Week 9 Final Essay By Beverly Middlebrook COM/156 University Composition and Communication II (AXIA) July 28, 2011 Faculty: Joan Snyder Thesis: Comprehensive Sexual Education is more effective than abstinence-only programs because students receive the information needed to understand sexual health, prevent unplanned pregnancy, and reduce incidence of sexually transmitted diseases. In an ideal world youth would remain abstinent until marriage, couples would stay married and maintain one monogamous relationship throughout their lives, and even as human beings with a natural sex drive, people would not act on those feelings outside of a marriage. Since 1997, the abstinence-only industry has received a total of $1.9 billion
Kelli Cason English 009 Professor Herman 11-18-2014 Persuasive Essay Final Draft Birth Control for Teenage Girls Why is birth control important for teenage girls? I believe every teenage girl should be on birth control. Regardless if they are having sex or not, birth control is very important. It helps prevent unwanted pregnancies and with medical issues. Birth control is very important for teenage girls whether they are sexually active or not.
Although the free-love movement was full swing, single women had a hard time getting the pill. Still, freedom from fear of pregnancy, women had more latitude to choose partners and determine the timing and frequency of sex when women take the pill. Despite fear of pregnancy there was a powerful check on promiscuity information that was treated as the equivalent of pornography. The pill was embraced by millions of women for a very personal reason. According to a Time in 1964, they declared that the “second sexual revolution” was built on the message that “sex will save you and libido makes you free” .Everyone’s open-mindedness was the new normal; the pursuit of pleasure overtook the pursuit of
In Anna Quindlen’s essay, Sex Ed, she gives her opinion and stresses the importance of sexual education targeted for present and future teenagers. She even uses her being a mother of two boys to her advantage in getting the readers empathy. Her being a mother, being human and normal like any other person, helps them get comfortable and see where she is coming from, as a parent. She uses personal experiences as well facts from teens, themselves. In the essay, Anna says, “[G]irls had sex with boys not because nothings seemed to matter except right now, not pregnancy, not parental disapprobation, nothing but those minutes, this dance that face, those words.
Peer pressure is so common in schools from middle school all the way to junior high. If parents aren’t able to help the next generation our future who will also be responsible for our future generations shouldn’t we give them a professional environment where they can actually learn how to be safe and handle the emotions and new feelings they get from puberty. Parents will argue against their sons or daughters to go take sex education. Fear is common that sex education will be a gate way to believing sex is ok. Sex education however provides different methods to prevent having STD’s or giving birth which happens without a basis of how to use protection.
And even though you and your boyfriend are absolutely in love sometimes its okay to break up with him or her for no reason at all, just because you woke up one day and wanted a change a bit. And then a week later get back together. The secret life of the American teenager is also an amazing show for high school. It teaches teenagers that it is perfectly normal to get pregnant is high school, and to teach them how to take care of the babies, then the shows teen mom and 16 and pregnant are good for that, it teaches teenagers how to take care of the baby and how to finish school at the same time. As you could see its perfectly okay to be 16 and pregnant because we have all of these shows to guide us along the way.
What society intended as vehicles for entertainment and bringing families together, has proven to be harmful to the minds of adolescents. Parents can no longer depend on society as a whole for moral advice in rearing children. Over two decades of research confirms that families and particularly parents are an important influence on whether their teenagers become pregnant or cause a pregnancy. In a variety of ways, parental behavior and the nature of parent/child relationships influence teens' sexual activity and use of contraception. While parents cannot determine whether their children have sex, use contraception, or become pregnant, the quality of their relationships with their children can make a real difference (Miller, 1998).
BIRTH CONTROL FOR TEENS BY: MICHELE CLARK COMPOSITION I ENC 1101 – 120 EVEREST UNIVERSITY BIRTH CONTROL FOR TEENS The age long debate about giving birth control to teenagers has gone on for decades. Some says that by giving birth control (the pill and/or condoms) to teens, we are giving them the green light so to speak to become sexually active. That it is the individual parents’ decision to make. Whereas others say by doing so we are protecting our children from sexually transmitted diseases and unplanned teen pregnancies. Birth control can be and is prescribed for more than protection.
The problem that arises with this is that their kids could try to be rebellious to their parents’ rules and be sexually active. Due to these factors, it shows that the pros outweighs the cons and it would be beneficial to have mandatory sex education classes in middle schools and high schools. By educating the students, we can reduce the amount of unexpected pregnancies and lower the rate of sexually transmitted diseases. Additionally, there are medical benefits reaped from the birth control pill that can make a major impact on someone’s life. For these reasons, it is important to support sex education in the high school
Abstinence Only Education Sexual education has evolved over the last twenty years and much has been debated over how sex should be taught in schools across the nation. Those in favor of comprehensive sexual education argue that teenagers are going to have sex because they are unable to control their sexual urges and should be taught from a “safe-sex” approach (Eske, 2003). According to the Abstinence Educator’s Network (AEN) teaching abstinence only education encourages teenagers to take control over their sexual urges and abstain from sexual activity that could put them at risk for sexually transmitted diseases, un-planned pregnancy, and emotional distress. Research shows that abstinence only education can be an effective teaching method to prevent teenagers from engaging in sexual activity. Kathleen Tsubata is the co-director of the Washington AIDS International Foundation and is the author of Abstinence-Only Programs Benefit Youth.