Even children’s programming has some sort of sexual innuendo in it. It sparks there curiosity and leads to them having sex at an earlier age. Why would you not want to educate them on safe sex and how to protect themselves against disease? While I do agree with Rush Limbaugh on the fact that the only way to prevent disease and unwanted pregnancy is to abstain from sex, but what happens when they do decide to have sex and have no idea how to use a condom? There will be diseases spread and unwanted pregnancies.
Young adults who aren’t aware of the consequences of sex are more eligible to get an STD or STI. People do what they want, upon their own pleasures and desires and it may be fun for the moment, but is it worth having a sexually transmitted disease that may last a lifetime? Regardless of whom they are having sex with; unprotected sex is not a very good idea even in a committed relationship. It doesn’t change the way an STD can be contracted. So people in committed relationships should still practice safe sex, you’ll never know what can happen and it’s always better to be on the safe side.
Our textbook, along with virtually every article that is supported by facts and statistics, agree that making sex education and contraception available to teenagers is the only way to prevent rising number of teen pregnancies and STD/STIs. Truthfully, I could not find one legitimate non-religion based article that is pro-abstinence only education. Virtually ever study along with common sense should make it pretty clear, that we are not going to prevent teens from having sex with scare tactics, lies and omitting important information. The fact is sex is everywhere in the media, and in real life. Adolescents can be sponges with regards to pop culture and are going to be coping what they see until the end of time.
Many children who do not have FAS or FAE, but who were exposed to alcohol prenataly - can still suffer from one or more symptoms of FAS. We also can bring evidence that mothers who were drinking during pregnancy may find behavioural and socio-emotional problems in their children(not only in childhood)(O’Connor, M.J., 2001.). One of many dangers of alcohol consumption during pregnancy is spontaneous abortion risk (highest risk is in 1st trimester), we looked at Kesmodel et al. (2002) study and his look on previous studies - to support this statement. However there are some inconsistencies with this area of research.
Although teaching abstinence is taught to keep teenagers away from the reparations of engaging in sexual behaviors, it is not the most effective teaching method seeing the increased rate of STDs & HIV, an increased sexual influence in today’s society and the lack of education that teenagers have on sexual behaviors. Therefore, comprehensive sex education should be required in schools. Before there was a great deal of civilization, sexual education was seen from animals. In the early 1830’s ministers and reformers began to publish books and pamphlets that informed young
In addition, the majority of those teens were unaware of the health risk and impact that unprotected or premature sex can have on their lives. Today, classrooms across America are filled with students that may never marry, are gay, lesbian, or even bisexual, although, it is of utmost importance that educators emphasize abstinence, it is equally as important that school officials consider the needs of all
To ensure that pregnancy rates, STD cases, and stress levels are low in teenagers, I feel that birth control pills and condoms should be readily available to high school students First of all, the pregnancy rates of high school teens in America are showing some large numbers. In 1987, researchers were seeing pregnancy rates in high school students at some very high points. Although, “teenage pregnancy rates have declined to about seventy-five per one thousand, down from a 1990 peak of one-hundred seventeen, nearly half of teens aged 15 to 19 report having had sex at least once, and almost seven-hundred fifty-thousand of them a year become pregnant (CBS News: Healthwatch).” The availability of contraceptives is a key component in the constant downslope of pregnancy numbers. As a matter of fact, some of the teens who got pregnant wanted to practice safe sex but couldn’t afford to purchase pills or condoms as needed. It is evident that if contraceptives were available in the schools around the country, the number of teenage pregnancies would cut down drastically.
Middle and high school students are too inexperienced to know that abuse is not love. Since dating violence is a prevalent issue among teens and because of the emotional and behavioral effects, the victims, their parents and their schools need to open up about dating violence. Although teens view dating as a new freedom and independence, it can also turn into a nightmare. Many teens might not be aware that relationships can turn violent. Although “dating violence has always had this core feature of trying to control the thoughts, feelings and actions of another person” teenagers do not know how to recognize the signs of abuse (Teicher par.
According to WebMD, the top 6 reasons people abort in the United States are birth control failure, inability to support a child, unwanted pregnancy, to prevent the birth of a child with birth defects, rape or incest, or physical and/or conditions that endanger the women’s health. Even though many of these reasons may be considered valid, there are other ways to solve the problem of an unwanted pregnancy. One way to solve this problem is by adoption. The National Survey of Family Growth estimates that 14,000 babies were voluntarily relinquished for adoption in the United States. There are more couples waiting to adopt a child than abortions performed in the United States.
I believe that young teenagers should be on birth control to help resolve this problem. This is where their parents should step in and take action to prevent teen pregnancy. I believe that mature women should not be able to get an abortion just because of personal preference . it was their choice to have sex like a mature adult but when the consequence comes they want to just get rid of it. When a women is financially, mentally, and physically ready for a child and they don’t want it because they just don’t feel like careing for a child that’s wrong and I strongly agree it should be against the law.