Introduction The main determinant of teenage pregnancy is commonly seen to be poor or lack of sexual education‚ but this essay will outline and explore further options such as social and economic issues including the involvement of education via both schooling and the media on sexual attitudes influencing adolescent sexual behaviour. Pregnancy amongst adolescents is common around the world; however different cultures and different geographical regions have various explanations for teenage pregnancy
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negative behavioral and emotional consequences. The prevalent and socially accepted adolescent sexual behavior in the United States has resulted in misguided views‚ risky activities‚ negative consequences for those involved‚ and a lack of effective sex education. Adolescence in the United States is defined by Miller (2007) as “. . . a person between puberty and marriage” (p. 157). The majority of studies involved in this research are teenagers between the ages of 14 – 19 years of age; their age group
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1 million adolescents becoming pregnant every year (National Women’s Health Information Center). Teenagers are engaging in sexual activity‚ and at the same time they are choosing not to practice safe sex. Why are they partaking in such behavior? There are many reasons as to why teens are having sex such as love‚ media influence‚ poverty‚ and family. The result of this adolescent behavior is childbearing‚ which has many negative effects and most teens are unaware of them. A couple of these negative
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Sexuality of the Teen and Young Adult How can we educate our teen and young adults about sex in society today? This subject is very sensitive in the home‚ in the school and even in the church. Our teens today need to be educated on this subject as statistics show that there are growing numbers of teen pregnancies and HIV/ STD cases today. In an article written by Deborah Myers‚ Educating our Teens about Sex‚ she writes that it is extremely important they we as parents start to talk to our children
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the United States are two times as high than those of Canada‚ France‚ and England. "Each year more than 1 million U.S. teenagers become pregnant; one in nine aged 15-19 and one in five who are sexually active. " How does environmental factors‚ sex education‚ etc; lead to ; lead to sexual activity which can cause pregnancy and the spread of sexually transmitted diseases". Female teenagers in 1995 had first sexual intercourse at a younger age than in 1988. Females who have had their first sexual
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because the barkada has a more profound influence than parents do and they exert pressures and expect the adolescent to conform to the rest of them. Youth today‚ from ages 15 to 25 admit to having a premarital sex experience. Almost all of them do not even use contraceptives the first time they have sex. Many of the youth are clueless that even on a single intercourse‚ they could wind up pregnant. Furthermore‚ sexually active adolescents face a variety of risks‚ including malnutrition‚ inadequate prenatal
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Academic OneFile. Web. 10 Dec. 2010. McGrew‚ Martha Cole‚ and William B. Shore. "The problem of teenage pregnancy." Journal of Family Practice 32.1 (1991): 17+. Academic OneFile. Web. 10 Dec. 2010. O ’Donnell‚ Lydia‚ et al. "Saving sex for later: an evaluation of a parent education intervention." Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health 37.4 (2005): 166+. Academic OneFile. Web. 10 Dec. 2010
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Who Cares: A Good Teacher In order to be a good teacher I feel that one needs to be open and understanding of different events that might take place in the classroom. Students today are not treated the same as they were during the beginning of education and we have a variety of students which attend our public schools. There are girls‚ blacks‚ whites‚ Hispanic‚ and Native Americans and a number of other different races participating in our classroom studies. This is a wonderful accomplishment in
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believe that the artificial way of controlling birth is against Christianity which till now is a controversy. They do not support the advocate for sex education for high school students who are in the most risky period for teenage pregnancy. They fear that it will only end up of making the situation worse because the youth is exposed in such manner of education. Let us first elaborate more of this controversial RH bill. What is Reproductive Health or RH Bill? RH Bill or the Reproductive Health bill of
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Condom Availability in High Schools across the Country Andrew W. Sampaio Tiverton High School In 1991 the New York City Board of Education created a program to make condoms accessible to all high school students upon request. The program caused parental disagreement and the school board was taken to court. Parents claimed that making condoms available to students was a health service and could not be provided to students. The board argued that the condom plan was not a medical service. They
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