...In the article “Explicit Lyrics Encourage Teen Sex” by author Sarah Knoploh she address how todays music has become progressively more foul and sex oriented. She reference’s famous artists such as Drake, Lady Gaga, and Jeremiah and some of their popular songs that have been on the top charts and breaks them down as to how these artist are explicit. Knoploh takes a song from each artist and breaks down the lyrics for example she takes Drakes song “Best I Ever Had” and looks at how many times it says the F word or the N word. She then explains that by Drake using these words he is encouraging are youth to cuss and use fowl language more frequently in their everyday life. Knoploh also shows that not only are these songs shaping are youth in the ways of drug, sex and foul language but it is also that the music videos are not helping this at all. She talks about how lady Gaga’s “Love Game” music video includes her making out with other girls along with the explicit lyrics. The “Love Game” music video was so explicit that Australia has banned it from their country because it was too hard for them to censor. At the end of the article Knoploh address the fact that not all music videos and songs are...
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...Abstinence only versus Sex education in preventing teen pregnancy Anamika Laddha Chamberlain University Abstinence only versus Sex education in preventing teen pregnancy Introduction United States has the highest level of teenage pregnancy amongst the industrialized nations – nine times as high as Netherlands or Japan, twice as high as England and Wales or Canada. Over eight hundred thousand teenage girls get pregnant each year, most unintentionally (The Alan Guttmacher Institue, 2000). Four out of ten young women become pregnant at least once before age 20. Moe than 80% of these pregnancies are to unmarried teens (National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, 2004). Teenage pregnancy usually refers to girls who have not reached legal adulthood. World Health Organization defines Teenage Pregnancy as “any pregnancy from a girl who is 10-19 years of age,” the age being defined as her age at the time the baby is born. It is not limited to any social, economic, racial or ethnic groups. It is a serious issue that has effect on all of us and should be a concern from obstetric and socio-economical point of views. Factors Contributing to Teen Pregnancy The reasons behind teen pregnancy are complex, varied, and typically interconnected. As Sisson (2012) points out that teen pregnancy should not be looked as isolated issue and it must be understood within context of social complexities and inequities all of which needs to be effectively addressed in order to be one step closer...
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...framework in documenting gender portrayals in teen movies and investigating the influence of exposure to these images on gender-based beliefs about friendships, social aggression, and roles of women in society. First, a content analysis of gender portrayals in teen movies was conducted, revealing that female characters are more likely to be portrayed as socially aggressive than male characters. Second, college students were surveyed about their teen movie-viewing habits, gender-related beliefs, and attitudes. Findings suggest that viewing teen movies is associated with negative stereotypes about female friendships and gender roles. Research examining the effects of media exposure demonstrates that media consumption has a measurable influence on people's perceptions of the real world, and, regardless of the accuracy of these perceptions, they are used to help guide subsequent attitudes, judgments, and actions. For example, these results have been yielded for viewing media representations of race,1 the mentally ill,2 and the elderly.3 Past research additionally indicates that watching televised gender portrayals has an effect on individuals' real-world gender-based attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors.4 Based on this research, and the tenets of social cognitive theory, it would be expected that consumption of teen movies would have an analogous influence on audience members' gender-based attitudes and beliefs. Despite the popularity of teen movies, the influence of such films on emerging...
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...Teen Sex As a parent of a teenager, I find some of the information on teen sex frightening. It is a subject I read, talk, and learn as much about as I can. The information I gather will help me filter fact from fiction. I want that knowledge to help my teenager thrive in this difficult time. In reading about this problem, I have learned that there are many sources of information. This information helps understand the scope of the problem, the consequences on youth, and the effects on families, schools and the community. It also explains the relationship between sex and other at risk behaviors and, thankfully, ideas on ways to prevent it or at least intervene if it has already happened. When I read the 2005 Wisconsin Youth Risk Behavior Survey Executive Summary and found that 40 percent of teens surveyed have already had sex, I was astonished (Wisconsin). The survey is a questionnaire that 2,389 students in 52 public high schools completed anonymously. Although the statistics are frightening, the reality is that many more teens are experimenting with sex. One way they are experimenting is with oral sex. In fact, oral sex is more common than intercourse. “Oral sex is often viewed so casually that it needn’t even occur within the confines of a relationship…it can happen at parties, possibly with multiple partners” (“Teens” 1). Donna Jolley, a psychotherapist who treats families, agrees that oral sex among teens is on the...
