Value Judgements and Moral Frameworks in Teenage Pregnancy Decision Making

Teenage Pregnancy

INTRODUCTION
The article that has been taken into consideration is on value judgements and moral
frameworks in teenage pregnancy decision making and the focus will be on be focusing on the
teenage pregnancy. On the other side, present report will be focusing on policy discussions of
teenage sexual behaviour have been strongly influenced by a political agenda that characterises
teenage pregnancy as a potential ‘risk’ of sexual activity. The reason behind considering this
particular article was to understand the complex processes of individual’s pregnancy decision
making, in context with competing the moralities and values at the same time.
Because over the years, there is an increase in the number of pregnant teenagers has been
observed. Including this, it provides understandings of and insights into different range of
tensions within the processes through which various degrees to personal autonomy can easily be
understood in relation with decision making or children and policy members as well. Away with
this, often just because of the different tensions while competing value systems, young women
may experience ambivalence or regret about the decision they have made.
Also, the structure of this essay will consider overview of the article given by Lesley
Hoggart, named as “I’m pregnant ... What am I going to do?’ An examination of value
judgements and moral frameworks in teenage pregnancy decision making”. Away with this, in
the middle of the essay a range of arguments will be presented from the selected article and also
a structure will also be presented of methodology and lastly, conclusion and recommendations
will be made to improve the discussed problems. Alongside this, the thesis statement of present
article is “The moral frameworks and values judgements within teenage pregnancy decision
making”.
DISCUSSION
According to (Brindis, 2017), teenage sexual behaviour is specifically considered as a
crucial subject, that is required to be understood and analysed appropriately because then only
risk of teenage pregnancy can be reduced to minimal. It has been realised that assumptions in
relation with shared values along with the judgements focusing on social undesirability of
teenage parenthood, and moral undesirability of teenage abortion are required to be improved
because then only. Including this, present article that has been taken into consideration argued
that young women’s value systems, were less likely to regret their choices or experience

ambivalence, if they were comfortable with the value framework on which it was based, and felt
their autonomy had not been compromised.
As mentioned by (Cense and Ruard Ganzevoort, 2019), at the point when a teenage focus
on own preferences, the esteems basically stays congruent, also if it is thought in a different way
than there are a range of activities that takes place to secure self-rules and yet on the off chance
that incongruence was identified or choices depended on values not based on their very own
preference then their review assessments showed that self-governance had been undermined.
This was the situation for both choice pathways: premature birth or parenthood. Based on The
Social Exclusion Unit Report (SEU 1999), which specifically labelled teenage pregnancy as a
major social issue, which is also linked as social exclusion. Away with this, there are a range of
claims that has been made while focusing on a few future risk factors, which are associated with
teenage parenthood. All the claims are made on different prospects like low educational
attainment, comparative poverty, poor employment and so on.
The Social Exclusion Unit Report (SEU 1999) also presented that, children of teenage
parents are at huge risk of poverty because it has been found that many sub-standard houses do
have poor diet. In relation with social exclusion, which takes place in between a couple then their
teenagers (children) majorly goes through mental disorders, trauma and other sort of situations,
which implies that pattern amounted to causation: Too many teenage mothers or fathers did not
understand that what price their children would have to pay just because of this particular
situation. In many cases, just because of depression, loneliness and so on, teenage mother goes
through a range of issues, but if it is critically analysed then it can be said that many young
mothers have enjoyed the time that they spent even in pregnancy and afterwards.
In this situation, potential values, rewarding, and some of the other aspects have pulled
out better outcomes and this resulted into young women’s construction of self as moral and
responsible. There are ample number of studies that has already been performed where teenage
pregnancy related decisions have directly influenced a range of values along with norms, it can
be said that negative attitudes towards abortion along with the acceptance of early motherhood
are two crucial elements that influenced pregnant teenagers in both negative and positive
outcomes towards termination of pregnancies (Brown, 2016). On the other hand, in some
minorities ethnic communities, abortion is done because of unmarried motherhood. Socio-