Teratogen is the substances in the external environment that can cause the abnormality to the development of the fetus if the mother engrossed them during pregnancy. Overuse of drugs, timing of exposure, individual factors of mother and child, genetic factors, nutritional factors, metabolic factors,...

Teen Pregnancy Throughout the history of the world, teen pregnancy was the norm, until the modern era. Each year in this country, almost one million teenagers become pregnant and approximately four in ten girls become pregnant at least once before reaching the age of 20. In 1960, a time of marri...

In today's society the discussion on abortion is a big issue. Should it be legal or illegal? One of the reasons a lot of people will probably vote for President Bush is because he is anti-abortion, as well as millions of others in the country. However, a lot of people will also probably vote f...

I have always thought the idea of gods and goddesses very interesting, ancient goddess being most interesting. I have felt this way because the majority of people in this day and age were raised with the male figure being the head of the household. In some third world countries the women are not e...

I. The United States has the highest teen pregnancy rate in the western world with approximately 1 million adolescents becoming pregnant every year. II. Teenage mothers tend to have insufficient prenatal care. A. Mothers and unborn children suffer from malnutrition. 1. lack of information 2...

Sex over the age of 65. Should people this old be having sex? I mean, come on, they're old. Im sure that many young people around my age, both younger and old feel the same way about this strange topic. Who really wants to think about their grandparents having sex? Then again it had to have...

Odds of Teen Pregnancy Teenage pregnancy is a humongous ghost in American society. In spite of the orientation and counseling provided to adolescents, they keep having unsafe sex and getting involved in irresponsible intimate relations. Obviously, classmates and friends' insistence pl...

Teenage pregnancy has been a significant issue in our society, today. The number of single teens who become pregnant continually increases dependence on the social welfare system causing a strain on state and local government services, in which we as a society pay taxes to support. There are three...

More and more women, especially those who are teenagers, divorced/separated, and women with a history of more than one abortion, are choosing to go through with abortions. About one million six hundred thousand American babies are killed by abortionists' everyday. People who are not willing t...

Schizophrenia is a serious brain disorder that can have a devastating impact on the lives of patients and their families. It is a disorder that is still undergoing very much research due to the lack of knowledge about the exact reasons for its occurrence as well as the exact chemical reactions in th...

Legal abortions are essential in a free society that values women and their rights. Abortion is never an easy decision, but women have been making that decision for thousands of years. Whenever a society attempts to outlaw abortions, it ignores the same urgent reasons for safe, legal abortions tha...

According to the U.S. Census Bureau 10,657 babies are born every day and twenty of these babies are born with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. Alcohol is the most commonly abused substance by pregnant women because it legal and socially acceptable (Mercer, 1990). Many pregnant women are not aware of the co...

Alcoholism and Its EffectsAlcoholism Alcoholism is when there is a progressive, excessive inappropriate drinking of alcohol. Alcoholism is thought to come from a combination of a huge range of psychological, social, and genetic factors. Alcoholism comes from emotional and sometimes physical depe...

Most of the clones don't even live to see their birth anyway. That's how it was in 1996 with Dolly, only one of the 277 copying attempts was succesful. Every other lab created embryo died in the Leihmutters womb/body or even in the Petrischale. In the meantime the procedures were improved, but even ...

Prenatal development is the period in development from conception to the onset oflabor. Perinatal period is the period beginning about the seventh month of pregnancyand continuing until about four weeks after birth. Postnatal development is the periodin development the follows directly after birth. ...

4/11/03English 11 Teen Parents Teenage Parents " I have long believed that the development of a child does not ...