Risks for Being Sexualy Active

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Elizabeth Rocha Persuasive Essay February 8 2013 According to the survey, analyzed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “50.9 percent of the 39,642 students in grades six to 12 admitted to being sexually active.” Adolescents start to have sex temptations as they grow older. Many fall into these temptations without thinking about the consequences and in the future, they end up regretting it. Sex isn’t something to take as a joke or a game, its suppose to be something way important than just pleasure, but unfortunately as the generations are changing, it keeps getting worse. Unfortunately, this happens because teens don’t always receive the support they need from neither friends or family. They are not given the experience talks from family, the actual good advice from friends or the knowledge from school. Students don’t always receive the support they need due to many reasons. Their attitudes give many parents intimidation to even bring up sex, and many try to avoid the subject because they think their child will avoid it too. Teens don’t try to show their emotions for many reasons, and try to hide the way they really are from parents, which can end up in a bad situation. Also, many parents are either too busy working or too bust living their own life. Some may work too much for financial problems and others may not care about their child due to their relationship problems, they may be too busy partying and living a teenage life as an adult. Adolescents may feel lonely and depressed, without a parent even noticing which then brings the irresponsible decisions, that can cause them to end up with a future no one expected. For example, if a young teen girl has parents that have financial problems, and they work most of the day and don’t get home till late. She can do many things in that bit of time. Imagine she decides to ditch school, her

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