social Policy And Society Research 2022

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“Value judgments and moral framework in decision for teenage pregnancy”
The rate of teenage pregnancy in the United Kingdom is relatively high, when
compared with other developed countries. The estimation describes that various
strategies and policies are developed by the government but still UK face various issues
in child pregnancy. Therefore, the discussion of policy for the subject matter of teenage
sexual behavior is affected through the political framework and UK government also
describe that teenage pregnancy is the threat and risk which is occurred through the
sexual activity. The teenagers are also suffered from various risk factors which is in the
negative terms and increase the tension and made the procedure more complex (Abbott
& Reynolds, 2017). The moral values and other philosophies made certain boundaries for
the teenagers through which have to be maintained by the teenagers. The teenagers
pregnancy is become the social problem which should be addressed because it is
concept which is related to the risk and threats (SmithBattle, Chantamit-o-pas, & Schneider,
2018). In this essay review of the article is done in which one social problem and policy
about teenage pregnancy is discussed. The essay also describes the methods used in
the articles and link between the article and with the concerning issue in the society.
Teenage pregnancy is the wide phenomenon which is becomes the major
problem it is because it provides undesirable outcomes which is avoided in the recent
year and this shows that there is lack of dealing with this problem (Jones, Whitfield,
Seymour, & Hayter, 2019). Hoggart describes that this issue in handling the problem
leads in increasing the issue for the teenagers as well as to their children in UK
(Hoggart, 2012). The preferred policy was developed to overcome the risk, in this
government decided to educate the parents and teenagers about the teenager’s
pregnancy. It is because the aim of the government is to change behavior of the
teenagers and society etc (Abu-Heija, Al Haddabi, Bash, Mabaihsi, & Al-Maqbali, 2016).
Researchers describes that various existing articles describe the teenagers pregnancy
as the social problem and link the concept with the values and philosophies of the
society. The article focusing on describing the value system of the society it is because
teenagers also find difficulty in taking the decision about their pregnancy. This subject
area is selected it is because researchers defines that majority of the teenagers regret

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my making decision regarding the abortion as well as motherhood. The articles also
raise the arguments about the initiatives taken by the government for reducing the
teenager’s pregnancy it is because teenagers suffered from various health problems
and diseases due to abortion and getting poor diet (Hoggart, 2012).
Researchers also demonstrate that teenager’s pregnancy provides poor
outcomes and gets problem to the child as well as mother; social exclusion is the
disadvantage which leads in increasing the risk of pregnancy among the teenagers. It is
also because of other issue such as poverty, inequalities and values and moralities of
different background (Nichols, 2018). Researchers describe that different people and
teenagers have different values and philosophies to make decision regarding pregnancy
and abortion. Through addressing this problem teenager also focuses on describing the
association among the teenager’s motherhood and social exclusion (Iorga & Ciuhodaru,
2016).
Researchers adopted three qualitative approaches in the year 2003 and 2009
that is in the two studies mothers of the teenagers are participated in the study (Hoggart,
2012). In this research study were undertaken by adopting interview method in this study
researchers focuses on understanding the judgment and decision regarding the
continuity in the pregnancies. In the whole research project only interview approach is
used because it helps the respondents about understanding the opinions and attitudes
of the respondents (Hoggart, 2012). In the first study 12 young mothers were interviewed
and in the other study next 12 young mothers were involved. In this research up to five
of the mothers have faced termination in the pregnancy (Hoggart, 2012). Further
research researcher also involves other young women in the study of abortion.
The random sampling method adopted in the study because of selecting young
women randomly and same approach is taken in the entire research project. Therefore,
to move towards the research finding the overall data and interview of the respondents
were recorded (Hoggart, 2012). Researchers also adopted thematic analysis qualitative
software is adopted for analyzing the data. The evaluation of the data for each research
was done separately through different researchers. The advantages of thematic
analysis are that it is flexible and researchers find it easy to use in evaluating the overall