Pregnancy Prevention Programs Are Still Being Left Unanswered

In 2012, President Obama funded 105 million dollars for Prevention Programs. This program was designed for teens to get better understanding of sexual education, and to help prevent an adolescent from becoming a mother (Siecus, 2012). Prevention programs can help these young girls learn how difficult it is to be a teen parent but also the risks they face when becoming a mother. These adolescents can be at an even higher risk for getting an STI, STD, and HIV/AIDS. They can also pass these sexually transmitted diseases to their babies. Because most Mexican American girls don’t have their parents or doctors to talk to about these horrifying risks prevention programs can help reduce the risks. They will be able to learn about their bodies and how to protect them with condoms or birth control. Mexican American girls may also be embarrassed to talk to their boyfriends about protection, so this is another way that the prevention programs can help, by showing them how to communicate with their partners about the safety’s and precautions. Other preventions don’t necessarily have to be from programs, they can be from anyone or anything. If these adolescents’ parents were more involved and open with their children they can prevent them from going down a very long and hard path. They would be able to explain to them the difficulties and risks they could be facing. Prevention can also be taught within a

One of the goals of Healthy People 2020 is to reduce adolescent pregnancies in girls age 15-17. The Public Health Management Corporation stated the following in their document titled “Berks County, Pennsylvania, Community Health Needs Assessment (2013)”:

Furthermore, the article displays initiative programs to help prevent teenage pregnancy. These programs include The Comprehensive Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention (CAPP) and Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP) are programs funded by the New York State Department of Health, it is designed to serve our community (Smithbattle, 2012). It provides awareness to the public on the issues of teenage pregnancy and ways to prevent this issue. Although the article focuses on preventive measures, it also includes programs to help young teen mothers such as Woman, Infant, Children (WIC) food services and the Nurse Family Partnership program. WIC is a federal assistance program intended for healthcare and nutrition of low-income pregnant women, breastfeeding women, and children under the age of five. The Nurse Family Partnership is a program for first time mothers. First time mothers are assigned a professional nurse that will visit their home up to twice a month for two years. The nurse is able to provide support, guidance and resources to first time mothers. In order to reduce the prevalence of a teenager becoming unintentionally pregnant, prevention through education and awareness is vital in reducing this statistic that burdens our local community.

These programs focus on teaching teens and youth to just say no. These programs are so focused on keeping teens ignorant about sex and conforming to standards of heteronormativity, that according to Planned Parenthood, they purposely exclude information on “…birth control, safer sex and sex orientation” (“Planned Parenthood: Implementing Sex Education”, n.d.). As Planned Parenthood also states, although abstinence is the only method that fully prevents pregnancy and STDs (“Planned Parenthood: What is Abstinence?”, n.d.), the belief that abstinence education is sufficient in guiding decisions on sexual behavior is erroneous. According to the Texas Freedom Network, sex education in the state of Texas can be broken up into two subcategories of abstinence education; “Abstinence-only 74.6% (Abstinence Programs: 27.2%, Textbook only: 47.4%), Abstinence Plus: 25.4% (Worth the Wait 19.5%, Big Decision: 4.1%, Other Programs: 1.8%)” (TFN, 2011). The lack of informed discussion prevents young women from having the knowledge to make informed decisions about their sexual health, and thus limits their reproductive

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The teenagers and children of today read about, listen to and watch all sorts of information about sex. While most adults have had some form of sex education, we must ask if this new generation is learning anything new or helpful from their sex education classes. The American culture and way of living is so absorbed in sex that children should be taught about it, people just can not agree on how to teach them. In her article New Sex ed Funding Ends Decade of Abstinence-Only, Kelli Kennedy proves that abstinence-only sex education classes and programs are not as good as regular sex education classes better than Shari Roan does in her article Teen pregnancy rates rises. Are abstinent-only programs to blame?

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One major problem in America’s society today is teen pregnancy rates. In fact, “teen sexual activity, pregnancy, and childbearing are associated with substantial social, economic, and health costs” (Sedgwick). However, this problem is not one without a solution. The rise of teen pregnancy rates can be prevented and reversed by providing better access to birth control for teens, eliminating the negative connotation that accompanies abstinence, and implementing more efficient sex education in public schools.

The Reproductive Life Plan educational material addresses the missing pieces in the health education curriculum currently provided by the high schools, which includes personal goals, violence prevention, self-image, parenting, eOur project will be based on the Reproductive Life Plan Education that will be proved twice per month at the high schools. The education consists on goals that students will set for their own futures, such as school, career, travel, etc., and think about how having children would fit with these goals. If students share that they would like to have children someday, our staff will help them to think ahead when and under what circumstances they want to plan a family. This would ensure that the students and their partners are physically and mentally ready to become parents. If the students do not want to have children now or ever, they will find out through the activities that we will be conducting how to prevent a pregnancy. The activities include identifying resources in the area by using the internet. For example, students will be assigned a contraceptive or reproductive health topic to research and then identify three types of information resources: community-based organizations, toll free numbers, and websites. A list of suggested topics will be provided and can be easily adapted how to prevent a pregnancy and what steps they need to

Society in general is currently addressing the social problem of teen pregnancy in several ways. One of the most important is an increase in parent’s willingness to not only bring the issue up and discuss it with their children, but also allowing educators to address the issue in schools.

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1. In the FoxNews.com article I read that the Obama administration's 2010 budget eliminated spending for abstinence-only programs, shifting funds to pregnancy prevention education that include abstinence as well as "medically accurate and age-appropriate" information.

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