1. Parenting Readiness
Unit 2

2. Bell Ringer
Are you ready to be a parent? Why or why not?

3. Statistics
The U.S. teen pregnancy rate has declined this past decade due to teens making better decisions about sex.
However, the United States still has the highest teen pregnancy rate in the industrialized world.
Compare…..

4. Did You Know?
Read statistics

5. FACT or Fiction You can’t get pregnant the first time you have sex
Teens would rather learn about sex online than form their parents

6. Fact or fiction
The only foolproof way to prevent pregnancy is to not have sex.
Most teens are having sex.

7. Fact or fiction
5. If you have a baby as a teen, you probably won’t marry the father 6. You won’t get pregnant if you use condoms most of the time 7. Age doesn’t matter in relationships

8. 1. You can’t get pregnant the first time you have sex
Fiction: you can get pregnant every time you have sex, including the first

9. 2. Teens would rather learn about sex online than from their parents
Fiction: most teens say they want to get information about sex from their parents. In reality, however, teens say they get most of their information from the media.

10. 3. The only foolproof way to prevent pregnancy is to not have sex
Fact: Abstinence is the only 100% effective way to avoid pregnancy

11. 4. Most teens are having Sex
Fiction: Just because you think “everyone is doing it” doesn’t mean they are. Some are, some aren’t– and some are lying. IN fact, less than 50% of high school students say they have had sex.

12. 5. If you have a baby as a teen, you probably won’t marry the father
Fact: Nearly 80% of fathers of babies born to teen mothers don’t marry their babies’ mothers.

13. 6. You won’t get pregnant if you use condoms most of the time.
Fiction: You have to use contraception every single time you have sex, no matter what. A sexually active teen who does not use contraception has an 85% chance of pregnancy within one year.

14. 7. Age doesn’t matter in relationships
Fiction: Teens who are in a relationship with a partner three or more years older are less likely to use contraception, and are more likely to report later that they didn’t really want to have sex in the first place.

15. Too Young
Answer the discussion questions…..

16. Personal readiness quiz

17. FOUR Corners
Education
Dating
Friendship
Finances
3 minutes at each poster….. How does teenage pregnancy affect each?

18. Bell Ringer
How do you know if you are ready to be a parent?

19. Bell Ringer
How do you think your life would change as a teenager if you suddenly had the responsibility of an infant?

20. Self Assessment The process of examining your personal qualities.
What are your goals?
How do you plan to reach them?
How would your current goals be affected by a parenting choice?

21. Think about it
How do you think your life would change as a teenager if you suddenly had the responsibility of an infant?
Make a schedule of your life as it is now (look at your day planner) and then make a new one based on a life with baby.
Time Budget ws

22. How would you respond to each of the following situations
You have a commitment to complete a project with co-workers, but the sitter you hired to care for your child while you’re at work never shows up.
You have to spend a week indoors and away from your friends and other activities to care for your sick child.

23. How would you respond to each of the following situations
You have to get up and go to work in the morning after the baby wakes up crying four or five times during the night.
You learn that your new baby has a health problem that requires lifelong monitoring and treatment.

24. Consequences of Teen Pregnancy
Fewer options
Health risks
Financial difficulties
Changes in education plans
Emotional and social stress

25. Fewer Options More responsibilities Dealing with school and parenting
Job opportunities
Sports and social activities

26. Health risks Before the age of 20 we are still growing
Toxemia and iron deficiency
Prolonged labor
More likely to have premature and low birth weight babies

27. Financial Problems Cost of medical care Cost of raising a child
When can you work?

28. Emotional and social stress
Learning to accommodate to babies needs
Emotional responses to pregnancy
Adjustments in relationships

29. What are some good reasons to decide to be a parent?
Love children
Raising productive members of society
Pass on some part of themselves and family traditions

30. What are some poor reasons to chose to parent?
To prove adulthood
Not a mature decision
To please someone else
Parents want grandchildren, etc.
For emotional benefits
Babies need lots of love, but they do not give love the way they receive it.

31. What are some poor reasons to chose to parent?
For respect and status
Could have opposite effect
To escape a situation
Some problems can be magnified
Because society expects it
You have to be ready yourself
To improve a bad relationship
Creates more stress

32. How do you know? Marriage Readiness Financial Readiness
Emotional Readiness
Social Readiness
Intellectual Readiness
Physical Readiness

33. Activity
Create a questionnaire that could be used for someone who is thinking about having a child to assess their emotional maturity.
10 question minimum

34. BelL ringer
If you were on your own with a child. How would you take care of him/her financially? How would that affect your goals in life?

35. Financial Planning
Children are priceless, but raising them is probably the most expensive thing you'll ever do.
Food
Clothing
Housing
Transportation
Health care
Child cost calculator

36. Signs of Healthy Relationships
The relationship is satisfying
Each person treats the other respectfully
The relationship is stable
Both people work together to resolve conflict and make compromises
Share common philosophies
Do not have serious differences or problems

37. Costs
Don’t forget about the delivery! It easily costs between $8,000-$12,000 for a normal delivery, up to $15,000 for a cesarean delivery, and much more if there are complications.
If you are covered by insurance,
it may cover most of the cost.

38. What do you get for $250,000
Naming Rights
First Middle and Last

39. A partner for blowing bubbles, flying kites, building sandcastles, and skipping down the sidewalk in the pouring down rain.
Someone to laugh yourself silly with no matter what the boss said or how your stocks performed that day.

40. The Price is Right
Come on down!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

41. BABIES: WHAT DO THEY COST? ONE YEAR BUDGET

42. The First part last What do you think about the title? Read pages 1-6
Now what does the title mean to you?