CAUSES

PEER PRESSURE
LACK OF FAMILY ATTENTION LACK OF KNOWLEDGE AND
GLAMORIZATION OF PREGNANCY
CULTURE AND TRADITION
SEXUAL HARASSMENT
ADDICTION

EFFECTS
CONSEQUENCES OF TEEN CHILDBEARING FOR MOTHERS
MEDICAL COMPLICATIONS
CONSEQUENCES OF TEEN PREGNANCY FOR CHILDREN
COST OF TEENAGE PREGNANCY
CONCLUSION
In conclusion, teenage pregnancy is a critical issue in today’s society, which is affecting overall
society. Various reports and studies have regularly shown that teenage pregnancy causes significant
negative effects on the health of both, the mother and child. Due to the poor educational
qualification, teenage mothers often suffer from financial problems. Also, poor family relationship,
inadequate health and education facilities, affect the physical and psychological development of their
child, encouraging the criminal behavior and drug addiction among them. Teenage pregnancy
causes extra burden to the taxpayers too. In a way, in order to maintain the health of the society,
and develop happy and peaceful society, it is essential to take revolutionary steps to restrain
growing numbers of teenage pregnancies in the country.

I stayed at home because it was raining.

Because of the rain, I stayed at home.

Marijuana is less toxic than alcohol or tobacco. __therefore________, some people

believe it should be legalized.

Consider the causes and effects in the following thesis statements. List a cause and effect for each

one on your own sheet of paper.

1. The growing childhood obesity epidemic is a result of technology.

2. Much of the wildlife is dying because of the oil spill.

3. The town continued programs that it could no longer afford, so it went bankrupt.

4. More young people became politically active as use of the Internet spread throughout society.

5. While many experts believed the rise in violence was due to the poor economy, it was really due to

the summer-long heat wave.

a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some
specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect:

o bring about often by surmounting obstacles