1.02 Parenting and Child Development

Which illustrates an emotional aspect of teen sexuality?

• Mark has extreme acne
• Martha changing her priorities 
• Ned has mood swings
• How Ollie has a strong desire for independence 

A teen mother has a low-grade fever, rash, and swollen lymph glands in the neck.  What is the most likely cause?

• exposure to harmful substances
• failure to go to the dr.
• poor eating habits
• Rubella 

A teen mother has a low-grade fever, rash, and swollen lymph glands in the neck.  What is the most likely cause?

• exposure to harmful substances
• failure to go to the dr.
• poor eating habits
• Rubella 

Babies born to teens have a higher infant mortality (death) rate than babies born to women in their twenties.  What is the most likely cause?  Babies are often born:

• overweight
• prematurely 
• to moms that drop out of high school
• to unemployed mothers 

A teen mom has trouble with her kidneys, heart, and blood circulation.  She is having convulsions.  What is the most likely cause?

• exposure to harmful substances
• high blood pressure
• poor eating habits
• Rubella

Why might a teen female be employed?

• feeling lost and alone
• having high blood pressure
• making it on her own without any help from friends or family
• missing days of school

Which is more likely a challenge for teen parents than older married parents?

• To be good parents and meet the needs of the child
• To have financial difficulties because of the added stress of a child 
• To have friends they can turn to for help for finances or childcare and support 
• To have more time to meet personal wants and needs 

Which problem illustrates an emotional risk for the teen mother?  The baby's father had a scholarship to play ball in college.

• feeling guilty about not telling the baby's  father
• missing days of school
• trying to survive
• working during the holidays

Which problem illustrates employment problems to the teen female?

• Having a child with a birth defect
• missing days of school
• Not being able to work
• The baby's father having a scholarship

Babies born to teens have a higher rate of birth defects than babies born to women in their twenties.  What is the most likely cause?

• Many teens are afraid to tell anyone about the pregnancy and do not get regular prenatal care
• Many teens are unemployed and do not have financial resources to provide for the baby
• Many teens are very emotional during pregnancy and do not know where to find help
• Many pregnant teens drop out of school because they begin to feel like outsiders around their families