Hey everybody,
I am doing an assignment for CAFS (Community and Family Studies). It is about teen pregnancy. I need to know how many of you want to participate in a survey for it, or how many of you want to help me write a survey and gather information to help me with this, as I am finding it difficult and my teacher will be away for 3 weeks.

Hi Amie, if I can help I will, my demographic is 50's.

its an excersize to make you think
to be aware about the problems..that can arise

most of us here are like sonof golin
so if your neding a much larger pool of people
i would suggest spending some time at yahoo answers
[there they give you 100 points..that allows you to ask 20 questions

and you earn more points by answering others questions

im not sure what help we could give
but if you put the questions into a form
and put the form up online WITH A LINK...people could simply fill in your form..

just look at collecting info for now
and roughly sorting it by topic/subject
then later you will be able to focus on a certain direction

the big thing for me is that kids dont dare ask for help
plenty of people want to help..but need to know specificly what you want..

there would no doudt be
some teen pregers thing on facebook or myspace

anyhow get more specific questions
then seach for answers

Amie, your education is meant for you, not for me or anybody else here. You have chosen a field that is distinctly lacking in rigour, no doubt because you feel that working in the field of community services will make you feel good about yourself. That's great, but let me point out that the most important thing in creating a strong sense of self-esteem is to actually achieve things.

If others here do your work for you, how will the result reflect YOUR achievement?

Moreover, how will their assistance aid you in your learning, which is presumably the point of doing the study? I know that community services is very much a field in which blind adherence to rules is encouraged, so you perhaps feel you don't actually need the learning process. I hope not - that would be a tragic waste of both government funds and your own talents and time.

Do try to think about your topic, I'd be interested in your findings.

Dear Amie,

If you haven't already tried it -
try Googling "Surveys of teenage pregnancies,"
there's quite a selection on the web. It may
be a good place to start. The surveys and
topics covered could give you some ideas as to
how to approach the subject.

Have fun with this. And let me know how you did.

Aime,

Go for it - have a bit of confidence in yourself to discover the information you need. I'm sure you'll happily surprise yourself once you start digging : )

(Lexi, a good case in point here. The teacher goes away and the young person feels inadequate to continue unaided without direction...that was my point in the other thread about instilling confidence from an early age in the art of independent and self-directed learning._