Personal Responsibility And Work Opportunity...

Teenage pregnancy may not be one of the bigger issues of the world, like war or drug abuse, but it still holds credibility. It also does not have a high declining rate. All of the world teenagers still get pregnant, whether it be by a small or high percentage, and the government has no way to stop it. However, the government can control what happens afterwards, when the baby is born. Obviously, teens would have trouble in raising a baby on their own because they are not yet adults so they need both financial and supportive help. So the government created Acts to help and states carried out assistance programs as well. However, there has been controversy in whether or not teenage mothers deserve all of this help. Teenage mothers should be†¦show more content†¦Same with WIC, no help can be administered until they receive an affirmation from a parent of legal guardian over 18 years of age (Welfare for Pregnant Teens 2009). Now analyzing these programs in a psychological sense, they could be appealing to the masses. This fallacy states that the argument is either true or good because the masses thinks so or does it (Schick, Jr. and Vaughn 2013). Many people believe it is right for teenage mothers to get help after all most people think that since these girls are underage they cannot support themselves. This thinking is also a form of fallacy known as Hasty Generalization, or concluding a verdict on something based off of evidence applying to only a few things (Schick, Jr. and Vaughn 2013). Although sometimes it may be true it does not mean that the teenage mom cannot take care of her child, it just simply means that she needs some help with it is all. With this assumption, leading into one side of the argument: these adolescent mothers should not receive welfare payments. Staten Island Borough President James Molinaro claims that welfare payments for teenage parents is a burden for taxpayers but it also provides an encouragement for teenagers to have kids since they know they will be financially safe (Kriss 2013). Molinaro is not the only one who has this opinion. Representative E. Clay Shaw also agrees that if teenage mothers did not get money than they would be more careful when having sex (Navarro 1995). Sure this