Reproductive Life Plan

The book also discusses the teaching of family planning in school at a young age and in the community for young women.

Sex education should be implemented at an early age beginning at the middle school level. A discussion of contraception, the risks of diseases, the risk of becoming an unwed teen parent and the disadvantages of not having an education will help decrease the number of teen pregnancies with future generations. Parents should not feel threatened of having their children learning about sex in class. Parents should feel empowered; it will allow their children opportunities to feel they are able to discuss future topics of sex at home to help promote

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)”:

Barr et al. (2014) study reported in the study that sexual education taught only by the teachers would be effective in preventing teen pregnancy. The teachers would have to be competent, skillful and content on the subject of sex with the student. The National Teacher Preparation Standards for Sexuality Education is an unexpected effort but with years to come the program will become active (Barr et al., 2014). The results of the study indicated that by letting teachers teach teens about sex education decreased teenage pregnancy (Barr et al.,

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.

Clemmitt (2010) states that currently the most effective approach to prevent teenage pregnancy is evidence-based sex education programs. The primary debate about the best method of preventing teenage pregnancy is between abstinence-only courses and comprehensive sex education. The author says that after operating comprehensive sex education, the Obama approach, many communities and county areas have drastically reduced the rate of teenage pregnancy. Studies and statistics suggested that abstinence-only courses have not contributed to reduce teenage pregnancy rates. The author points out that the abstinence-only courses also include sexually transmitted diseases classes and discussions of unhealthy relationship and making decisions, and abstinence

The teen birth rate in New Mexico has declined by 35 % over the last decade. However, New Mexico is the second highest teen pregnancy in the nation. Unintended pregnancies within our community of Las Cruces, NM have evolved into a public health issue within the Dona Ana County. The goal for the community of Las Cruces, NM is to build a public health program that will help reducing unintended pregnancies among teenagers. By establishing a prevention program, our purpose is to educate teenagers on the planning their pregnancies. This project will increase the number of desired and healthier babies.

The National Survey of Reproductive and Contraceptive Knowledge includes approximately 1,800 national men and women who are unmarried and between the ages of 18 and 29. Individuals were contacted randomly by phone. All females who responded to the survey were included,

The programs that are involved in the quantitative evaluation of New Hanover County School are My Life: Choices Today for a Healthy Tomorrow abstinence-only and Stepping Stones to Better Living: Responsible Decisions abstinence-based. These two different programs are taught during the students’ regularly scheduled Physical Education /Health course in public school. Parental consent is required for both education programs. The target population is eighth grade students ages 11- 14. The target population is all the people in schools, communities and school board (Sharma and Petosa, 2014). The “My Life: Choices Today for a Healthy Tomorrow” involves eighth grade students. My Life program is an abstinence until marriage, and reproductive health and safety education course that promotes optimal health outcomes for teens.

The planned birth method that Vincent’s parents used to conceive Anton seems really bad but can be a good thing because you can eliminate bad disease in the world. The quote “The child is still you… the best of you” explains that the offspring is still you but it just doesn’t have bad genes. This is good if you don’t want your child to have like huntington’s disease and etc. If everyone were to do planned birth method to our offsprings, could their generation cancel out hereditary diseases, because they wouldn’t have it if we “took them out”? But the disadvantages for this method would be that there would be no differences. We could change how tall they would be and what eye color and etc. Seems creepy. So I think that there are advantages and disadvantages to the birth method.

For the person(s) whom are not yet ready to bare children- the resources are there. Twenty options of birth control, responsibly practicing abstinence, and learning about sex education; one can grasp a better understanding of their pregnancy prevention if at least one of the methods are chosen. Overall, these methods fit accommodations for everyone regardless of belief, age, gender, cost, procedure, and

The implementation of sex education in schools will provide teenagers with the appropriate information about sexual disease and early pregnancies. In the last five years, this theme about Sex Education is expanding ever so gradually within the schools. However, the statistics keep the subject of Sex Education alive in schools by having it be implemented as programs. Schools administrators should have more programs and people who are well trained to help students with learning about Sex Education. After all, the teenagers would be the most vulnerable victims for not being well informed; they could catch a sexual transmitted disease or perhaps get pregnant. Also, the parents and community are an important role in learning about Sex Education. Simply by having an open mind and thinking about the safety and future of their children, we as parents can create a safer environment for our children. One technique could be by providing condoms at schools to teenagers as a demonstration of consciousness about how to protect the teenagers from early pregnancy or a sexual disease.

The guiding research questions for this study include the following:•What is the knowledge level of adolescent girls about reproductive health issues generally?•

According to a study in 2013 by National Vital Statistics Report, a total of 273,105 babies were born to women aged 15–19 years (qtd. in "About Teen Pregnancy"). Children need to be getting a better education on sex during middle school and high school to be better prepared if they decide to engage in sexual activity. Sex should be taught from a different approach than in recent years. Sex education should be incorporated in all schools starting around 6th grade and continually throughout high school because teachers can give a better understanding of sex which will reduce the number of teen pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections(STI). The early start of sex education would benefit the kids in the long run and will make the

Many teenagers are now becoming parents these days. In fact, from the ages of 15-19, there were 249,078 babies born in the United States. (1) Many of these unwanted pregnancies can be prevented with the help sexual education. Yes, in some schools there is sexual education. But, if it was in every school many of these could have possibly been prevented. At the school I attend, sexual education is not offered. We are faced with several unwanted pregnancies, and with sexual education, I think these could be prevented.