Before successfully preventing teen pregnancies among teenage girls‚ there are many underlying causes and facts about the dilemma that must be first exposed. Children from homes run by teenage mothers have to face almost insurmountable obstacles in life. The incidents of depression and mental health problems‚ the lack of father figures‚ and the high rate of poverty often connected to children in homes run by teenage mothers put them at serious disadvantages when compared to children raised in nuclear
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Mrs. Fidler English 1301 2013 JUL 25 Final Exam: Argumentation Essay Although the rate of teenage pregnancies in America has dropped in recent years‚ it is still significantly higher than our counterparts in the world. Do teenagers in America have more sexually active lives than teens in other countries? No‚ in fact‚ studies show that teenagers in Europe have more active sex lives than teens in America. So what is the root cause of this epidemic? There are many; ones that society can
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Should Sexual Education Be Taught in Public Schools? In 2008‚ studies show that 50% of all teenage girls in the United States‚ ranging from ages 14-19 became teen moms. This is the highest rate of teenage pregnancy since the early 1990s and it will continue to increase if there is no intervention‚ Sexual education should be taught in public schools because it could help avoid pregnancies and decrease the rate in STDs among the youths. Teenagers can get properly educated and be provided with accurate
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Medical‚ 2006). In this case‚ the best way that as a society we could take to avoid such situations as teenage pregnancies is to sexually educate our youth. This education must come from both homes and schools. Schools should be able to provide contraceptives to their students as long as the parents agree with this. If schools were to provide easy access to birth control for students‚ the rate of teenage pregnancy could drop. Making birth control accessible to students goes hand in hand with comprehensive
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today. Many teenagers engage themselves in sexual intercouse with their partners‚ their boyfriends/girlfriends‚ just to be "in" with their friends. A teenage girl being pregnant in arly stage looked down upon with shame. Teenage pregnancy occurs due to many reasons. Some of these are; peer pressure‚ lack of knowledge‚ sexual abuse or rape‚ and teenage drinking. Peer pressure is an early stafe of pregnancy‚ it causes sexual intimacy for the opposite sex. For example‚ if a teenager hangs out with a
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and factors related to teen pregnancy include the lack of sex education being taught in public schools should include the consequences of having sex . Sex education should be taught in schools because teen pregnancies have become too common among teenage girls‚and teens aren’t developmentally ready to become parents. Today the United States has the highest rate of teen pregnancy in the developed world with the rate of 96 pregnancies per a thousand girls ages fifteen to nineteen. Although teen pregnancy
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Formal Outline Topic: Birth control access to teenage girls Thesis statement: Although teenage girls are prohibited from purchasing birth control‚ laws should be implemented to allow access to birth control as a means of managing safer sex‚ preventing the health risks and guarding them from the cycle of poverty. 1. Reasons for not allowing birth control to be given to teenagers A. It encourages sexual activity (Sex with many partners -promiscuity) B. Abstinence should be promoted
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public schools to teach sex education‚ which is an embarrassment for a country that claims to be progressive. Our public school system is still debating whether or not providing condoms in school promotes sexual promiscuity. Condoms don ’t promote promiscuity -- hormones promote promiscuity! Giving students access to condoms doesn ’t increase their odds of having sex‚ it just increases the odds that they ’ll have safe sex (Siebold). One school that has begun teaching sex education is in Provincetown
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Joshua Kendall Professor Baker English 1101 16 March 2013 Effects of Sex in the Media on Adolescents Everywhere we go the media is always around us. Through television‚ radio‚ internet‚ movies‚ video games; we cannot escape media’s influence. The media is full of sexual images and themes that can be unhealthy for a growing mind to view. The prevalence of overtly sexual content in the media influences teenagers to be promiscuous. The abundance of sexual material in the media
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Let Me Live My Life‚ Privately “Why are you in my room?” a sixteen year old demanded of her mother. “Just cleaning up a bit” her mother responded‚ puzzled by the intensity in her daughters voice‚ “I can clean it myself‚ get out of my room‚ and stop invading my privacy!” “Leave me alone”‚ “get out of my room”‚ “just let me live my life”‚ these lines are commonly used by teenagers when arguing over the privacy aspect of their life with their parents. The majority of teenagers are constantly
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