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._

Dear Poirot,

A child becomes what he experiences - that was also a
point that I made (be it from a parent or a teacher).
As I stated earlier -
Teachers have a unique opportunity to counteract
unhealthy influences in a pupil's early childhood.
They have the power to affect a child's life for better
or for worse. While parents possess the original key
to their offspring's experience, teachers have a
spare key.

My Maths teacher was crammed with knowledge but she
managed to make me feel ignorant. She was a virtuoso of the
verbal slap. In her class I knew how it felt to be a
zero.

Yet my drama teacher was a true poet and a gentle critic.
She captivated our imaginations and captured our hearts.
She never criticized, she coaxed, she never pushed, she
persuaded. She never insulted, she inspired. With
sensitivity she taught us to contrast drama and life, to
evaluate performance and character. Through her efforts
I came to appreciate art and to this day I love the
theatre.

anyhow lets try to teach
not preach

on a personal level..teen pregers
is a thing that girls should do after highschool
like when they are in uni studying for 5 years on their career

by the time they are ready...the child is ready for day care
and mum equiped to go to work

the health benifits of the young having kids are many
[search out that]..and that dangers of having kids too late are obvious as well[search out them]

there is a stigma on young mums
its pure hell..[no one is talking about that]
search out that

there is nothing that can come close to
that bond of mother and child
research that

the world likes to moralise
do what we say..not what we did

some advice to a young woman with child
is to empire build...get the best genetics into the matriarchal line
have a large family..that you have built..that goes out and changes the world..

what about contrception
or std's..or abusive boyfriends
there is so much we could be helping

we arnt doing homework for others
we are teaching by guiding them to make something better than we made

information is knowledge
kids will stop speaking..if we only tell them to go away..

here is a young woman
needing info

help yourself by helping her now

Antiseptic:>> You have chosen a field that is distinctly lacking in rigour, you feel that working in the field of community services will make you feel good about yourself.<<

Anti after reading your comment I asked the bride (a secondary teacher) if CAFS is worthwhile, she said that it covers all aspects of the life cycle, from pre birth to the coffin and it identifies the social support available, she thinks it is worthwhile, but she is a teacher. She also added that it does not add to your UAI.

It seems a daughter did it as an elective in year eleven as a filler subject, the hours of the course counted but as I said no UAI credit, It is zero in an academic sense but the girls seem to like it, and if the world comprised of only males it would probably not see daylight, but an assignment on pregnant teens or a case study on reaction to the request of help with a pregnant teens assignment , none here would do the leg work for Aime, but direction and concepts are fine.

SoG, presumably then this is a high school unit. I had assumed that with a title like that it was an undergrad course.

Still, my advice to Amie stands. The task is for her to do as a learning activity. I'm sure she'll do just fine.