Just started working on a questionnaire for my major assignment. My topic question is ‘What are the social and emotional affects of adolescent pregnancy on an individual?’. I am looking for feedback on these questions – what can I change to make them better? And feel free to answer the questions so I can see if I am getting the right information.
This is simply a pilot questionnaire, and so any information that is given will not end up in the final report. This is simply to find out what I need to improve FOR the questionnaire that will be included in the finished report. Thanks heaps.

1. How old are you?
2. What is your opinion in regards to adolescent pregnancy?
3. Do you personally know anyone who is/was an adolescent parent?
4. If yes, did this change your opinion about adolescent pregnancy?
5. Why do you think adolescents get pregnant?
6. Do you think the ‘Baby Bonus’ is a contributing factor to adolescent pregnancies?
7. If an adolescent is pregnant, what do you think their friends’ reactions would be? How would this make the adolescent feel?
8. In your opinion, how would the pregnancy affect the adolescent’s social life? How would this make the adolescent feel?
9. In your opinion, how would the pregnancy affect the adolescent emotionally?
10. When you see a pregnant adolescent in public, what is your first thought?
11. Do you ever consider the possibility that the adolescent may have been sexually assaulted?
12. Many people [including experts] believe that an increase in thorough sexual education will lead to a decrease in adolescent pregnancies. Do you agree or disagree? Please explain your answer.

Sorry it’s so long.
But thanks in advance.
Just clearing up something. The ‘Baby Bonus’ = money given to individuals who give birth. It has been suggested that teenagers only want the money, and so have children.
I’m pretty sure they’ve changed it a little so instead of getting a lump sum, individuals under a certain age are given it through a number of installments over an extended period of time.

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  By єנg[ησ мσяє вєттєя нαℓƒ], September 2, 2010 @ 6:43 pm

  1. 14.
  2. Been there.
  3. Yupp. My school has the highest rate in our county.
  4. Eh don’t care. They are all living off their parents.
  5. Because they are dumb. And know they will be able to keep it. Because abortion is so wrong. Blah blah.
  6. Sure. I think the financial aid makes them know they won’t be hungry if a teen parent so they don’t worry as much.
  7. Omg! I’m going to be an aunt.
  8. They’d probably live the same. Because their parents will take care of the baby.
  9. Make them feel all warm inside. *Puke.
  10. Ew. Glad I got an abortion.
  11. Nope. I think a women should have an aboriton if raped. I think it is embarrassing to keep a rape baby.
  12. Nope. I don’t think so. We are going to keep having sex. It is just life.
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  By Brandon, September 2, 2010 @ 7:21 pm

  1.16
  2.waaaay too many.
  3.yes
  4.idk not really. they were drunk and she forgot the pill
  5.accidents, stupid, want to
  6.not really
  7.they loseee friends
  8.they pretty much have no social life nemore
  9.they grow up faster, or atleast should
  10.likes to party
  11.not usually although i guess i should
  12.disagree, just makes kids wanna fuckk more hah
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  By Emma, September 2, 2010 @ 7:53 pm

  I answer it, right? I think the questions are good.