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...on what the consequences of having sex can come with. The media plays a huge roll in this because they believe that sex sells. In some peoples eyes this statement is true, however, I think that this is causing many kids to get themselves in trouble. Many children see things on the television and in the magazines that are inappropriate, but they do not see it that way. If a child see’s a famous celebrity or famous athlete that they look up to doing something, chances are they are going to do it as well. Adolescent pregnancy is such a huge issue right now because the younger generations are not getting the proper education on what can come from having un-protected sex. There are far too many young girls becoming pregnant before they even get their GED because they are having un-protected sex. If these young girls and boys were getting the proper education on sexual education, the rate of teenage pregnancy would go down. Today’s society needs to wake up and realize that far too many young girls are getting pregnant due to our lack of teaching them right from wrong. There is nothing wrong with becoming pregnant if you are in a relationship, and you both are on board with bringing a baby into this world. However, 82% of teen pregnancies are not planned (Guttmacher, 2015). There are so many young kids who are having un-protected sex whenever they want without even thinking twice about it. Many of those girls are ending up pregnant. Thankfully, teen pregnancy rates are on a constant...
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...teenagers from participating in sexual activity, but we can provide them will tools that will allow them to be safe. Many teenagers are interested in engaging in sexual activity and need to be protected. By the age of nineteen, seven out of ten teens engaged in intercourse (Mosher 47). As teenagers become sexually active, more than half don’t use protection. In a survey hosted by Today.com, it was concluded that 52 percent of the respondents do not use protection when having sex. A sexually active teen who does not use a contraceptive has a 90% chance of becoming pregnant within a year (Abma 21). The Alan Guttmacher Institution stated 1.2 million teens become pregnant each year (Bender 13). The statistics are shocking to many, and they will continue to grow if teenagers don’t practice safe sex. If public schools distributed contraceptives and students took advantage of it, then there would be a decrease in teen pregnancy rates. On average, teenagers lose their virginity at the age of fifteen (Coffey). Because the majority of these sexually active teens are under the age of 18, many teenagers that are interested in sex are too scared to buy condoms or use birth control in fear that their parents will find out. The percentage of teenagers having sex without condoms rose from 38 percent in 2009 to 53 percent in 2011 (Romero). Teenagers are sexually active, but are too embarrassed or have no way of obtaining condoms or other contraceptives if they are not...
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...exposed to sex through various media outlets, the need for sexual education in public schools is necessary. Instead of abstinence-only education, which teaches refraining from sexual activity until marriage, today’s youth needs to be informed about the various aspects of sexuality including pregnancy, contraception, STDs, and abstinence. According to a survey conducted by National Public Radio, The Kaiser Family Foundation, and Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, ninety percent of American parents believe that comprehensive sexual education should be taught in public schools to students in grades 7 through 12. This type of education encourages abstinence, but also teaches proper condom use and other contraceptive methods to protect youth from unwanted pregnancies and STD (“Sex Education in America”). In order to reduce the risk of teenage pregnancy and the spread of sexually transmitted diseases, Douglas Bernard Kirby, Ph.D. from the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy states in his 2007 publication of Emerging Answers: To be effective, such programs must be straightforward and specific; for example, they might discuss realistic situations that could lead to unprotected sex and methods for avoiding those situations, for remaining abstinent, and for using condoms and other contraceptives. (Kirby 16) Even though studies have shown mixed results towards comprehensive sexual education, there have been positive effects on teen sexual behavior...
