The Importance of Comprehensive Sex-Education in Schools Sex is huge, sex is important; everyone cares and has something to say about sex. Sex oozes from every pore of the culture and no kid can avoid it. Are teens getting enough knowledge on sex and how to prevent teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases,(STD’s)? Comprehensive sex-education promotes abstinence but it also includes information about contraceptives and STD’s, while promoting safe sex if a student chooses to engage in sexual activity before marriage. Me, personally, my parents did not give me the birds and the bees talk, but I was afforded the opportunity to take sex-education in high school.
Although God created us all equal that is far from how your peer groups accept one another. There would be less teen suicides if each group simply accepted each other and their differences, not alienated each other. Some believe high school cliques can be demeaning and cause lifelong trauma to one’s self esteem. The popular group of kids is made up of the jocks, cheerleaders, and designer dressing young people who normally walk around thinking that grade’s and other people’s feelings does not matter. This group is usually your more attractive, stylish, snobbish group.
Imaginary audience arises from the larger concept of adolescent egocentrism. Teens will feel that the imaginary audience is always commenting and judging them, teens at times can get caught up in their imagination and consider themselves “celebrities” but no one is actually watching them. The adolescent get so caught up in their imagination, that they develop a mood for their “audience”. The mood that the “audience” usually has is the attitude that the teen has that day for example if the teen feels self conscious than the “audience” is going to be judgmental. Children in childhood have imaginary friends, and they do believe that “others see what they see, know what they know, hear what they
The accepted trend seems to be the “preppy†look that sends the message that since the person can dress well, they are well on their way to a bright future. Most of the Ravers I have met, however, do not care much about other people’s opinions. Even so, the opinions are still made, and the general analysis is that these kids are drug-addicted partiers that have no future. A lot of times this is true. What I have witnessed is a bunch of bored middle-class white kids looking for something to
The article also suggested that teens also listened to the information better when it came from their parents rather than school, or other outside sources. Sex and Teens: Why Abstinence Isn’t Working from Oprah Magazine stated that a growing number of studies is proving that school abstinence programs have little impact on adolescent sexual behavior. Worse, new research suggests they could even be endangering kids by failing to
This quote is saying that although some kids grow up fine in a different race family, some do not, in which they faced a lot of hate from people of the community, affecting them mentally and physically. Kids in transracial adoptions are not as prepared for the community and people around them when it comes to hate and racist comments, compared to someone living with people of the same ethnicity. However, statistics show that the children do not differ from others of the same race, even if they are adopted. It states, “Children of interracial adoptions grow with the same sense of pride and develop the same family relationships as birth children raised in the same households.” (Source C). This means that those kids who know the difference between their family, due to their race, are more knowledgeable and shown to be more proud of their ethnicity.
Web. 29 Jan. 2013. . This article states that most mothers think that it is okay to spank your children. They do not abuse their children but if their child has something wrong they think that it is okay to spank them so that they learn their lesson and do not make the same mistake again. People who have low income are more likely to spank their children than a wealthy family.
Summary Sex education is used to inform young people on relationships and intimacy. It also is used to inform them on all the negative outcomes sex can cause like diseases and unwanted pregnancies. Yet, programs like abstinence don’t really help people to stop having sex. Abstinence-only programs tend to take credit of the decrease on teen pregnancy but in reality it is the fact that 88% of teens have been taught in school about HIV and STDs. There are 3 federal programs that fund for abstinence-only education getting $102 million in the year of 2002.
Larzelere (2000) found that the most beneficial outcomes tended to occur when physical punishment was used non-abusively, flexibility, and infrequently as a backup to other disciplinary methods. However, Larzelere (2000) also found that spanking was shown to have no better effect on the obedience of four to nine year olds then six alternative methods. People may argue that parents should be able to choose between the various alternatives including non-abusive spanking as a disciplinary method. There are many researchers who believe that physical punishment is the way to discipline a child. Harding and Ireland (1989) argue that corporal punishment is easy and quick to apply, does not take much skill, and is readily available when needed.
They often act more as a friend to the child than a parent. Children that are raised using the permissive style of parenting are often considered spoiled and unruly. They may tend to have drug problems and behavior problems in adolescence due to the fact that they have never had to control their behavior because they always seem to “get their