...In Texas, nearly all schools teach abstinence-only sexual education--which teaches kids that their only option is to avoid having sex at all costs (Pollock). Furthermore, about a quarter of schools are not required to teach any sexual education (Pollock). Abstinence-only sex ed has proven to be ineffective at decreasing pregnancy rates, and this is clearly demonstrated in Texas (Gelfond). On the other hand, Anderson County in South Carolina worked with a teen-pregnancy-protection organization to create comprehensive curriculum. Comprehensive sexual education covers all aspects of healthy relationships and safe sex, while clearly covering the pros of abstinence (Sullivan). In fact, the program in South Carolina can be referred to as “abstinence plus” and “encourages young people not to have sex” (Sullivan). These comprehensive systems have been having tangible, positive changes. By using this program, the birth rate in girls aged 10 to 19 in Anderson County, South Carolina went...
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...Teenage Pregnancy Indiana vs. Kentucky Michell Davis Ivy Tech Community College April 2016 Abstract Teenage pregnancy, was once considered an epidemic in this country. What is it considered today? This research will not only focus on a whole within the United States, but it will attempt to compare and contrast why two neighboring states; Indiana and Kentucky differ so much when it comes to teenage pregnancy. What are some of the causative factors for the difference in numbers between these two states? Positive and negative effects of teenage pregnancy, along with why teenage pregnancy rates have continued to decrease since 1992, not only in the United States as a whole, but in Indiana and Kentucky as well. To conclude this research, I will discuss the practices or techniques that are being used to curb and prevent this epidemic problem. Today is April 19th, 2016 and the time is 6:00 p.m., in a suburb outside of Indianapolis, IN. Did you know that before mid-night, “23 Hoosier teenagers will become pregnant?’ This is a statistic that was released by Plan parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky in 2015 (Lieber, 2015). How can this be happening? What must we as parents, friends, educators and professional staff of this society do to educate our teens on becoming moms and dads, so early in their lives? Are these children unaware of the social impact that teenage pregnancy will have on their lives, their families, let alone the innocent child that they will soon...
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...WORLD USA COMMENTARY BUSINESS ENERGY/ENVIRONMENT INNOVATION SCIENCE CULTURE BOOKS Search Go Family / Modern Parenthood All Family Sign up for FREE ENewsletters: Weekend Edition Subscribe and save 57% Teenage pregnancy: High US rates due to poverty, not promiscuity Teenage pregnancy rates in the US have declined dramatically – 40 percent in two decades – but remain among the highest in the developed world. A new study suggests American teens don't have more sex than teens elsewhere, but that they suffer more "despair" due to poverty. By Stephanie Hanes, Correspondent / May 22, 2012 Weekly review of global news and ideas Balanced, insightful and trustworthy Subscribe in print or digital SPECIAL OFFER Print Digital Teenage pregnancy was the focus of a 2010 Candies Foundation campaign featuring Bristol Palin to educate teens about the consequences of pregnancy. A new study links "despair" and poverty to the relatively high US teenage pregnancy rates. PRNewsFoto/The Candie's Foundation Enlarge About these ads 268 Recommend Tweet 10 0 and 0 Green Cabinets and Countertops Why is a teenage girl in Mississippi four times as likely to give birth than a teenage girl in New Hampshire? (And 15 times more likely to give birth than a teen in Switzerland?) Or why is the teen birth rate in Massachusetts 19.6 per 1,000, while it’s 47.7 per 1,000 in Washington, D.C.? Stephanie Hanes Correspondent Stephanie Hanes is the lead writer...
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...help but wonder; if this is truly helping prevent teen pregnancy. Over the last decade, teen pregnancy has increased in the United States, and has affected society socially, educational and economically. What programs have been put in place to decrease these statistics? How is this effecting the United States overall? In this paper I will discuss how it not only affects society, but also the teen parent, child, and society. Every year in the United States more than one million teens become pregnant in the United States. Of these one million pregnancies more than 500,000 babies are born to teen parents. This means that everyday at least 3,000 teens become pregnant. Nevada is ranked number one for pregnancies among ages 15-19. The rates of live births in Nevada for women ages 15-19, ranks Nevada at number 8 (Guttmacher Institute, U.S. Teenage Pregnancy Statistics National and State Trends and Trends by Race and Ethnicity, September 2006). With these shocking statistics you cannot help but wonder, what are we as a society doing to help prevent this major issue? Schools have placed sex education classes as an elective class that students are allowed to take to inform themselves on prevention and safe sex. Teenage pregnancy is a pregnancy of a female that is under the age of 20 when the pregnancy ends. Generally a teen pregnancy is unplanned, nor is the mother married. Various studies have shown that teen pregnancy is connected to many issues such as; lack of sex education...
