Deck 10: Teenage Pregnancy and Parenting

Question 1

Residential programs for teenage mothers

A) continue to be 100% successful in helping mothers provide for their babies.
B) have failed, because they do not help mothers get off public assistance.
C) Have promising results in helping women achieve complete high school or achieve GED, increase self-sufficiency, securing apartments and steady employment.
D) help mothers do much better financially than teen mothers who do not participate in such programs.

Answer 1

Have promising results in helping women achieve complete high school or achieve GED, increase self-sufficiency, securing apartments and steady employment.

Question 2

Under the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996

A) mothers under eighteen are required to live with their parents or another adult.
B) states having the most difficulty lowering teen pregnancy rates can apply for additional funding.
C) the federal government mandates how funds are spent.
D) the use of birth control is stressed over abstinence in all prevention programs.

Answer 2

mothers under eighteen are required to live with their parents or another adult.

Question 3

Teen pregnancy prevention programs are most effective if

A) they begin in high school.
B) they are run by parent groups.
C) they are designed only for girls.
D) they are culturally sensitive.

Answer 3

they are culturally sensitive.

Question 4

Popular opinion assumes that teen parents live in poverty because they have disrupted educations and dead-end jobs; however,

A) in reality, many were poor before they became parents.
B) they are in poverty because babies cost so much.
C) many teens choose to live this way as a social statement.
D) this became true only after the Welfare to Work provisions.

Question 5

When teen mothers and their babies live with grandparents,

A) fathers are more likely to participate in parenting.
B) mothers experience less conflict in their roles as mothers.
C) it is usually for a very short time.
D) they are typically required to pay rent.

Question 6

Why is it important to create gender-neutral pamphlets on contraception?

A) in order to educate both young men and young women
B) because girls are more likely to use contraception than boys
C) so that it is easier for teens to hide the pamphlets from their parents
D) because boys are more likely to read pamphlets than girls

Question 7

What is an example of a sexual educational program for teens and their families?

A) Silver Ring Thing
B) Free Condom Society
C) God's Plan
D) Safer Choices

Question 8

The fact that 50% of children of teen mothers repeat a grade in school is an example of

A) the Inverse Success theory of education.
B) the negative impact of teen parenting on the development of children.
C) the failure of schools to provide adequate sexual education.
D) the prevailing thought that children of teen parents have lower IQs.

Question 9

Select which of the following is a challenge faced by teen fathers.

A) They have a hard time supporting their families financially.
B) They are typically sex addicts in need of treatment.
C) No programs exist to support them.
D) Teen mothers usually do not want them involved in parenting.

Question 10

Select one of the services provided by residential programs.

A) giving out living allowances
B) teaching parenting skills
C) providing free contraceptives
D) marketing teen pregnancy prevention programs

Question 11

According to popular opinion, why do teens become pregnant?

Question 12

Why do some argue that teens are not physiologically ready to bear children?

Question 13

A clinic that provides free condoms falls under which category of teen pregnancy prevention?

Question 14

A sexual education class falls under which category of teen pregnancy prevention?

Question 15

Propose an activity that would take place in a teen parenting program.

Question 16

What are some of the key differences between a program focusing on sexual antecedents and a program focusing on nonsexual antecedents?

Question 17

Analyze the relationship between poverty and teen pregnancy.

Question 18

Analyze the relationship between previous sexual abuse and teen pregnancy.

Question 19

Design and describe a comprehensive prevention program focusing on sexual and nonsexual antecedents.

Question 20

Evaluate the effectiveness of "just say no" teen pregnancy prevention programs.

Question 21

Discuss the importance of father involvement as it relates to child development and healthy brain development.