The goal of sex-education in schools is to let students know safe means of birth control. Students will learn about contraceptives, reproduction, and how to cope/deal with relationships. It will teach young people exactly how risky unprotected sex is, the consequences, and that anyone can become infected. These programs also teach proper contraceptive use, as well as some sexual communication skills. I believe the rate of teen pregnancies is on the rise because of two main things.
Starting as early as kindergarten, children should be taught about relationships and to respect others. At different levels, kids could benefit from sex education . As children become teenagers, they should be taught about abstinence and the consequences of sex. Then, as studies show, by high school they are becoming sexually active and should be taught about contraceptives as well as about venereal disease and AIDS. This may not solve the high teen-pregnancy rate nor the spread of sexually transmitted diseases among teens.
You Haven’t Had Sex Yet? : How Heckerling Argues That Sex Is Essential to the Teenage Plight The most brazen argument Heckerling makes in Fast Times at Ridgemont High is that of the varying teenage takes on sex and just how vital it is to a high school student’s self and social images, however little they know about it. Heckerling depicts sex from a variety of characters’ standpoints. The easiest identifiable character in the film in which depicts this struggle with sex is Stacy Hamilton (Jennifer Jason Leigh) (IMDB). Even as a young freshman at fifteen years old, Stacy struggles with the fact that she remains a virgin.
Prevention of Teen Pregnancy: The Benefits of Sexual Education Programs In the United States, the rate of teen pregnancy continues to remain the highest in the developed world with approximately 26.6 births for every 1,000 adolescent females between the ages of 15-19 this past year. This totals to an unfavorable measure of 274,641 infants born to young women in this stage of life. Although prevention programs continue to grow and become more available throughout the states each year, their approach to influencing minors is questionable. Most engage in an abstinence-only education and believe that having teens refrain themselves from sexual intercourse is the only way to put a stop to unwanted pregnancies. Practicing abstinence may be the most utterly method for minimizing this rate, but it’s an irrational method.
Teen-Parent Communication About Sex When young people feel unconnected at home, family, and school, they may become involved in activities that put their health at risk. However, when parents affirm the values of their children, young people often develop positive, healthy attitudes about themselves, therefore delaying in sexual activity. The writer’s purpose(s) for writing these articles is because risky teen behavior is on the rise, and what are parents and families doing/not doing to promote safe behavior? I chose these articles because I am a teen parent, and I feel that if I had been able to have “the talk” sooner, more in depth, and more often, that it may have prevented my pregnancy. Teen Sexuality’s research showed a few things: Adolescents who stated that they were connected with their parents were more likely than other teens to delay sexual intercourse.
When schools pass items such as condoms around, kids can easily get the impression that it’s okay to use them. In this sentence he is trying to reach out and appeal to the parents, and older adults who have the same feeling as he does. Limbaugh believes that the distribution of condoms is not only promoting kids to have sex, but is also giving them the idea that condoms prevent all the consequences of sex. In the second paragraph Limbaugh states that, “Kids will have sex anyway, and that this logic leads to schools providing drugs, and bullet proof vests.” Although providing drugs may seem a little extreme, and maybe a little crazy, I would have to agree with Limbaugh. If schools are handing out condoms to students, what would the difference be if they are handing out drugs?
CRN:23166 Going to high school is an experience, because walking into any high school for most teenagers is like walking into another world. In one’s opinion high school could be considered a metaphor for the real world because school is a subculture in itself. The text book attests that, “While in school, young people acquire identities and learn patterns of behavior…exposed to a hierarchical, bureaucratic environment...[and schools] emphasize conformity to societal needs...” (Margaret L. Anderson, 2008). Choosing The Breakfast Club to analyze social inequality seemed like a perfect example to write about. The movie explores the relationship amongst high school students who are socially separated, are forced together and find that they had more in common than they initially thought.
This increased advertising exposes young consumers to several potentially harmful products and social stereotypes; such as, alcohol, tobacco, and sexually motivated content. The Effects of Advertising on American Youth Advertisers make billions of dollars every year by advertising their products by utilizing many different media outlets and networks. According to Committee on Communications (2006), “[c]hildren and adolescents view 40,000 ads per year on TV alone” (p.2564). These ads sometimes involve a professional athlete or celebrity advertising products that are of an adult or sexual nature. Children and adolescents see these icons and want to emulate what they see and hear, because the ideology effect they have on youth.
She avidly believes that the pressures at home from parents on their children to do outstanding in school is linked to the reasons kids turn to drugs to make them focus harder and longer. One of the author’s main claims is that students believe that the drugs help them in school when in truth Warner’s research shows a negative link between academic progress and the use of these stimulants. She uses research and statistics to prove her claim of how students falsely believe the drugs progress their advancement in school. However, her other main claim on how the parents are responsible for their children abusing the drugs lacks hard evidence or proof of that being the main reason for students to lead to the drug misuse. She does make it clear that this article is strongly intended for parents of students, especially ones to put heavy pressure and expectations on their kids to do exceedingly well in
Anthony Gross Durden Rough Draft Feb. 23rd 2012 For decades it has been argued whether or not video game violence has any link to adolescent anger and behavior problems. More than half the world’s adolescents reported having at least one video game console in their bedrooms. (2010) This has nearly tripled since 1992 when only 18 percent of teens had access to a gaming console in their homes. It’s believed that with the introduction to violent video games the aggression levels in teens has risen. This is because video games are much more interactive then movies and television which gives teens a more real control of a character that is committing these violent and crime based acts.