comprehensive sex education‚ lack of advice from families and the carelessness of Thai teenagers. One cause of the problem is lack of comprehensive sex education. According to the Reproductive Health Survey in 2009‚ only 77.9 percent of primary and secondary school students received some form of sex education. This means that around 20 percent get no sex education. Though most teenagers have sex education in schools‚ teen pregnancy is still increasing. This shows that sex education in the Thai school
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“Condoms: The New Diploma” In the after math of the AIDs scare of the late 80’s‚ school board officials sought to create a health class curriculum that would cover sex education. This was a hot topic in the 90’s and it brought about the questions of sex education and whether it is the schools responsibility or the parents to educate their children. In Rush Limbaugh’s “Condoms: The New Diploma”‚ from his 1992 book titled The Way Things Ought to Be‚ Limbaugh claims that condom distribution promotes
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Schools are Ineffective The issue of sex education in schools has been a debate among parents‚ school administrators‚ health officials‚ and religious organizations for years. We all know that the safest sex is no sex at all‚ yet we continue to engage in that activity. If we are not‚ then we are thinking about it‚ planning on doing so in the future‚ or being bombarded by it in the media. Abstinence-only sex education persuades teens to wait until marriage before having sex‚ but totally ignores all other
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(americaspromise) Three-quarters of a million teens between fifteen and nineteen become pregnant each year. (womenissues) Most experts identify three main causes of teen pregnancy and three particularly negative effects. The main causes include lack of education‚ peer pressure‚ and sexual abuse. The main negative effects are financial instability‚ medical complications‚ and life outcomes. Before we discuss the causes and effects of teenage pregnancy lets define what exactly teen pregnancy is. “Teenage
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parenthood. If they chose to accept the responsibility of their actions and not opt for either abortion or adoption‚ they have to grow up quickly in order to face many harsh realities--these can include early marriage‚ health risks‚ interrupted education‚ lack of employment skills‚ and‚ usually‚ inevitable poverty. Teenage parents are very likely to become dependent on either their families for financial help or the welfare system‚ and to remain dependent for many years. The emotional devastation
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relegates to secondary status the most important lesson to be taught: abstinence. An analysis of the entire condom distribution logic also provides a glimpse into just what is wrong with public education today. First things first. Advocates of condom distribution say that kids are going to have sex‚ that try as we might we can’t stop them. Therefore they need protection. Hence‚ condoms. Well‚ hold on a minute. Just whose notion is it that “kids are going to do it anyway‚ you can’t stop them”
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spread of HIV among youth aged between 13 to 24. Sex education is one of the main methods implemented by the Centre Disease Control and Prevention‚ a government department. In this essay‚ two different approaches of sex education will be discussed‚ which are abstinence-only education and comprehensive sex education. Next‚ the differences between abstinences-only education and comprehensive sex education will be identified. Abstinences-only education can be defined as educating the society that sexual
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Sex Education in Schools Natonya Wachs General Purpose: To Persuade Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience that Sexual Education needs to remain a parent’s duty. Central Idea: If sexual education is to be taught in schools I believe I is necessary to place restrictions on the issue. I. Attention Getting Material A. Once upon a time your body was bare and now it’s not. Your body is growing and you will get hairy. Your no-no place will feel a bit strange and you will overcome many
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The Necessity of Sex Education in Modern Times In today’s era of social media‚ both sexual assault and sexual harassment have become an issue among teenagers. Both sexual assault and harassment in high school have been an issue for some time‚ but recently‚ frequent cases prove that current measures of sex education need to be reconsidered and renovated. A blog in New York Times states that “52 percent of girls said they had been harassed in person‚ and 36 percent online” while the
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and psychological conflicts‚ and out-of-wedlock childbearing. As a result‚ sex education should be taught at an early age as a preventative measure. Teaching abstinence and sex education at an early age is not only very popular; it also makes sense. Social science data shows that teens who abstain from sex do substantially better on a wide range of outcomes (Rector and Johnson‚ 2005). For example‚ teens who abstain from sex are less likely to be depressed and to attempt suicide; to experience sexually
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