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Wealth, power, and teen pregnancy

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I am writing a paper usin the following instructions below and I was thinking about writing on he topic of "Teenage Pregnancy" Can you give ideas and help in try to put this paper together?

Select a contemporary issue that that has generated polarized view points (environmental policy, taxation and income redistribution, benefits for same-sex couples, worker's rights, and etc.). After selecting the issue, describe the competition between elite groups and/or special interest groups in regard to related policy decisions and how the issue has been debated. For example, one could examine environmentalist versus big business approach to the question of whether the lumber industry should have access to old growth forests. Or, one could examine how specific institutional elites have competed over issues such as free speech or "family values."
After providing the information requested above, provide your own assessment of whether or not the factionalism you have described has contributed to a healthy debate regarding the selected issue and provided equitable outcomes in regard to related public policy. Is Madison's hope that the checks and balances in the Constitution and the existence of opposing factions working sufficiently so the general good is not being sacrificed for the good of powerful elite and special interests?

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This discussion is an outline of directions for a paper on wealth and power and how it affects the problem of teen pregnancy. Several main topics and directions are given.

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I like the topic and would approach it from the point of view that the elite and the poor have problems with teen pregnancy and back up the basics with some facts from sites like, http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/2006/09/12/USTPstats.pdf .

Then also introduce and follow the path of special interests such as ...

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