a teen. Lack of education of safe sex, lack of attention or love, sexual coercion, poverty, learning responsibility at a young age, and social abandonment are all causes and effects of teen pregnancy. Lack of education of safe sex causes misinformation about reproduction about how one can get pregnant. It also can lead to STDs such as Chlamydia, HIV, Gonorrhea, AIDS, and more. By lacking this education whether from home, or school many teens go without knowledge of proper safe sex practices. Which
only and not to have sex until marriage. She also probably did not have access to sex education at her school or her parents would not let her attend due to religious values and beliefs. This is the plight of some teens across the nation. Three in ten girls become pregnant before the age of twenty and 750,000 teens will get pregnant every year. In Texas in 2014, there were 449 babies born to the girls aged 10 to 14. This is horrifying. At that age girls cannot consent to sex. Most of these girls
believe sexual education leads students in the wrong direction, such as, increasing pregnancy rates and encouraging sexual activities. Sexual education teaches students about the use of condoms and contraceptives. In a sexual education class, students learn about a natural part of life. Sexual education helps students prepare and think more carefully about a part of life. As a teenager learns about sexual education it encourages them to reduce sexual activities. Providing Sexual education in schools
Education The association between birth spacing and formal education in the context of age at marriage is complex. The length of time a girl remains in formal school reduces her time spent in marriage during her reproductive life, and in turn shortens her window of childbearing years. Furthermore, by forcefully removing girls from school at an early age they are unable to receive the proper information and knowledge involving sexual and reproductive rights and health (Myers & Harvey 2011; Jain &
Some people think that sex education should be in their schools to help prevent pregnancies. Mississippi had the third highest teen birth rate in the United States in 2012 (Teen pregnancy in Mississippi). To prevent teen pregnancy from happening some would say to have sex education classes in schools may help. It may not completely stop teen pregnancy, but not as many teens will get pregnant. Sex education helps teach about the abstinence as the best method for avoiding sexual transmitted disease’s
The contraceptive access is also varied across the country. Some states require comprehensive sexual education and for teens to be able to access contraceptives. Some lean more towards abstinence only education in the hopes that teens will steer away from sexual activities. There are also scattered clinics where teens can receive birth control. For many parents, it conjures up images of teenage sex or pregnancy, which can cause them to ignore its other uses. However, birth control is a broad and misrepresented
life. As soon as you come in a lot of things change. There is friendships developed, puberty changes, more partying than ever, and everyone wants to have sex just to look cool. But in reality, what are the consequences after having unprotected sex; teen pregnancy. Teen pregnancy comes with many negative consequences such as financial needs, education, stress, and having to wrap up your childhood quickly. The United States has one of the highest teen pregnancy rates in the world. 3 to 10 teen American
and emotional losses. Likewise, in The Catcher In The Rye, it is impossible for students to analyze Holden Caulfield 's actions without noting that the interactions he makes with other characters are all strongly influenced by his confusion about sex, dating, and life. For example, Holden purblindly hires a prostitute to come to an apartment he rents after leaving Pencey University, however when "Sunny" arrives in Holden 's room, he simply talks to her about his recent "surgery" and avoids any physical
have very involved statutes concerning marriage and rape. The questions about premarital sex can go beyond the religious in that the issue of disease that can play a major factor. It is said that you also sleep with everyone else that your partner has ever slept with...and it is true. Syphilis, gonorrhea, herpes, and HIV are very real sexual diseases and a source of concern. When one engages in premarital sex, one risks having contact with these diseases if one's partner is active with other partners
birth control, the government will not pay for the sex education class that is so desperately needed. It is either one program or the Smelser 4 other and it cannot be used in combination to each other. Our government should help take the burden off of our overworked parents and enable a program such as this. With the worlds population at over six billion, and a projected population of nine billion by the year 2048, birth control and sex education is sorely needed for our teens. WORKS CITED