Research

Research

I began by looking at articles about teenage parents to see what peoples views were on the subject. As expected the majority were negative. The guardian supplied me with alot of articels that talked about teenage parents from all views. From the guaridan i started to see a few inresting stories, there is the side of the teenager that is steryotyped but there is also a factual side which states why this is. Poverty and teenaged mums are directly linked aswell as education and by reading these articles i realised it was a larger scale issue than just young parents being stereotyped. I then came across this article about young mothers and how they are sterotypes, with some witness statments and link to a website. The article is at the link below.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2004/sep/08/childrensservices.guardiansocietysupplement?INTCMP=SRCH From this i got a view of what it is liked to be named called and treated differently just because of your age your pregnant. It then took me to this website http://old.ywca.org.uk/youngmums/ this website is set up to help young mums that are facing this daily abuse and to help them with everyday tasks. Its moto is to get resepect for young mums which is exacally what my aim is for my project. The site has alot of intresting witness statments, facts and images that i have collected. It had a lot of sources that were really helpful to me and started to give me the idea of a campaign.