1. Teen Living Objective 3.01-3.02
Factors that Affect Relationships
Consequences & Risks of Youth Parenting

2. Dating Allows people to learn what qualities you like in a partner
Abstinence = postponing sexual activity
Learning refusal skills helps teenagers practice sexual abstinence

3. Character Traits Related to Dating
Self-esteem = the way that one feels about oneself
Poor self-concept = having a negative image of oneself
Compromise = each person gives up something to get something
Trust = the best way to gain
another person’s trust is to be
honest

4. Pregnancy in Teenagers
Babies born to youth parents are more likely to have lower than average birth weight
Fetal alcohol syndrome = condition that develops in a baby born of a mother that drinks alcohol during pregnancy
Smoking will harm an unborn baby
Even taking aspirin during
pregnancy puts the unborn
baby at risk

5. Consequences of Teenage Parenting
Emotional = feelings of isolation, despair, and frustration
Future = dropping out of school to have a job to pay for child support
Social = giving up activities with friends
Financial = the younger a girl is when she has a baby, the more likely she is to live in poverty
Physical = toxemia (pregnancy induced high blood pressure) can develop during pregnancy

6. Teenage Parenthood
Social Services = government agency that helps with financial assistance
Helps secure child support payments