An Analysis of Teenage Pregnancy, Social Policy, and Societal Impact

This report delves into the multifaceted issue of teenage pregnancy, particularly within the context of the UK's social policy landscape. It examines the impact of teenage pregnancy on society, highlighting the roles of poverty, social exclusion, and social inequalities as contributing factors. The report analyzes government strategies and policies designed to address these challenges, including the UK's teenage pregnancy strategy and the Health and Social Care Act 2012. It also discusses the use of qualitative research methodology in understanding the complexities of teenage pregnancy and its consequences. The report concludes by emphasizing the importance of addressing social inequalities and implementing effective policies to mitigate the adverse effects of teenage pregnancy and improve the well-being of young people and society as a whole.

SOCIAL POLICY AND
SOCIETY

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Social policy is usually within the political and government setting such as well-
being state and report of social services. It consists with guideline, legislative, principles
and actions that influence living conditions conducive to people well-being such as
person quality of life (Neves and et.al, 201). The present report is based on chosen
article topic that is I am pregnant... what am I going to do? This study explains the policy
and framework of government, drawing two issue related to social inequalities and
teenager pregnancy. It justifies the benefits of methodology used by author in this study.
According to the Nnodim and Albert, 2016 teenage pregnancy is the major
concern of parents and society because it affects on their well-being and health of
teenager. In recent time, there are many issues or risk associated with finding of
possible unwanted outcome, that effect the people and society well being the most.
Teenage pregnancy is one of the unwanted issue that bring a lot of challenges and
social problems which need to be addressed as soon as possible in order to get better
solution for the same. In Britain policy of sexual behaviour of teenage strongly affected
by the political agenda that lineament younger pregnancy as major risk of sexual
activity. By addressing this issues government avoid and reduce the undesirables
results. Controlling and tacking this problem is major concern of local or national
authority for which they made appropriate policies. Policy is designed or developed to
reduce misconception rates amongst teenager highly consist with successive new
labour administration. The issue of teenager pregnancy is essential social and public
problem. It leads to wider context in which government committed to reduce the rates of
teenager pregnancy. Labour government in UK launched the strategy related to this
issue in society. Conservative authority give their contribution in reduced the rate of
pregnancy mostly in teenager as it define their main agenda of health of nation
initiatives. During the ear of new labour that strategy is funded and devised. Teenager
abortion and motherhood is chosen as preventable risks and topic of arranged concern.
Teenager parenthood is detected to be consequence and cause of social exclusion.
Most of the teenager parents are likely to be live in poverty and give birth to low birth
weight child who as toddlers is to be at maximizing harm of childhood accidents.

BRĂILA and et.al, 2018 stated that teenager pregnancy is the major problem for
parents and teenage instead of society because it effects on their life not the others. It
connected to social exclusion and create number of particular claims about further risk
element felt to associated with this problem. The policy of government work in some
extent still the teenager pregnancy is increasing which is not appropriate for children.
Most of the teenage parents will not been able to grow their child because of poverty,
they take action to aboard the child that directly effect teenager health and physical
well-being. Friday and et.al, 2015 contradict that Teenager pregnancy is perceived to
cause of lack of parents engagement rather than social situation. When parents do not
engaged with their children and always be busy in their professional work it increases
the risk of unwanted consequence. Child with this behaviour of parents spend a lot of
time outside at home, and include themselves in other activities. Policy formation is not
a enough way to reduce this problem, qualification and education play important role in
improving the teenager pregnancies because it allows poor girls know the fact of this
situation.
As discussed by Garn, Pesick and Petzold, 2017 every year 21 million girls aged
16 to 18 year and more than 2 million younger girls become pregnant in developing
regions. Under age of 16, 2.5 million girls give birth per year that increase the risk of
death because the rate of complications during childbirth and pregnancy is high. The
government of UK launched 10 year teenage pregnancy strategy for England to identify
nation's historically high rates and reduce exclusion of society. The aim of this policy is
to manage risk through prioritization of foreign policy centring on pregnancy prevention
through improving teenage self-regulation.
Argued by Skinner and Marino, 2016 social exclusion means situation form
predominant social system and their privilege and rights, usually as result of poverty of
belonging to number social group. Social exclusion is the main reason of teenager
pregnancy which is quite difficult to define, it is usually acknowledged to include multi
dimensional drawback.
Teenage pregnancy strategy is beneficial for well-being of teenage life, it
includes comprehensive system of action across four main theme: better prevention
through improve relationship and sex education, linked up action at local and national

