The+Inequalities+With+Teen+Moms

 When you think of the word “Equality” and the American Dream what comes to your mind? Do you think of the inequalities that affect the overall goals of accomplishing the American dream? Do you think about who the American Dream is unequal for? Well for sure it is inequitable for impoverished areas. RAD has discovered in impoverished areas there are inequality problems with teen mothers and education. There is also a significant amount of soil pollution in low-income communities. RAD has now embarked on a mission to deal with the equality, economic, and environmental issues facing these areas. The campaign is called, “ Empowerment of the Impoverished”. We focus on making the American Dream equally accessible for teen mothers, making college affordable for everyone in impoverished areas, and respecting the environment and people in poverty by finding a solution to soil pollution. Now addressing our first issue, equality, the problem is that teen mothers face a number of obstacles including supporting her child and balancing life and school. Not many teen mothers finish school due to these circumstances. The modern American Dream consists of living a comfortable life.. How could one live such a thing if they do not have the education or support to do so? Through research RAD people discovered a number of reasons why some teens become pregnant at such a young age. Teen mothers are commonly found in places of poverty and are high in minority groups such as African-American and Mexican-American. In places of poverty there are poor education levels, reduced employment opportunities, and so forth. Getting pregnant at such an early age also can come from; knowing another single mother, living in a house with only one parent, little to no parent communication, and the parents themselves with little education. The question is: is young women solely to blame for their own unexpected pregnancy if schools in underprivileged areas could not afford sex education; if they did not have knowledge of a contraceptive‘s; if parents could not educate their own child due to little education themselves? Ultimately, teen motherhood is a societal, family‘s, and personal problem all in one. ​  In this case there are multiple solutions to this problem, solutions to preventing teen motherhood and alternatives for already teen mothers. RAD advocates, through funding for schools in impoverished areas sex education could be a class offered. Parenting classes can be offered as well, that teach about sex education and how to communicate effectively with their children. RAD encourages parents as well to give confidence to their children to participate in after school programs that would keep them busy and interested in their education. For already teen moms, RAD is campaigning that government should offer government assistance to help support teen moms, because right now government assistance is only offered to those who are 18 and older. RAD feels, by doing these simple solutions teen moms don’t have to quit school to support themselves, parents and children both can become educated, government assistance can take off some of the responsibility of a teen mother and their parents. Also by applying these solutions we can prevent teen pregnancy and stop this problem overall so they can have an opportunity to reach their American Dream. The American dream would become more sustainable and achievable because teen moms would have access to their American dream due to they have the education to achieve it. If we can solve the problem fully there would be one less inequality that stops people from reaching that specific goal. 

We'll be offering the teens birth control. If they can afford it, we'll make it affordable for them. Graph Analysis: Our graph is demonstating the percent of children living in single parent homes.The variables of the graph are ethnicity (x) and Number of children (y). The graph is relevant to RAD's topic because through research we discovered most teen moms are high in African and Mexican american women and are commonly found in single to no parent homes. The graph above shows there is a huge amount of single parent homes in the African and Mexican American community.

Our graph did not have a linear or quadratic pattern. It was a simple bar graph that expressed factual information about one of the reasons why teen girls become pregnant early. One of the reasons discovered was because many of them lived in single parent homes. The graph also supports our info because It shows a correlation between race and the issue at hand. the realationship is most single parent homes are commonly African and Mexican American homes, which is also where most teen pregnancies occur . 