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...Who is Responsible for Sex Education? Writing 291 Joseph A. Marco 22 July 2010 Public schools systems have been implementing sexual education into their classrooms as a regular part of instruction for decades. Ongoing controversies exist when dealing with this issue whether sex education being taught in the public schools or whether it should be considered the responsibility of the parents. It seems most parents are either for or against it and very rarely are they standing on middle ground. Given the statistics does it matter who teaches the children of the United States the basics of sex education? Children should receive a basic unbiased and informative sex education in school, from their it should be the parents responsibility. By their 18th birthday, six in 10 teenage women and more than 5 in 10 teenage men have had sexual intercourse. Of the approximately 750,000 teen pregnancies that occur each year, 82 percent are unintended with more than one quarter ending abortion. The United States continues to have one of the highest teen pregnancy rates in the developed world – almost twice as high as England, Canada, and Wales and eight times as high as the Netherlands and Japan. In addition to the teen pregnancy rate, the teens in the United States contract roughly nine million new sexually transmitted infections (STI’s) each year. Though teens in the United States have levels of sexual activity similar to levels among their Canadian, English, French, and Swedish...
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...Teenage Pregnancy in the U.S. Brandon Lisak Principals of Sociology 4/31/2014 “Each year in the U.S. almost one million teenagers become pregnant at enormous costs to themselves, their children, and society”. (Pregnant Teen Help, Teen Pregnancy Statistics) Some would argue that teen pregnancy is all glorified. Other individuals would protest that it is too influential. Teen pregnancy is a rising social problem in the United States and among other countries. Teen pregnancy is now being publicized as multimedia corporations, with shows such as “16 & Pregnant”, “Teen Mom”, “Maury”, “Secret Life of the American Teenager”, and “Juno”. All of which concentrate on teen pregnancy. These shows or movies could be informational for young people. However, the shows display an altered reality that teen pregnancy is easy, laughs and joy. Despite what the shows might portray teen pregnancy is an uprising national and global epidemic. In the past teen pregnancy has been an underline issue that is vastly taking center stage. Media, education, and economy are all components to this phenomenon, nevertheless, how are they all connected? All of which will all be addressed in the contents of this paper. Which leaves the burning question, is teen pregnancy accepted into our society as a norm, or is it still a deviant act? First and for most, there are many different definitions of teenage pregnancy depending on the source of the information. However, as a broad definition defines teenage...
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...labeled “missing,’ coded as IAP. A large number of the responses may be labeled “missing,” coded as IAP because the respondent was not asked the particular question. 14. In order to save or print output, which SPSS Statistics window should be the “active window”? In order to save or print output, the SPSS Viewer/Output window should be the “active window.” 15. In order to save your data file, which SPSS Statistics window should be the “active window”? In order to save data file, the Data Editor window should be the “active window.” Page 77 1. (RACE) The largest racial grouping of respondents to the 2012 GSS was _White _, with _74.6 %. The second-largest grouping was __Black___ with __15.0____%. Statistics race RACE OF RESPONDENT N Valid 1500 Missing 0 Mean 1.36 Median...
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... Adolescent Sexual Maturation Adolescence is a challenging period for both children and their parents. Three stages of adolescence - early, middle, and late, are experienced by most teens, but the age at which each stage is reached varies greatly from child to child. These different rates of maturation are connected to physical development and hormone balance, neither of which the child can control. For this reason, adolescents should be treated as individuals and any guidelines should be adapted to the particular child. The biological changes we associate with adolescence actually unfold over a long period of time, beginning with the maturation of the adrenal axis during childhood and ending with the maturation of the gonadal axis in the early 20s (Steinberg, 2011). Piagets Theory and Adolescent Maturity At 15 years of age a teenager is well prepared to understand the risks. According to Jean Piaget and his Theory of Cognitive Development a child between 7-11 years of age has the cognitive ability to consider problems with multiple dimensions and utilize abstract thinking (Morris & Maisto, 2008). If Piaget discovered this in the 1920s, it comes as no surprise that today’s professionals are proclaiming ten as the new sixteen, as far as, when children should be receiving education on sex...