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...tries to fight to have sex education put into public schools of Lubbock, Texas by joining a youth commission. By joining the youth commission and trying to campaign the right to get sex education, there were a few bumps in the road, like having the campaign also fight for gay rights. But nothing stopped her and she kept fighting. The central theme of this film is the lack of sex education, and not having it in public schools. This theme is important because Shelby thinks it would be a good idea to add it so more people to have a better understanding of what sex really is. Throughout the film, the lack of sex education can be analyzed by what social issues it causes and why the issues are important, how sex education challenges the notion of child innocence, the sociological concepts that are helpful in understanding the film’s message and what king of social impact the film seeks to achieve and examine what questions for further discussions it rises. By analyzing this, it will give us an indication on why sex education should be put into the schools of Lubbock. In the film, according to Shelby, “one in fourteen teenage girls getting pregnant” (The Education of Shelby Knox), in Lubbock, Texas, which leads to the key social issues that are portrayed in the film. The issues consist of Lubbock, having the highest teen pregnancy rates, and the highest STD rates. These issues are important because teen pregnancies and STD’s can lead to a sexual health crisis. Another reason why these...
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...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 enrolled...
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...The Prevention of Sexually Transmitted Disease It’s no secret that sex is often associated with college social life and is exploited daily in various ways in the world around us. Despite this, one of the most serious situations that most students try to ignore and brush off is the risk of obtaining and spreading Sexually Transmitted Diseases and/or Sexually Transmitted Infections (STDs & STIs). Preventing the spread of STDs in college can be accomplished as early as high school in a multitude of ways. This could be accomplished by offering better sex education, working to remove the taboo placed on sex-related subjects by society, and teaching how alcohol is often associated with the contraction and spread of STDs. One of the biggest issues...
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...With or Without Abortion There are a few topics that are quite controversial in this decade. Whether abortion should be legal or not is one of them. There have been plenty of arguments involving this controversy. As for the legal aspect, there have been some court cases concerning abortion. One could have many reasons as to why abortion should be legal: a women’s freedom of her body, rape instances, and birth control failures are some of them. Pregnancies do occur even when women are taking precautions to ensure there are no mistakes. Using a birth control method is normal for a majority of women. There are IUD’s, pills, condoms, spermicides, diaphragm, cervical caps, and withdrawal. “The fact is that an overwhelming 53% of unplanned pregnancies occur in women who are using contraceptives” (Cornforth, 2009). Using IUD’s can have a two to four percent failure rate. If the IUD moves out of its place it will not function correctly. A woman should regularly check the string to confirm the IUD’s placement in the cervix. If using a diaphragm or cervical cap, the possibility of contraception is still at thirteen percent. It is quite easy for these to shift in their placement and therefore, producing less protection. The withdrawal method is used frequently, more in young adults. This reason is due to fact, of them either having a lack in education or they believe the false rumors they hear from their peers that pre-ejaculatory semen cannot impregnate them. Withdrawal can also fail...
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...The state of America’s sex education is monumentally sad, even more so in Texas. Children are taught to be afraid of their bodies and to resent any physical attractions, which can lead to psychological problems later in life. Being taught abstinence and to wait for marriage can be damaging in several ways; it can produce a lack of comfort with one’s own body, it can build a general distaste for relationships, and it can create trust issues Being taught abstinence impresses upon a person that sex is wrong or immoral when it is a natural process that has a multitude of health benefits. People may become uncomfortable in their own skin because of the oppressive methods of abstinence teaching. Many lessons in abstinence say that you should “respect...
