Due to the influences of the media teens believe it is ok to have lots of sex without taking proper precautions. There are many teens who do not even know the dangers that sex brings. Unprotected sex can lead to unplanned pregnancies, STD’s and HIV. While all of these effects of unprotected sex are bad, HIV is one that is increasing the most each day. HIV is a disease that is sweeping the nation due to multiple partners and unprotected sex.
Teens are bombarded with sex education, and yet have the highest STD rates in the country. Graduating these kids 2 years sooner just doesn’t make sense, and would only lead to more STD’s among college-age
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.
They are more prone to catch sexually transmitted disease and have a high chance of not succeeding in adulthood. Massachusetts has established some pregnancy prevention programs to minimize the pregnancy rates. Many young teens get pregnant early on in life and it interferes with their schooling, finding care for
Lupus can affect anyone, but it’s been shown more commonly in women in their child bearing ages, which are the ages between 14 and 44. “Lupus affects nine times more women than men.” (Crosta) Lupus is also more common in Latina, Asian, and Native American women. Men are at a higher risk before puberty and after the age of 50 years old. Despite an increase in lupus in men in these age groups, two-thirds of the people who have lupus before puberty and after age 50 are women. African Americans and Latinos tent to be diagnosed with lupus at a younger age and tend to have more severe symptoms, including kidney and heart
Teens, Television, and Toddlers Today in America, an average of three in ten girls become pregnant by age twenty (McKinnell 41). Adolescents are the future to the United States, therefore it is important for teenagers to make good decisions. However, premarital sex has become a negative, but popular choice that can lead to teenage pregnancy, which prevents teenagers from living the easiest and most stress free life. The teenage pregnancy rate in the United States increased in 2006 for the first time in fifteen years and now the United States has the highest teen pregnancy rate in the world (McKinnell 41). Although there are many factors that could have contributed to the increase in teenage pregnancy, the media plays a huge role.
Untreated, it can cause severe health consequences for women. Up to 40 percent of females with untreated Chlamydia infections develop pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) – a condition, which can lead to such long-term complications as infertility, ectopic pregnancy, and chronic pelvic pain. Complications from Chlamydia among men are relatively uncommon, but may include epididymitis and urethritis, which can cause pain, fever, and in rare cases, sterility. In addition, studies suggest that the presence of Chlamydia infection increases the risk of HIV transmission. I will develop a program that will educate teens and their parents about Sexual transmitted diseases.
In order to solve a problem, you have to find the root cause of it. But with so many possible culprits, is there really any way to return to the 'old days' where it was hardly seen? I feel the cause to the uprise in teen pregnancy can be laid at the feet of many different suspects. The media, and it's glorification of not only sex,
Approximately 62 million women are with their child-bearing years in the United States. Ten percent of who are under nineteen. Meanwhile only six percent of women, whom are on any form of birth control, get pregnant while on a contraceptive. With the numerous amounts of teens openly having sex, birth control should be much needed. The rate of teen pregnancy is high, as you can see in mainstream America.
Some 70 percent of all women in China use contraception. Puberty tends to start earlier as countries develop and children’s diets improve; in China the starting age has fallen from 14 ½ to 12 ½. Meanwhile the average age of marriage has edged up, from 20 to 22, extending to the time that many young people can be sexually active but unmarried. The abortions rate among young, single women is rising. It is a moral outrage to have a child before marriage than it is to have the shame associated with an abortion.