Beth Worthey 6/14/2011 ENG-106 English Composition II Stopping Teen Pregnancy Every single day, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services, there are 8 fifteen year olds, 24 sixteen year olds and 32 seventeen years olds who give birth. These children are 18% more likely to delay receiving prenatal care and 16% have preterm labor, while 10% of the babies are in the low birth weight category (Teen Birth Fact Sheets, 2011 pg 1-2). Each school district has a health curriculum
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Comprehensive Sex Education Teenage pregnancy rates are higher in American than they are in most other industrialized countries. This is a direct cause of the prominence of abstinence-only-before-marriage (commonly known as abstinence-only) education in United States schools. Besides teen pregnancy, abstinence-only education does more harm to America’s youth. There is a debate being discussed about how sexual education should be taught in schools. Even though abstinence-only education in schools
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Have you had sex? | The majority of respondents said that they had not had sex (529 responses) while the remainder said yes (314 responses). | Had sex? | | | How old were you when you first had sex? | Most respondents said they first had sex between the ages of 11-15 years old (230 responses), with the 16-20 year old age group coming in second with 84 responses. | Age when first had sex | | | Were you comfortable with the decision to have sex? | There is a difference
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Planned Parenthood is a vital leader in in teaching about sexual education, providing health services, and providing information available to others around the world. Planned Parenthood is a nonprofit organization that provides affordable health care, sex education, and information available to others around the world. What makes Planned Parenthood a vital leader in today’s society is that they provide affordable health care, reproductive care, and they provide information and resources that is need
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The Effects of Teenage Relationships Different relationships affect teenagers in various ways. Friends impact teenagers almost the same amount as their parents. Teenagers go to their friends for help or to ask questions that they could not ask their parents about. Most of the time their friends give them good advice but then there is the down side when they put pressure on their friends to do something like to smoke, drink, and do drugs. In most cases they tell their friends how to dress and act
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Sex Trafficking and Slavery in the United States "She tied up my hands first, and then she put the tape over my mouth. And she put tape over my eyes," Debbie said. "While she was putting tape on me, Matthew told me if I screamed or acted stupid, he'd shoot me. So I just stayed quiet”...” Debbie said her captors drove her around the streets of Phoenix for hours. Exhausted and confused, she was finally taken to an apartment 25 miles from her home. She said one of her captors put a gun to her head”…”
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reproduction. This can be a ‘scary’ or confusing time for adolescents as their body goes through a massive change. Further, a child who has been abused, especially sexually, has a different experience with these changes; sexually abused children and teens act and react in extremes, rather than moderation. Puberty is a time of sexual-awakening for a child; a child who has been sexually abused will neglect the idea of puberty based on his or her negative associations with sexual behavior. Children who
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Draft Tena Stapleton Kaplan Universty 2 To: Human Service Workers CC: From: Tena Stapleton Good Morning, As most of you know teen pregnancy is one of the most alarming issues in our country today. Teen pregnancy has been an issue for decades. Even though the numbers have changed it still remains an issue. Figuring out why the number of teens giving birth is so high and ways to prevent is very important. It is important that we know the risk factors and that we educate our youth about
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Should parents provide their teens with birth control? Pros Helps decrease the amount of teen pregnancies each year in the United States. Access to birth control can help decrease the abortion rate in the United States. Allowing birth control displays a level of responsibility for your teen (Demand Media, Inc., 1999-2012). Cuts the risk of ovarian and uterine cancer by half (Demand Media, Inc
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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
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