Teenage Pregnancy Sociology

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Society as a whole we have noticed changes throughout the years of our society and how are sexual norms are changing towards teen pregnancy within our society. With these sexual norms, it only targets specific age groups in our society and how their social role is changing as a whole in our society. Teen pregnancy in the United States has increased throughout the whole world. As a society we need to understand why this is a big issue of sexual norms in our society. Sexual norms has really changed us in our society because we have been open to more of these sexual norms. However, in our society we need to understand the importance of sociological imagination and how it helps us understand the society as a whole.In our society we have noticed …show more content…

C. Wright Mills concept of the sociological imagination, we could apply to the issue of the high teen pregnancy in the Untied States. This theory can make us understand the issue within the teen pregnancy, birth rates in our society. sociological imagination is the quality provides an understatement within our larger society around us. When trying to use this theory to help us understand the birth rates in the Untied States we need to look at the personal experience in these teens lives and their wider society around these young …show more content…

Families can have that big effect on them because it they came from a religious family they will have a different output on the pregnancy. Which usually that live in a religious homes do try to act out to show that they just want to be independent. religion can make the teenager homeless because the family will not deal with that kind of behavior which can make it difficult for the teen to cope with. However, this does have the sexual norms that the acceptance of premarital sex. Premarital sex does go against almost every religion because its sex before marriage and in religious homes they want there teenagers to not have sex until their married. This is consider a moral issue in our society it was a taboo in so many cultures in our society. Which premarital sex is consider a sin by many member in our religious society. Since we have develop differently in our society premarital sex has been accepted a lot more in our society. Teen pregnancy leads up to so much single parent families in our society. Which can be financial hard for these single parent families because they might not have enough to support themselve or the baby. This can become a single families from the father being absentee in the whole pregnancy which is very likely at a