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Annotated Bibliography On Two Generations Of Children

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Becklund, Laurie. "`I Wanted Somebody to Love' L.A. County's Teen Birthrate Is Soaring above the National Average. Growing Numbers of Girls, Some as Young as 13, Say They Are Having Babies Because Their Own Childhoods-and Hopes for the Future-are so Bleak. Series: THE TEEN BIRTH EXPLOSION. Two Generations of Children Grow Up as One. First of Three Parts." ProQuest. ProQuest, 14 Mar. 1993. Web. 18 July 2017.
The source features many interviews by Laurie Becklund. She explains how there has been an increase of teenagers getting pregnant as young as fourteen years old. Many teenagers are having children at a young age due to a dysfunctional family or poor self-esteem. Some girls just think they have no hope for the future so why not have a child …show more content…

It has become a trend, that kids think it is okay to do just because they think there is no future for themselves. I found this resource in linked on ProQuest when searching for Teen Pregnancy.

Clemmitt, Marcia. "Teen Pregnancy." Cqpress. Cqpress, 26 Mar. 2010. Web. 18 July 2017. In 2009, the Obama legislation changed the sex education funding, in which, they would fund only programs that are proving to decrease the rate of teen pregnancy. Marcia Clemmitt answers many questions that lawmakers, educators, and families question everyday about teen pregnancy. Clemmitt is a veteran social-policy reporter for CQ Researcher. The author in this resource has no bias since all her answers are backed up by other resources. Meanwhile, the audience of Clemmitt is likely to be people with questions of teen pregnancy and any information that they want to find about teenagers today and pregnancy. The article can be very useful in finding reliable information about the effects of programs taught about sex education. There are many popular question about teen pregnancy that are answer with resources to back it up. I found this resource in linked on ProQuest when searching for Teen …show more content…

"Are American Teenagers Becoming More Sexually Responsible?" Cqpress. CQPress, 15 June 2013. Web. 18 July 2017. In recent years, in seems as teen pregnancy has dropped according to Marjorie Valbrun. Due to more and more awareness of birth control and the more someone is in their church and other groups that keep them busy and not thinking about sex. The author teaches at Howard University, with not pretentious bias due to other resources she has found. The audience that may likely to allure are adults with their own kids that want to be updated about other possibilities of having sex that teenagers today are participating in. Even though the teen pregnancy has dropped the author thinks that there are still other countries that contraception is still not used as much. Also, there are other ways that teenagers are engaging in dangerous sexual behavior like sexting which can lead to unprotected sex, and having more partners than others that do no participate in sexting. I found this resource in linked on CQPress when searching for Teen

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