Should high schools handout condoms to their students to prevent teen pregnancy and STDS? Every day thousands of teenagers are putting themselves at risk for pregnancies, sexually transmitted diseases, and severe turmoil emotionally. Instead of thinking about all the consequences, more and more teens are becoming sexually active without completely understanding the precautions that need to be taken when doing so. In my opinion providing teens with the option of using a condom without question would greatly decrease these risks. When a teenager feels he or she is ready for sexual intercourse they may be ashamed or afraid of entering a store to purchase contraceptives or condoms and they may fair that if they confront their parent about this, their parents may become disappointed in them or may even become angry with them.
Parents should realize this problem and talk with their children about negative effects of gun violence and to instruct on how to deal with the child’s emotions. Video games are rated by the ESRB, The Entertainment Software Rating Board, by how violent the game is and rates them accordingly to the appropriate age level that can handle the material. M-rated games require the buyer to be 17 years of age or older because of its violent and/or sexual content. In 2003 a survey shows that 69 percent of teenage shoppers were able to buy M-rated games (FTC). This percentage of youths that can buy violent to extremely violent games is mind
Explicit photos or videos forwarded from person to person can cause embarrassment for the original sender. Many teens don’t realize that once they hit “send,” control of who else sees that compromising photo is now completely up to the recipient. You may you know your friend, boyfriend, or girlfriend, but can you trust them forever? Being a teen you just have to learn from your mistakes. One reason why the law should only enforce more serious cases of sexting is because 80 percent of teens have admitted to being a victim of sexting.
Teens like us watch these adverts and think that if they look like them they will fir in and be respected. Each year thousands of teenagers exercise and go on diets just to look like them. Surveys show that girls are more afraid of becoming fat than they are of nuclear war, cancer, or losing their parents and 46% of teenagers are on diets.This is not right, we should not be pressured into looking how the media picture perfect looking teenager. In fact todays models generally weigh 23% less than the normal person. Also if you think it the average height and weight of a model is 5'10 and 110 pounds and the average height and weight of a person is 5,4 and 145 pounds, so it is extremely easy to see how this creates a big health risk for young teenagers.
In The passage ‘’The Stranger’’ (referring to the television as a he) the author writes ‘’He talked freely (much too freely!) about sex. His comments were sometimes blatant, sometimes suggestive, and generally embarrassing…’’ This leads kids to engage in sexual activity at a very early age. Parents must make sure they do what they can to keep their children from viewing inappropriate material on the internet and television. The second challenge that parents must overcome is the temptation of drugs and alcohol.
The Lost Youth of America Every day in the United States runaway/throwaway teens are trafficked for commercial sex. Homeless teens are especially vulnerable to sex traffickers. This population uses sex as a survival mechanism, trading sex for shelter and food. Pimps recognize this vulnerability and utilize it to recruit and exploit minors. Teen homelessness is alarmingly high in the United States.
Over the past few decades porn has become mainstream and easily accessible for people. We’ve also become more comfortable with talking about sex in public and in schools so that we’re able to educate the younger generation in the use of protection and disease’s. Though not all pornography is “good” pornography even to those that view any type of porn as not being a big deal, child pornography has been one that has been a huge issue among adult’s men especially. In some it makes it difficult to separate sexual fantasy from desire. November 7, 2011 a 26 year-old man was tried and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole after being charged with 454 counts of possessing child pornography, one for each picture found on his computer.
Once a teen have let down their guard in a relationship it leads to them having sexually intercourse. 87% of teenagers today are sexually active and most are sexually active with a person they are not in a relationship with. Sex stimulates feels and no matter how serious the relationship is; it will mentally affect a teen because now they are too involved. As a result of being too attach and things not working out, a teen could be angry all the time, cry a lot, or even feel worthless. Peers can influence their friends to do almost anything; this is way they play a big part in teen lives.
This claim is confirmed by impressive statistical figures: “63 percent of the youth who drink alcohol say that they initially got the alcohol from their own or their friend’s homes” (“Statistics on Teenage Drug Use”). This is an indication of the fact that parental attitude towards drinking and drug use can affect that of their child. In terms of the power of influence on young people’s minds, the community of peers used to come right after the family. However, nowadays the trends among teenagers often originate from the social media the Internet, music, and movies. While musicians and movie directors usually do not have any commercial interest in justifying alcohol abuse, smoking or drug consumption, they, perhaps inadvertently, often end up doing just that.
A recent poll released by National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy shows that 20 percent of teens admit to “sexting” (Nightingale, 2009). Sexting is the new trend in teen flirting by sending nude or semi-nude pictures to each other by cell phone. A young man and young lady meet in class. They find one another attractive and exchange cell phone numbers. Over the next few days and weeks they send each other text messages, talking and flirting.