Talk:How Culture and Education Can Effect Teen Pregnancy Rates

Hey there, Great information coming from your page, very informative and insightful! It would do wonders to add in some pictures, even just the cover of the movie Juno would help! I would also try to degroup all your text. It just looks a bit overwhelming at first when visiting the page, but this could be broken up by adding media and making your titles more prominent!!! Cheers!

Hi, thank you for compiling this information. I want to follow up on the suggestion from Charmaine on including more specific information about the type of education that is provided in many US schools; that is, that many states focus on abstinence-only education and do not provide any practical education such as on how to put on a condom, or information about where or how to get birth control; or open, safe discussion about variation in sexual orientation or preferences. There seem to be correlations between lack of realism (wait till marriage to have sex) and lack of practical information that is often part of abstinence-only education (and there are definitely cultural factors behind this in the US and other countries, as you've noted) and high numbers of teenage pregnancy.

Here are some links/article references that provide further information on this, including from the Guttmacher Institute. https://www.guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/facts-american-teens-sources-information-about-sex https://www.plannedparenthood.org/files/3713/9611/7930/Sex_Ed_in_the_US.pdf http://www.jahonline.org/article/S1054-139X(07)00426-0/pdf

I would also like to suggest including more variety of sources to support the data you've provided. Possibly some of these links could help towards that.

On a technical editing note: In the title, affect should be used (instead of effect).

Teen pregnancy rates have been an increasing issue over the years and you thoroughly covered that in the writing component of your page. Something that would add to your page are pictures, charts, and videos that could help the reader visualize what you are talking about in each of your subtopics. Another suggestion is possibly talking about how pregnancy rates and education differ in different cultures, which can add more depth in your analysis, since culture is one of your main topics. I hope this helps!

From a formatting perspective I would really suggest using a different approach for formatting the headings instead of just making the titles big. I think the way other wikipedia pages are laid out in terms of headings being bolded and then having the line across makes it easier to identify the different sections and also breaks it up a little bit so that it's not just all the same text. I think it would make it easier to read and navigate. Also it would help to add images, again to break up the text!