Contraception Education and the Medias Influence
Contraception education and the medias influence. CSS101
You hear the term adolescent often in your life mostly referring to someone who is one or sitting around reminiscing on when you were one, this term is generally associated with teenage years usually beginning during the stage of puberty continuing through early adulthood typically thirteen to nineteen years of age. The stage in life when human development is at the fore front both of your life both psychological and physical, physical puberty occurs at different ages for boys and girls but has basically the same results, our bodies becoming mature and capable of sexual reproduction. Unfortunately the psychological part of the development may not come as quickly as the physical for some and for some it may be forced to happen quicker by their environment. Most often being a teen means starting high school and getting to hang out with friends going to parties and falling in love for the first time, plus getting your first car, its supposed to be the best time of your life. Some teens speed up the maturing process by becoming parents to early, some by choice and some by not protecting themselves either for lack of knowledge or just not using contraception.
For most the four years in high school are great learning new things everyday getting to experiment in science taking a field trip in history everything fun you can remember from school. The most popular subject in high school is usually sexual education or sex Ed as most call it the class where we learn about human sexuality issues including abstinence and contraception. This definition has gotten lost in translation while getting to high schools, the US Sexual education programs have a higher focus on abstinence than prevention and has been focusing on it for a while (Card, 1999). Abstinence programs do not work (Commendador,
2010) we find more
You hear the term adolescent often in your life mostly referring to someone who is one or sitting around reminiscing on when you were one, this term is generally associated with teenage years usually beginning during the stage of puberty continuing through early adulthood typically thirteen to nineteen years of age. The stage in life when human development is at the fore front both of your life both psychological and physical, physical puberty occurs at different ages for boys and girls but has basically the same results, our bodies becoming mature and capable of sexual reproduction. Unfortunately the psychological part of the development may not come as quickly as the physical for some and for some it may be forced to happen quicker by their environment. Most often being a teen means starting high school and getting to hang out with friends going to parties and falling in love for the first time, plus getting your first car, its supposed to be the best time of your life. Some teens speed up the maturing process by becoming parents to early, some by choice and some by not protecting themselves either for lack of knowledge or just not using contraception.
For most the four years in high school are great learning new things everyday getting to experiment in science taking a field trip in history everything fun you can remember from school. The most popular subject in high school is usually sexual education or sex Ed as most call it the class where we learn about human sexuality issues including abstinence and contraception. This definition has gotten lost in translation while getting to high schools, the US Sexual education programs have a higher focus on abstinence than prevention and has been focusing on it for a while (Card, 1999). Abstinence programs do not work (Commendador,
2010) we find more
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