BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST SCHOOL

TORTOLA, BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS

TEENAGE PREGNANCY

A Project
Done as CXC School Based Assessment
Prepared in Partial Fulfillment
For the Requirements of the Course:

SOCIAL STUDIES

Teacher: Mr. Andre Whitely

Presented by:
Xiomy Suero

Registration No.: 0500050295

Year: March 2020

 Teenage pregnancy

Xiomy Suero

BVI Seventh-day Adventist School

March 2020
TABLE OF CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENT..............................................................................................................1
INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................................................2
STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM...........................................................................................3
REASON FOR SELECTING AREA OF RESEARCH..............................................................3
METHOD OF INVESTIGATION...............................................................................................3
INSTRUMENT USED TO COLLECT DATA...........................................................................4
PROCEDURES FOR DATA COLLECTION.............................................................................7
PRESENTATION OF DATA......................................................................................................8
 ACKNOWLEDGMENT

I would like to give thanks to Mr. Andre Whitely for all his effort and contribution during my

School Based Assessment. It was really helpful and without his help I would not have done so

well, he was always there to make sure I corrected what was needed and to direct me to do well

in order to be successful.

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 INTRODUCTION

The purpose of this School Based Assessment is to find out how are pregnant teenagers treated in

the Sea Cows Bay community. The researcher will be going around the community to distribute

some questionnaire surveys in order to get responds from the community individuals. The

researcher will be comparing the different responds and interpret it in figures showing the

percentages per the selected questions.

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 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

Why is teenage pregnancy prevalent in the British Virgin Island? How are pregnant teenagers

treated in the community of Sea Cows Bay.

REASON FOR SELECTING AREA OF RESEARCH

I choose this topic because there are many pregnant teens in my community. Teenage pregnancy

may be linked to things such as lack of education and information about reproduction, peer

pressure and early engagement in sexual activity. I want to identify the factors that cause teenage

pregnancy, I also would like to find out persons opinion on teenage pregnancy and its impact on

the teenagers and their family.

METHOD OF INVESTIGATION

The method of investigation the researcher used to gather information was questionnaires. The

researcher used it because of the following advantages:

1. It is easy to complete by respondents as it requires a short time.

2. It is easy to analyze.

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 INSTRUMENT USED TO COLLECT DATA

TEENAGE PREGNANCY

INSTRUCTION: Please answer the following questions by placing a tick in the box of your
choice and write on the lines provided. There is no right or wrong answer and you do not
have to write your name.

Age:
What is your religion
To which ethnic group do you belong?
How long have you been living in the community?

If you are a pregnant teenager or were pregnant as a teenager answer question 1 to 10.

1. If you are pregnant, is this your first pregnancy?

________________________________________________________________________

2. Was this pregnancy planned?

________________________________________________________________________

3. Did drug or alcohol use have an influence you on getting pregnant?

□Strongly agree
□Agree
□Disagree
□Strongly Disagree
4. Were you or your partner using any method of birth control?
______________________________________________________________________________

5. Did you have difficulty getting birth control?

______________________________________________________________________________

6. Are you currently in school?

______________________________________________________________________________

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7. Did you receive any pregnancy prevention information in the past year?
______________________________________________________________________________

8. What is the last grade you completed?

______________________________________________________________________________

9. Was it difficult to tell your parents?

______________________________________________________________________________

10. Did you think about abortion?

______________________________________________________________________________

11. What would you do if a friend tells you she is pregnant?

______________________________________________________________________________

12. What influences Teenagers to have sexual intercourse?

□Peer Pressure
□Stress
□Other
If other, please state
______________________________________________________________________________

13. What are the causes of Teenage Pregnancy?

□Lack of Parental Guidance

□Peer Pressure
□Rape
□Other
If other, please state
______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________

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14. Do teenage mothers attend your school?

□Yes □No
15. If yes, did they return to school to complete their studies?

□Yes □No
16. How does the school react to pregnant teenagers?

□Positively
□Neutral
□Negatively
17. How does teenage pregnancy affect the pregnant teen?
______________________________________________________________________________

18. What can be done in the community to reduce cases of teenage pregnancy?
______________________________________________________________________________

19. What measures can be instituted by the government to reduce teenage pregnancy?

□Education campaign
□Strict laws
□Other, please specify
______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________

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 PROCEDURES FOR DATA COLLECTION

A total of 30 questionnaires containing 19 questions, were prepared to be distributed in the Sea

Cows Bay community. Questionnaires were distributed randomly to male and female

respondents as they passed the community center on their way to work and school. They were

asked to complete them and return them the following day.

