Date of Defense
8-21-2007
Department
Sociology
First Advisor
Elizabeth Amidon, English
Second Advisor
Bryce Dickey, Family and Consumer Sciences
Third Advisor
Carol Crumbaugh, Teaching, Learning & Educational Studies
Abstract
Girls who become pregnant in their teenage years must deal with the personal, social, economic and medical issues of pregnancy while trying to finish high school. The state of Michigan has a higher teenage pregnancy rate than half of the other states in the U.S. Each year 26,270 teenagers become pregnant in Michigan. Of these teenagers 54% choose to give birth and continue their lives as mothers and 32% choose to have an abortion. The author looked closely at the populations in Hillsdale and Kalamazoo counties to compare the numbers of teens that became pregnant, their access to resources such as birth control, counseling, and abortion services, and the schooling of pregnant teens in these counties.
Recommended Citation
Fox, Nora A., "A View of Urban and Rural Teenage Pregnancy in Young Adult Fiction and the Realities in Southern Michigan" (2007). Honors Theses. 446.
https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/honors_theses/446
Access Setting
Honors Thesis-Campus Only