Fatima Miranda

2/12/18
Period 2
Can Robotic Babies Help Prevent Teenage Pregnancies?

1) The main idea of this is to aim teenagers from preventing them from having teen pregnancies
and using robotic baby designed to simulate a need one-month-old—crying baby to show the
struggle and the reality of what it is like to be a parent in a young age.
2)The connections between this text and other texts is that it giving an opportunity for students to
experience the life of a parent and the sacrifices and struggles you have to go in order to care for
your child.
3)The author purpose is to inform and let them see other students point of view to the program
that helps them experience the life of mother/father hood at a young age.
A. “Jefrin Bayona is already running late for school and it’s just after 6 a.m. “I barely slept
last night,” the 15-year-old student says. “The baby woke me up at 10, 12, four in the
morning.” Classes start early here in the rural plains of northeastern Colombia. Standing
in the dark kitchen of his home, Jefrin drags a hand down his tired face between sips of
hot chocolate. Estiven, his infant son, silently sits in a baby carrier on the sparse living
room floor (Brindley)”.
4) The audience are teenagers.
A) “He’s participating in an immersive school program that aims to prevent teenage
pregnancy (Brindley)”.
B) “Worldwide some 17 million teenage girls give birth every year, facing increased risk of
health complications during pregnancy as well as lifelong economic challenges for
themselves and their families (Brindley)”.
5) The author uses descriptions to what the program offers in order for them to understand and
have a better view to what they will be learning.
A. “In addition to the two-day simulated-baby exercise, students undergo 30 hours of
instruction, from basic sex education and contraceptive use to discussion of gender
stereotypes and roles, domestic violence, and family budgeting (Brindley)”.
6) The most prevalent use is logos. The author exercises his credibility by adding the director of
the program and what her opinion to it.
A. “In addition to the two-day simulated-baby exercise, students undergo 30 hours of
instruction, from basic sex education and contraceptive use to discussion of gender
stereotypes and roles, domestic violence, and family budgeting (Brindley)”.
B. “Sex education and the baby simulation are both important; they reinforce each other,”
says Camila Guzmán, director of the program ​¿Bebé? ¡Piénsalo Bien!—​or Baby? Think
It Over!—in Colombia (Brindley)”.
 C. “The objective isn’t to scare the students. We want to create a consciousness about sex
and pregnancy. It’s OK for them to have kids—when they’re ready (Brindley)”.
7) The possible theme to this would be that it's better to educate teenagers about what life is
when having to care for a baby in a young age.
A. “For the baby-simulation portion of the weeklong program, students are paired up to take
care of each robotic baby in 48-hour shifts (Brindley)”.
B. “Worldwide some 17 million teenage girls give birth every year, facing increased risk
of health complications during pregnancy as well as lifelong economic challenges for
themselves and their families (Brindley)”.
C. “In a study of more than 1,400 student participants in one region of Colombia, the
program reduced the teen pregnancy rate by 40 percent (Brindley)”.

8) It helped me understand the value education, than having a child in a young age that you
won't be able to support yourself and the baby emotionally, physically, and financially and
will struggle to care for it and be able to act and think as an adult for your decisions and your
baby's life.

9) I would say that they should add more people that are directing the programs to show and
explain how the program is something that will benefit them, the teens, and experience whats
its like to be able to think and be a responsible adult/parent.

10) Overall, the programs gives teenagers and insight to what parenthood is and it benefits
them to be in a position of a parent. One of the reason is that teenagers don't have much
knowledge tours sex education and how to prevent to be pregnant, but with the program
which is called ​¿Bebé? ¡Piénsalo Bien!​, they manage to get taught everything that they need
to know. “The program that Jefrin, Alexandra, and 100 of their ninth-grade classmates, ages
14 to 16, are enrolled in—with their parents’ consent—aims to prevent early pregnancies. In
addition to the two-day simulated-baby exercise, students undergo 30 hours of instruction,
from basic sex education and contraceptive use to discussion of gender stereotypes and roles,
domestic violence, and family budgeting. Students have to pass a final exam on these topics
and write an essay or shoot a video on their experiences with the babies (Brindley)”. This
shows that the teenagers will have the opportunity to have a robotic baby that is programmed
to act like a live baby, they will have to be serious about caring for it since it is part of there
grade and shows how they will be managed to make decision to what they will do next to
improve. In conclusion, this program would give many opportunities for students and have
the a lower rate of teen pregnancies once they have the experience of what it's like to take to
be a parent in a young age.