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 PRESENTATION OF DATA

A total of 24 questionnaires were distributed to the person of the sea cows bay community, out of

which 24 were returned, of these respondents’ individual between the age of 12 to 41 answered

the questionnaire.

Out of the 24 returned questionnaires around the age group of 16 to 20 were asked.

Age Group
50%

45%

40%

35%

30%
# of Persons

25%
45%
20%

15%

10% 20%
16% 15%
5%
4%
0%
1

10 TO 15 16 TO 20 21 TO 25 26 TO 30 40 TO 45

Figure 1: bar-graph showing the age group of respondents.

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 Did drug or alcohol use have an influence you on getting pregnant?
35%

30%

25%

20%

15% 32%
24% 24%
10% 20%

5%

0%

Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree

Figure 2: Bar graph showing response to question three (3).

When asked if drug or alcohol use had an influence on them getting pregnant, respondents
provide the following 20 % Strongly Agree, 24% Agree, 24% Disagree and the remainder 32%
Strongly Disagree.

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 What influences teenagers to have sexual intercourse?

40%

24%

36%

0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40% 45%

Peer Pressure Stress Other

Figure 3:Bar graph showing responds to question twelve (12).

When asked what influences teenagers to have sexual intercourse they respond as follow 36%

Peer Pressure, 24% Stress and 40% other.

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 What are the causes of teenage pregnancy?

36%

8%

8%

48%

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60%

Lack of parental guidance Peer Pressure

Rape Other

Figure 4: Show three (3) different causes of teenage pregnancy.

48% of teenage pregnancy is caused by Lack of parental guidance, 8% is caused by Peer

Pressure, 8% is caused by Rape and 36% is causes by other.

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 Do teenage mothers attend your school?

30%

70%

Yes No

Figure 5: Show if teenage mothers attend the same school as the individuals which answered the

questionnaire.

There is a 30% of teenage school who attend to the same school and the individuals while there a

s 70% who does not attend to the same school as the person who completed the questionnaire.

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 If yes, did they return to school to complete their studies?

50% 50%

Yes No

Figure 6: Show if teenagers return to school to complete their studies after giving birth.

When individuals were asked if the person return to school to complete their studies 50% answer

Yes and 50% answer were No.

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 What measures can be instituted by the government to reduce teenage pregnancy?
60.00%

50.00%

40.00%

30.00%
54.20%
20.00%
33.30%
10.00%
12.50%
0.00%

Education campaign Strict laws Other

Figure 7: Shows the result of which measures can be instituted by the government to reduce

teenage pregnancy.

When asking individuals which measures can be instituted by the government to reduce teenage

pregnancy the majority 54.20% said Education campaign, 33.30% said Strict laws and 12.50%

said others.

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INTERPRETATION

Many individuals studied their religion as the main reason for their responds based on the

questions. Many females who went through pregnancy during their teen age believe that there

should be a better way to abort this topic amount young ladies and that it is needed. Some

females don’t be mentally, physically or emotionally ready to become a teenage mother.

Individuals believe that the school should give young females the opportunity to go back and

complete their studies after giving birth because we are not perfect to judge nobody but also you

doesn’t want to be that person who didn’t give them an opportunity , people make mistakes and

wrong decisions but not because you have a child mean your life is done.

Many teenagers think about abortion believing it’s the easier way to overcome the situation but

it’s not because there will be consequences in their future after committing an abortion

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FINDINGS

This investigation revealed a number of opinion that people of the Sea Cows Bay community has
on Teenage pregnancy, these are the follow:

Teenagers are getting pregnant because some parents doesn’t get involved in their child life in
order to encourage and help them in hard decisions.

Some schools don’t provide an area to talk with young people about sex and it consequences.

Young individuals let drugs and alcohol affect their decisions in one second.

People will always judge without knowing the other situation, there are many females that
become a mother because of rape but choose t keep the child.

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RECOMMENDATIONS

To each and all young females in this earth sometimes you have to be careful and have

responsibilities for certain decisions you make or take and if you know you aren’t stable and

ready for this responsibilities the best thing to do is to use protection or talk to your parents about

the topic sometimes parents sound like a disc saying the same thing over and over but them only

want what’s best for you and you to have the opportunities them didn’t had.

Don’t take abortion as a option there are many other option out there, you doesn’t choose who

life matters each and every one has their own mission to earth. Having a child is not a mistake is

a life gift there are many females wo wish to be a mother but for medical conditions cannot have

one, so why would you choose to kill a child.

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