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humphriesbr@me.com · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

Explain why teen pregnancy is higher among Hispanic and black teens and how factors associated with poverty affect the likelihood of a teen getting pregnant?

Fill in the blank with correct word.

Question 2

Both Freud and Erikson believed that

a. a person's personality is primarily genetically determined.
b. there are four stages in the development of personality.
c. while personality develops gradually over the first 15 to 20 years of life, people change very little throughout the years of adulthood.
d. people in every culture progress through stages of personality development.

tranoy · **Reply #1 on:** Jun 22, 2018

Answer to Question 1

Teen pregnancy is higher because these groups are more often living in poverty.
Poverty increases exposure to crime in the neighborhood, lack of parental involvement with the child, conflict in the family, and early initiation of sexual activity, all of which are risk factors for a teenage girl getting pregnant or a teenage male getting a girl pregnant.
Life circumstances like these make teen pregnancy seem less of a disruption of the teens future than is the case for more advantaged teens.

Answer to Question 2

d