  1. How old are you? 14
  2. What is your opinion in regards to adolescent pregnancy? Pity for the parents, how do they begin to get their life back on track?
  3. Do you personally know anyone who is/was an adolescent parent? Not really.
  4. If yes, did this change your opinion about adolescent pregnancy?^^^^^
  5. Why do you think adolescents get pregnant? Because usually they make a mistake and everyone makes mistakes.
  6. Do you think the ‘Baby Bonus’ is a contributing factor to adolescent pregnancies? Not really, but I guess for some.
  7. If an adolescent is pregnant, what do you think their friends’ reactions would be? How would this make the adolescent feel? It depends how good the friends are. OK friends or bad friends will probably just avoid the pregnant person, good friends will see how they feel and lighten the burden a little. The adolescent would either feel isolated or comforted, depending on the friends.
  8. In your opinion, how would the pregnancy affect the adolescent’s social life? How would this make the adolescent feel? It would effectively bring it to an end what with having to look after themselves and the upcoming task of taking care of a baby. Isolated.
  9. In your opinion, how would the pregnancy affect the adolescent emotionally? I’d say it would result in depression, self-pity, especially if they didn’t have much emotional support.
  10. When you see a pregnant adolescent in public, what is your first thought? That poor girl, I hope she’ll be OK
  11. Do you ever consider the possibility that the adolescent may have been sexually assaulted? Of course.
  12. Many people [including experts] believe that an increase in thorough sexual education will lead to a decrease in adolescent pregnancies. Do you agree or disagree? Please explain your answer.
  Disagree. Some people just don’t listen. As a teenager, I can tell you that. All our lives we’ve been told not to smoke, I know plenty people my age who do so. The bottom line is – a lot of teenagers just don’t listen because they think it’s not important enough or they just want to live in the here and now. That’s from experience.

  Hope that’s OK for you…=]
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  By Flossy, September 2, 2010 @ 8:00 pm

  1. 23
  2. Well, I had my 1st child 1 month before I turned 19, my 2nd when I was 20, my 3rd when I was 23, and I will have had my 4th by the time I am 24 if not very close to my birthday. I guess you could call 18 and 19 being young since I was still in my teens, however knowing then what I know now, I would have waited and got myself through school and fincially stable before introducing kids into the world. I feel that parents need to grab ahold of their kids and raise them right so that they do not feel the need to get involved with someone sexually or feel pressured to fit in. i feel that alot of younger teens end up pregnant for these reasons. Not all but the majority! Some teens are raped, et married young (yes it happens), etc. I don’t approve of it but if my 2 girls ended up pregnant I would never turn away from them but I would make them take care of their responsibilities 100%!
  3. When I was younger (7th and 8th grade) I knew a girl, and still know her, just not personally, that has had like 4 kids all under the age of 18!
  4. Yes, I thought it was a da** shame that she was going through that because she was just a baby herself and she hadn’t even gotten into high school.
  5. Peer pressure, rape, get married young, broken homes, looking for “love”, not having their fathers their.
  6. Whats baby bonus?
  7. I think it depends on the person and the type of friends she has. Some people who have no respect for themselves doesn’t care and thinks it’s neat (see the dumb a** kids on Maury) and if they are friends with the same trashy ass people then of course their friends wont think any different then they do. If the kid is always looked at as popular and straight A student then her friends may not approve of that and may show their dislike in it. The person pregnant may feel out of place if they are like the 2nd type I described but like I said, it all depends on the person pregnant and what kind of people they are friends with!
  8. It will put a halt to parties, prom, dances, going to the movies, etc. The teen may feel depressed and sad, but HEY they got pregnant. Also, if one is a truely loving and caring mother, then all that social stuff wont matter.
  9. Having a child as a teen can make you very depressed and have you crying alot. I mean, you are giving your undivided attention to a baby. You get almost no sleep, no personla time, and it can be energy draining.
  10. I never think anything extremly negative. I wonder what kind of home and family support that girl has, if the father is REALLY going to help, and if she plans to keep her baby. Some kids don’t. I also pray that the mother is the best mother she can be so the baby is not exposed to any negative life style habits. I also wonder what the hell she was thinking and if she feels it was worth sacrificing their “life” for a child when they could have waited and provided more for the kid.
  11. Of course, it happens more than we realize. Parents, relatives, siblings, neighbors, coaches, teachers, strangers, etc. have all been known to rape or molest kids. I would never not wonder that.
  12. Honestly, I feel that may help a little, due to the fact that not all parents talk to their kids about sex. However, true lessons learned come from personal experience. If you got a hard headed child that just WANTS to have a kid, unless you chain her down to her bed and homeschool her, there is no stopping them!

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