Pregnant women face many barriers when trying to get help for their substance abuse problems. Many pregnant women seek out help through the community and treatment programs but find they are mainly male centered and do not cater to their personal needs. Other barriers they face are the fear of criminal prosecution and the fear of losing their current children to child protective services. Maternal substance abuse continues to be a growing problem today. Educating more mothers on the consequences of abusing substances while pregnant will help reduce the number of children affected by this significant problem.
A person with a low education level or someone who began having sexual intercourse at an early age is more likely to contract HPV. Now there is actually a vaccine available for HPV-16. “In a population of over 2,300 healthy young women observed over a median of 17.4
FOUR CORNERS ‘Messing with heads’ Documentaries are made to inform, educate and persuade a target audience usually on current, important issues of the world. The documentary ‘messing with heads’ persuades its target audience, parents, to become more aware and concerned about the severe psychosis on young people resulting from the use of cannabis. They are persuaded to become more concerned and worried, especially with people under 20 years old. The use of a female narrator, case studies, expert opinions and re-enactments contribute to creating a powerful and persuasive argument. The onset of the documentary is started with a voice-over, a female narrator, who describes what the dominant meaning of the documentary is.
There are approximately 100 strains of HPV (human papillloma virus). HPV is a very common sexually transmitted disease (STD). HPV can cause genital warts and others and if it is persistent this may lead to cervical cancer. There is no cure for human papillloma virus. There are two vaccines (Gardisil and Cervaix) that are given to year 8 girls to prevent HPV.
I agree with the author’s opinion that intimate partner violence might lead to increased HIV risk in African-American women. This is because women who reported that they engaged in sexual activities with their partner even though they didn’t want to be was shown to be moderately correlated to being afraid to ask partner to use a condom for fear he would leave or hit. This study was created to inform knowledge about HIV among African- American Women as well as how being in an intimate partner violence relationship could affect the risk of obtaining HIV. The spread of HIV is rising rapidly, one way that we can try to prevent this is to stay informed. Being in an intimate partner violence is just one way the deadly disease of HIV can spread.
Persuasive Speech Should sexual education be taught in schools? Should sexual education be taught in schools? Yes, it should and here is why. Sex education has been a very controversial subject, the recent increase in sexual activity amongst teenagers shows that the subject should be revisited, people who are against sexual education in schools argue that the subject promotes promiscuity and liberal sexual attitudes in teenage students, what do you think? Imagine a 15 year old boy getting 15 year old girl pregnant because he didn't know the consequences that could happen when you have unprotected sex.
The author does an exemplary job in outlining cases involving youths and their sexual lives. The author is concerned that parents are letting teenagers who are in love to spend time together during sleepovers (Alford, 2013). The article is mainly addressed at the entire society in order for a solution to be found concerning the worrying trend. The
Students should be able to take sex education while in high school. The program may or may not promote sex towards young teens. Whether the school teaches them about abstinence and birth control, at least they will have an education about safe sex. Around sophomore year in high school, sex education is a requirement for the general education. The school’s job is to inform students about the process of having sex, the organs, and the outcome when being sexually active.
She tells the counsellor that the effects of these drugs is beginning to diminish and that she feels like she has to try something harder like heroin, to gain the same effect. That week the counsellor receives a call from Amy’s parents wanting to know what is going on with their daughter. Stakeholders Though the counsellor and Amy would be the primary people affected by the counsellor’s actions, the other stakeholders who would be affected would be Amy’s parents, the school and the counsellor’s supervisor, if any. Ethical Dilemma The ethical dilemma faced by the counsellor is whether he should breach confidentiality to disclose Amy’s drug
Puberty is very hard for both boys and girls biologically their bodies undergo many changes from the age of 8 up until their about 16. For instance when she states, “It’s being 9 years old and feeling like you’re not finished,” writes Smith, “Like your edges are wild, like there’s something, everything, wrong.” (Smith, 4). These thoughts have ran through the minds of many young adolescence going through puberty. However, Smiths subject appears to have many added pressures of a racially jagged society. This “black girl” that she refers to in her poem is definitely feeling ashamed and awkward about her newly changing body and has hopes of something different and maybe better to come of it.