Teen Pregnancy

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Teen Pregnancy Abortion
The harsh facts the opinions
Brittany BergNicole Sanger
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Lets fill you in!
Teen pregnancies are becoming more and more
common, yet as technology develops there are more
and more alternatives. These include clinical and
hospital abortions and adoption, preventing
unsafe back alley abortions. There are many
factors that can influence a teens decision as
to whether to have an abortion or not, such as
religion, family beliefs, and the opinions of
others.
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Thesis
Most Catholic high school students (aged 14-17)
disagree with the notion of (teenage) abortion
and teen pregnancy at such a young age.
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Action plan

• We will investigate and research statistical
  studies (secondary sources) based on teen
  pregnancies in Canada between the ages of 15 and
  19
• As we cannot ask direct questions to our fellow
  peers, (ex. Have you ever had an abortion?) we
  will gather data relating to their opinions on
  the issue and what goes on in high school
• We will then relay that data to our peers,
  presenting it using the different mathematical
  tools and procedures we have learned throughout
  the semester

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BACKGROUND INFORMATION Throughout history
abortions have caused much controversy dealing
with ethics and morality. During the 1820s,
abortions were banned as people felt they were
ruining the traditions of child bearing which
mothers were entitled to carry out. However, in
the early 1900s they were still happening, just
less frequently. The procedures for abortions
were very dangerous to the health of the women
and needed to be stopped. As time progressed,
technology developed and abortion became less
dangerous. Abortions finally became legal in the
1970s as there was an outstanding demand for
them. As there were more abortions being
performed, more people became concerned. Violent
protestors began to emerge, fighting for either
pro-life (no abortions) or pro-choice (the
ability to have an abortion). There are many
factors a teenaged girl must contemplate when
making the decision to have a baby, or have an
abortion.
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Sampling Technique
Cluster Random Sampling
- The population of high school students is
automatically divided into different groups
(grade, class) and from there we randomly chose
two classes of each grade to sample
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Bias

• Our group avoided sampling bias by surveying two
  classes of each grade. As the population for our
  thesis is all high school students, we felt that
  this accurately gathered the opinions of a wide
  variety of students
• We avoided non-response bias by making sure each
  survey handed out was returned to us
• We avoided household bias by surveying exactly
  50 girls and 50 boys
• We did not manage to avoid response bias, due to
  the fact that the surveys were confidential.
  Some students did not answer truthfully or made a
  joke of the survey, however nothing can be done
  about that. We then surveyed the appropriate
  students to make up for the data lost

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Question 1 Are you male or female?
Male Female
Grade 9 17 7
Grade 10 8 14
Grade 11 10 14
Grade 12 15 15
Totals 50 50

• This graph simply shows the gender distribution
  among the different grades

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Question 2 How old are you?

• This graph demonstrates a weak positive
  correlation

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Question 3 Are you interested in having
children?
Are you interested in having children? Yes No
Grade 9
Grade 10
Grade 11
Grade 12
Totals 92 8
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• This proves our first thesis point which states
  that most Catholic high school student want
  children of their own.

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Question 4 If you are interested in having
children, how many would you like?
Number of children desired 1 2 3 4 other
Grade
9 3 13 7 1 2
10 1 14 5 1 1
11 2 14 6 2 2
12 0 16 8 1 1
Totals 6 57 26 5 6

• Evidently, most Catholic High School students
  would prefer to have 2 children

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? This graph shows the number of children
students in each grade would prefer.

• Mean (1x6) (2x57) (3x26) (4x5) (6)
  6 114 108 20 6
  234/100 2.34
• Median 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2,
  2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2,
  2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2,
  2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2,
  2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3,
  3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3,
  3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5, 5,
  5, 5, 5, 5 2
• Mode 2

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Standard Deviation

• Mean2.34

Number of children desired 1 2 3 4 5
Frequency 6 57 26 5 6
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Question 5 Do you agree with the notion of
abortion?

• This pie chart shows that 63/100 people that we
  surveyed favoured the option to disagree with
  abortion. Therefore the remaining respondents
  chose to agree with abortion.

• Also, this proves the second part of our thesis
  which states that most Catholic high school
  students disagree with abortion

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Tree Diagram - Opinions on the notion of abortion
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Question 6
(Rank the following in order of priority, 1 being
the highest and 5 the least important.) What do
you feel is the most influential, if making a
decision towards abortion is needed?
Males
Order of importance (1 being the highest) Family Beliefs Media Influence Religion Personal views and beliefs Friends and significant others
(1) 19 7 10 9 0
(2) 8 11 4 10 10
(3) 7 2 16 11 12
(4) 5 8 11 13 6
(5) 8 12 5 5 12
This graph tells us that 38 (19/50) of the males
surveyed believed that the most important factor
in deciding to have an abortion is ones family
beliefs.
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Females
Order of importance (1 being the highest) Family Beliefs Media Influence Religion Personal views and beliefs Friends and significant others
(1) 5 8 2 10 3
(2) 8 0 5 6 6
(3) 6 1 7 3 10
(4) 6 1 11 2 5
(5) 1 15 2 6 1
This graph shows that 20 (10/50) of the females
surveyed believe that the most important factor
in deciding whether or not to have an abortion is
their own personal beliefs.
5! 5x4x3x2x1 120

• Permutations
• Since there are 5 different factors that can
  influence a teenagers decision on abortion, there
  are 120 different ways that they can be arranged.

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Family Beliefs Media Influence Religion Personal views and beliefs Friends and significant others
Family Beliefs N/A - -
Media Influence - N/A - -
Religion - N/A -
Personal views and beliefs N/A
Friends and significant others - N\A
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Question 7 Are you satisfied with the laws
concerning abortion?
Male
Female

• These graphs demonstrate the opinions of males
  and females throughout high school on the subject
  of abortion laws in Canada

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Adding Matrices
Very Satisfied Satisfied Dissatisfied Undecided
Male
Female
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Question 8 How do you feel about teen
pregnancy?
This is important because more than half of the
sample (52) strongly disagree with abortion.
Previous slides proved that 92 of the student
body surveyed wished to have children. We can
conclude that most teenagers in our high school
will not risk getting pregnant (having sex) at a
young age. Since they wish to have children, we
can assume they will wait until they are older
and ready for a child.
Grade 9 Grade 10 Grade 11 Grade 12
Agree 2 1 2 1
Don't care 13 10 8 11
Strongly disagree 10 12 15 15
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Venn Diagram
N(C U D) n(c) n(D) n(C n D) 94 48
42 100
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Secondary Sources
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• We have gathered our primary data from student
  surveys that we created. We analyzed the data
  gathered and from that we concluded with the
  previous results
• We then gathered information about abortions
  themselves from different websites

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Stats Canada Information

• The above diagram represents the percent of
  overall teenage pregnancies in 2000 that ended in
  abortion (in Canada)
• In Ontario, 57 of pregnancies in teenaged girls
  15-19 years old end in abortion

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Stats Canada Information
lt- This graph compares Canadian teenage
pregnancies with those of the United states
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CONCLUSION Throughout this investigation we
explored data relating to teenage pregnancies in
Canada over a longitudinal study. We focused
mainly on pregnancies resulting in abortions and
inquired about the opinions and views of high
school students. After studying a hundred surveys
we discovered that 63 of students starting from
grades 9 to 12, were against abortion. Therefore
high school students are aware of the
consequences that come with pregnancy and the
right choice to make.