level and approach to effective contraception, a good communication campaign to reach
teenage parents and young people and coordinated help for younger parents.
Furthermore, the support system for teenager parents is provided the essential
contribution in this strategy and make it successful. This strategy impact at short and
longer term period, by helping teenager prevent further unwanted pregnancies and by
breaking intergenerational cycle of vantage and reducing risk of younger pregnancy.
This strategy or policy is implement through local, national and regional structure with
devoted support for 10 year limitation. Teenage pregnancy strategy is successfully
helped to reduce the issues and low down the risk of young girls' death due to
pregnancy in between the age of 14 to 18. The strategy is primary implement in
England, the government attempt this strategy to implement the comprehensive,
evidence based practices or programmes with appropriate time, leadership and funding
to have the impact.
Qualitative research methodology is used in this research and taken by the
author in order to provide appropriate findings that helps to draw final conclusion. The
advantage of this method is that is helps to provide in-depth understanding and
underlying issues in procedure through which various degree of personal independence
will be experienced. By using the qualitative method author conduct deep research and
take point of views from number of population that help to cater more information about
the chosen topic that is teenage pregnancy as social issue. It permits writer for greater
accuracy and objectivity of outcomes, it is designed t offer summaries of collected data
that contribute generalization about phenomenon cover under this report.
This method is used to conduct behavioural and social studies because human
action is much complex instead of molecular reactions. With the help of this research,
author receive the benefits that is identified perspectives of number of individual
regarding chosen topic. The big advantage of qualitative method is ability of researcher
to deeply obtain and probe large descriptive information about impact of teenager
pregnancies on society and well-being of younger. Through cultural immersion, self
observation, interviews and case studies for instance author gather essential data and
determine the rate of young girl who were died during pregnancy period at teenage. By
using this method in report, author reach at positive outcomes, many restrictions is

placed in another research methods, but with this procedure writer collect info without
any restrictions in short term period (Implementing the United Kingdom’s ten-year
teenage pregnancy strategy for England, 2016). Author with this process focuses less
on metric of collection that is being gathered and more on subtleties of what they will
found in that specific topic. This methods allow author for to collect data about teenager
pregnancy at high level of detail, and also make them able to identify the actions taken
by government in order to reduce this major issue.
Qualitative research provide the different types of approaches, it helps author to
measure the impact and risk of teenager pregnancies, the methods will adapt to quality
of data that is being collected. Due to the flexible structure of this methodology, author
take benefits they can switch immediately to another approach and collect information in
new directions which is beneficial for overall procedure of data collecting. With
qualitative research method author read more info about the similar issue in different
region due to social exclusion and poverty. They gather more essential clued about
current subject rather than being confined to constricted and self fulfilling perspective.
In recent time teenager pregnancy is one of the major issue that affect society,
but on the other hand there are many problems associated with this concern that also
influence well fare of human life as well as living standards negatively. Social
inequality is another issue that rapidly grow and impacts on people well-being rather
than before. In society many people and teenager belong of poor family background,
they do not have much money to take the best health care treatment from health care
specialist. Poor people face time to time of failing health and death compared to rich.
Teenager parents with poverty will not be able to provide the good facilities to their child
which affects on their physical and mental growth negatively, they cannot be able to
provide nutritions supplements. In England, health inequality gap is growing more and
more in which teenager parents face many issues, they do not get permission to take
treatment like other people receive because they are rich and belong to good family
background.
Social inequality gap between poor and rich is progressing in nation, it is one of
the another major problem running in state along with teenager pregnancies that also
affect the society. According to this behaviour, teenager parents suffer a lot, most of the

young girls who are pregnant at the age of 14, cannot be able to receive proper health
care treatment like the rich people that result in death while giving birth to child.
Government take actions to reduce social inequality in England which quite beneficial
for growth of economy. Social inequality is unfair, preventable and unjust differences in
society status between population, group or individual that arise from unfair distribution
of environment, social and economic conditions within communities and societies which
identify risk of people getting ill, teenager pregnancies and their capabilities to prevent
sickness. UK has high level of social inequality compare to other developed nations.
Number of households in country do not have disposable income, they cannot be able
to pay taxes and face issue due to poverty. During pregnancies period teenager do not
get appropriate treatment and receive the services which is essential at that time for
saving the life of young girl and their child (Coyle and et.al, 2016). Social inequalities in
health care in England is the main concern of government, most of the girls and child
die after the birth because to lack of care and treatment during birth. Poor girl at the age
of 15 to 18 get pregnant, they do not have access to gain knowledge about basic
information of human life. Poverty do not allow them to take good education that is
beneficial for enhancing living standards of poor people. Government made policy in
order to reduce social inequalities, accordant to this policy, poorer teenager tend to
consumer more health care at any age, in term of cost and volume because they are
sicker. This policy helps to reduce inequalities in health care and provide better results.
According to plan and strategies implement by local and national authority bring all
people at same level where they are equal. Health and social care Act 2012 is
successfully introduced by UK government in context to above issues which include
particular duties for health structure including department of health, clinical
commissioning groups and department of health that required bodies to have due
regard to decrease social inequalities in health care between individual of England.
CONCLUSION
From above, it has been concluded that teenager pregnancy impact on society
which is not appropriate and suitable for younger girl. Poverty, social exclusion and
social inequalities are the reason behind this main issue that affect overall development
of economy. It has been summarized that government policy and strategy that is

teenager pregnancy strategy play vital role in order to reduce the rate of problem stated
above effectively. Value judgement about teenager pregnancies were not varied, but
similar logic and value will be drawn in different ways to justify various decisions.

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