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...If you never teach a teen to properly, use a condom, or the ways STD’s are spread, then that teen probably has a higher chance of having an unwanted pregnancy or catching an STD. In addition, the way these programs promote their message can potentially be harmful as well. Many of these programs use fear and shame to promote chastity (Watkins). They make people who have had premarital sex out to be worthless (Smart). In the case of Elizabeth Smart, she had an encounter where a teacher compared women who have had sex before marriage to chewed-up piece of gum (“Abstinence...
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...PARENTAL CONSENT LAWS AND ABORTION RATES AMONG MINORS PARENTAL CONSENT LAWS AND ABORTION RATES AMONG MINORS 13 Do Parental Consent Laws Reduce Abortion Rates among Minors? Dedra Burnett Louisiana Tech University HIM-541 Dr. Kennedy ? Background One of the biggest controversies in the country is parental consent regarding an abortion with a minor. Parental involvement and government laws are extremely important for the safety, welfare, and health of minors. Many minor girls become pregnant at an early age and think about having an abortion; the minor is making the choice on whether or not to go through with a pregnancy. Many states have parental consent or parental notification requirements before a minor can receive an abortion....
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...Pro-Abortion There are many women in the world that decide to have abortions for their own personal reasons or reasons that may affect the unborn child’s life. We live in a society of unwanted pregnancies and where people are either Pro-life (against abortion) or Pro-choice (for abortion). I consider myself Pro-choice and believe that abortion should not be controlled by the government. Pro-choice groups believe that woman should be free to follow their own ethical beliefs concerning the termination or the continuation of a pregnancy (Wikipedia). Many recognize that their different beliefs about abortion access and that the state should not attempt to enforce a common belief system on all pregnant women who decide to terminate their pregnancies. The legalization of Abortion started in 1973 with the Roe vs. Wade case. This made abortion legal in all 50 states. Abortion is safe because we know the risks involved in an abortion are very low relative to other surgical procedures, and the risk of death from an abortion is one-tenth that of childbirth (Abortion Access). There are many different reasons that people fight for and against Abortions. You have those whom think that terminating a pregnancy is murder and the parent and doctor are committing the crimes. The situations where woman should have the right to abortion are where they have been raped, their health or life is at risk, contraception was used but failed, the...
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...The rightful owner to an Abortion The Right to an Abortion Abortion is a subject that sparks great debate there is no grey area, you are either for or against abortion. In the era that we live in today, moral standards are ever changing and decisions placed under a microscope. Abortions are becoming justified, acceptable and should be the choice of the woman holding the fetus. The reason for this choice is government makes the mistake of being involved in the choice of its individual people. As you turn on your television set and see matters of abortion being discusses, it is hard to rule out the religion, and science. These subjects will always cause friction when educating people about human life. Abortion is more than a procedure, it has psychological factors, and it has short-term and long-term effects. There are financial matters as well and those who bears the overall long-term effect, society or the individual needs to be addressed as well when speaking about abortions. The Supreme Court of the United States has been involved in highly publicized cases of abortion; Rowe v Wade, Gonzales v. Carnhart, Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood of New England, are to name a few. The Supreme Court is the highest form of court system in the United States to decide these matters. The state should allow the people having the abortions to establish their own guidelines so they can govern these laws and regulations. Sexual Education in the school systems is flawed, teachers...
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...Abortion has been a topic of great controversy for nearly forty one years now. In 1971 a single, pregnant female sued the state of Texas because the law stated that an abortion could not be performed unless it was medically necessary to save the mother’s life. Her doctor was also a plaintiff in the case because he was facing two counts of murder for performing an abortion on a mother that was not medically necessary. A couple who could not have children and believed taking an unborn child’s life was unethical and wrong counter sued with the defense attorney by the name of Wade. This brought about a court decision almost two years later upholding legalized abortion and stating the laws in Texas were vague and unjustifiable. Stating that it was a woman’s right to choose abortion. Allowing women the option to have an abortion up until twenty four weeks gestation. Leading the way for other states to change their laws governing abortions. This brought about a whole new issue as to whether abortion should be legal or not. Prior to Roe vs. Wade an abortion could not be performed unless the mother’s health was at great risk. After the case, many states reevaluated their laws so that mothers could have an abortion for various reasons including “just because they weren’t ready to settle down.” This decision divided the American people as to whether it was ethically and morally right for a woman to choose abortion. In 2013, there were over one million abortions performed in the United...
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