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...University Abstract Sex and Marriage There are many excerpts from the Bible that speak on what sex is supposed to entail. Sex is God’s gift to men and women who come together in the commitment of marriage. * Hebrews 13:4, NIV. "Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure." * I Corinthians 7:3,4, NIV says, "The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband. The wife's body does not belong to her alone but also to her husband. In the same way, the husband's body does not belong to him alone but also to his wife." * I Corinthians 7:5, TLB. "So do not refuse these rights to each other. The only exception to this rule would be the agreement of both husband and wife to refrain from the rights of marriage for a limited time, so that they can give themselves more completely to prayer. Afterwards, they should come together again so that Satan won't be able to tempt them because of their lack of self-control." In the aforementioned passages it is implied that the union of marriage should be honored by all and not just the two that are married. It is also implied that once man and woman are married their body then becomes something that is shared so to deny one’s spouse of their marital duties on a consistent basis that is not agreed upon by both husband and wife leaves them susceptible to temptations outside of their marriage. Forbidden Sex When interpreting God’s will in relation to sex the most well-known...
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...of getting the data needs to be suitable to the research study profile to produce the correct results of the research process. Data Collection Methods The data collection methods used in the Effects of a Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program on Teens’ Attitudes toward Sexuality case study article were both observation and questioners. Both ways the data collection methods used were appropriate because it used six different prevention programs throughout the state of Virginia to gather information instead of collecting data from multiple states to make the results more difficult to determine. On the other hand, changes in a participant’s status on an 82-item survey instrument served as a basis when estimating the program effects in the original evaluation study(Weed, Ericksen, Grant, & Lewis, 2002). Reliability is an experiment, test or any measuring procedure that yields the same results on repeated trials. Validity is the construct measures says it is measuring(Carnmines & Zeller, 1983). The way the data collection methods were used to support the reliability and validity of the study article was it allowed the students to answer questioners anonymous that supported the main purpose of the study which was to examine the effects of interventions in a school-based teen pregnancy program. The steps taken to protect the rights of the subjects in the case study are not mentioned in the article. However, the subjects that were involved in the study were seventh graders that were...
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...State-Level Challenges (Author’s name) (Institution’s Name) Challenges of School Based Sex Education Statistics in the past indicate that sexual behavior amongst teens has become a national public health concern. This is because of increased unnecessary pregnancies and rise in cases of Sexually Transmitted Diseases. School based sex education represents a formalized effort to curb the negative sexual outcomes by providing necessary information. A comprehensive goal for schools is to give its students the best education to be more knowledgeable, responsible in society, socially skilled and active citizen. This mission is currently receiving support from various school based programs, but it is not fully operational. This is due to insufficient coordination with other operatives that provide human services. Implementation of a comprehensive school based sex education requires research-based and well-thought programs that improve the social and academic outcomes of students. Sex education is often seen to reduce adolescent pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections only. This should not be the trend, as students need to receive more information on their sexuality, examine their values and develop further skills on how to resist early sex and become responsible adults in future. There has been widespread fear among teachers concerning the content that is offered to students on sexuality. They argue that other stakeholders...
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...Code of Ethics Paper Write a 1,400- to 1,750-word paper in which you discuss ethics in a health care organization. Include the following: • What are the organization’s goals? How are they tied to its ethical principles? Describe the role and importance of the corporation’s ethical values. • What is the relationship between the organization’s culture and ethical decision-making? • Is it important that the organization’s ethical values support your ethical values? Explain. • Is there a social responsibility for the organization in the community? Explain and provide examples. · Include at least three sources in your paper. · Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines. CODE OF ETHICS PAPER A code of ethics is an integral part to all organizations and the degree that values are aligned with as well as the strategic planning methods for the thriving of Planned Parenthood of America where workflows equal the most efficient and clinically effective methods and tools. Political viewpoints and laws enforce personal employee's opinions and public pressure could interfere with operations at any point in time. Managerial preparedness through conceptualization of external ethical issues as well as internal issues that may arise from staff is necessary. Communication of protocols for situations and procedures should be performed to allow for front-line staff, patients, and the public to have a clear dynamic view...
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