child care
issues, prenatal development and care, and development and care of
infants, toddlers, and children three through six. Emphasis is on
responsibilities of parents, readiness for parenting, and the influence
parents have on children while providing care and guidance. Art, English
language arts, and science are reinforced. Work-based learning strategies
appropriate for this course include service learning and job shadowing.
Apprenticeship and cooperative education are not available for this course.
Family, Career and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA) competitive
events, community service, and leadership activities provide the
opportunity to apply essential standards and workplace readiness skills
through authentic experiences.
This cartoon is satirizing the fact that
teenagers still in school are having
children while they are still children
themselves. Teenage pregnancy is an
issue that needs to be directly
addressed because the rate of
teenage pregnancies is steadily
rising, and will continue to rise without
an interference.
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Is teenage pregnancy being
addressed in North Carolina?
How is it being addressed?
What is being taught?
Blueprint
A PARENTING PERSPECTIVES 30% B2
PC01.00 Understand the parenthood decision. 16% B2 E/H/SS
O PC01.01 Understand readiness characteristics and factors that should be
considered before becoming a parent.
10% B2 E/H/SS Core
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PC01.02 Understand teen sexuality, teen pregnancy, and responsible
decisions about abstinence versus sexual activity
6% B2 E/H/SS Core
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PC01.03 Understand family planning issues.
0% B2 E/H/SS Supp
North
Carolina
•North Carolina
•HB 694 Requires parents provide
written permission to schools before their
children receive certain instruction in
reproductive health and safety. To House
Committee on Education.
National Conference of State Legislatures
5/23/2014
http://www.ncsl.org/research/health/state-policies-on-sex-education-in-schools.aspx
State Laws on Medical Accuracy in Sex Education
North Carolina
Reproductive health and safety education must
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 115C-81 provide factually accurate biological or pathological
information that is related to the human reproductive
system. Materials used must be age appropriate,
objective and based upon scientific research that is
peer reviewed and accepted by professional and
credentialed experts in the field of sexual health
education.
National Conference of State Legislatures
5/23/2014
http://www.ncsl.org/research/health/state-policies-on-sex-education-in-schools.aspx
Bottom Line
Is Parenting and Child Development
Promoting Pregnancy?
Answer?
How can this
information be
used to promote
our programs?
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Bibliograhpy
O Beadle, A.P. (2012). Teen Pregnancies Highest In States With
Abstinence-Only Policies. Retrieved from
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/04/10/461402/teenpregnancy-sex-education/
O Kost, K., Henshaw S. & Carlin L. (2010). U.S. Teenage
Pregnancies, Births and Abortions: National and State Trends
and Trends by Race and Ethnicity. Retrieved from
http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/USTPtrends.pdf
O Martin, J.A., Hamilton, B.E., Sutton, P.D., Ventura, S.J.,
Matthews, T.J., & Osterman, M.J. (2010). Births: Final data for
2008. United States. National Vital Statistics Reports, 59 (1).
Other Countries: United Nations Statistical Division.
Demographic Yearbook 2008. New York: United Nations.
O National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy
(NCPTP). (2010a). Why it matters. Teen pregnancy and
education. Washington, DC: Author. Retrieved from
http://www.thenationalcampaign.org/why-itmatters/pdf/education.pdf
Bibliography
O NCSL, 2014; Guttmacher Institute, 2014;
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O NCSL (National Conference of State
Legislatures). (2014). Teen Pregnancy
Prevention. Retrieved from http://www.ncsl.
org/research/health/teen-pregnancyprevention.aspx
O Ventura, S.J. & Hamilton B.E. (2011). U.S.
teenage birth rate resumes decline. NCHS data
brief, no 58. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for
Health Statistics. Retrieved from
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db58
.htm
Kristina Yarborough
Kristinayarborough
@ccs.k12.nc.us
or
kydbd@yahoo.com