Effects of peer pressure

For my English Communication II class, we are to write a cause and effect blog on a popular subject. Peer pressure has always been a sensitive subject for me as well as so many others.  We all are affected by peer pressure at some point of our lives. We see it in the news, on social media and from our young adults.

The cause of peer pressure defers, but the reasoning for allowing others to influence you is always the same, acceptance. We all want to feel that we are a part of something, that we are not alone. We allow others actions and words to cloud our judgement.

We allow close friends to influence our choices in music, fashion, our friends and even our boyfriends or girlfriends. Our high consideration of our friends opinions hold value. We do not want to disappoint or be criticized for not following the crowed. Not all peer pressure is negative, but for intent and purposes we will only be discussing most common form, negative peer pressure.

The results of negative peer pressure is heartbreaking. We have read and heard stories of kids committing suicide due to the harassment and not conforming to peer pressure. According to Statistics on Peer Pressure, the Mayo Clinic says that teens with friends who self-injure are more likely to self-injure as well. As teenagers try to find their identity and acceptable roles, they also face pressure to give in to their new sexual desires. A study from the Kaiser Family Foundation found that:

·         One-third of teenage males feel pressure from their friends to have sex.

·         23 percent of females feel pressure from their friends to have sex.

·         44 percent of teens want more information on how to handle pressure to                       have sex and how to know when they are ready to have sex.

·         46 percent of parents have not discussed with their teens how to handle                       pressure to have sex.

We need to inform our kids at a young age to be strong and to find a way not to allow others to take control of our decisions. To learn more about the statistics on peer pressure, please visit the below link.

http://teens.lovetoknow.com/Statistics_on_Peer_Pressure

Womens Civil RIghts Lost!

Women Losing Their Civil Rights!

I read an article that informed me that women are losing their civil rights when it comes to their unborn child. Lynn M. Paltrow and Jeanne Flavinnov, wrote "Republicans in the midterm elections and the passage of Tennessee’s anti-abortion amendment, we can expect ongoing efforts to ban abortion and advance the “personhood” rights of fertilized eggs, embryos and fetuses" in their article called Pregnant, and No Civil Rights At first I thought this was great, but after reading their information, I was wrong.

The government and court system is accusing women of murder for women giving birth to a stillborn, charging her with fetal homicide. Abortions are legal in most states, but if a mother who has a miscarriage, she could be accused of murder. Paltrow and Flavinnov provided many cases where the injury or death of a fetus was not in their control, but the mother was had charges brought against her. They also gave examples of courts ordering cesareans sections, forcing the mothers to “give birth” too early.

This case floored me, “In Louisiana, a woman who went to the hospital for unexplained vaginal bleeding was locked up for over a year on charges of second-degree murder before medical records revealed she had suffered a miscarriage at 11 to 15 weeks of pregnancy”.

 I don’t understand how these cases are reasonable or how a judge can prosecute a women for a miscarriage. As a women I could not image what it would be like losing a child, never less being prosecuted for my unborn child’s murder. We know there are emotional turmoil when it comes to death. The poor women who have experienced the loss of a child and they having to go to jail. The thoughts that must be going through their mind.We need to stand together and fight for a mothers rights. We focus on abortion and are not aware of the true issue of women losing their civil rights.