When data are analyzed on risk behaviors it is clear that teens are number one in risky behaviors. According, to centers for disease and control and prevention, in the behaviors of risky sexual behavior, alcohol and drug abuse, and vandalism, and violent confrontations many teens engage in these behaviors. For example, “for sexual behaviors 47% of teens had sexual intercourse and 41% did not use a condom the last time they had sex”(CDC). Also, “only 22% of sexually experienced students have ever
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think are proper. This can be easily seen in society’s treatment of non-heterosexuals, especially in the cases of marriage laws, bullying by teens and young adults, and general homophobic attitudes in our culture. It is important that these situations be changed so that each and every person has the same rights and is not harshly and wrongly judged because of the sex of the person that they love. When thinking of the word “marriage,” what comes to mind? Is it long white dresses and dapper tuxedos, or
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Should teenagers face sex charges for nude photos on their cell phones? A question many parents should ask themselves over sixty teenagers in various states are being investigated for these actions. It has become popular with young teens to send picture text messaging and some of those messages are nude photos. My reason in choosing this article to be quit honest was the headline on the website. I think the teens shouldn’t nessicarely face charges in this matter, because
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topics should be taught in schools, and with people from every background imaginable attending our public schools today, it is difficult for a majority to agree on anything. Sex education is one of the most controversial topics concerning public education today. Many parents feel that school is not the place to educate children on sex because, just like religion, different people have different views on the subject. Distributing condoms to students is at the heart of this debate. Many people who take
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(2012). Teen Pregnancy Prevention Current Perspectives. Current Opinion in Pediatrics. 24(4):462-469 This is a scholarly peer reviewed journal article. This article address teen pregnancy rates in the United States and how differences exist between states and regions. It discusses programs that use a comprehensive approach . It discusses how age and culture of the population should be considered when choosing intervention tactics. Weiss, J. A. (2012). Who will listen? rural teen pregnancy reflections
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There is an ever increasing number of teen pregnancies among all ethnic groups. In Texas alone, unplanned teen pregnancy continues to be an issue among the age group of 15 to 19 years and is one of the contributing factors for high school dropouts. A study shows the average population of teenage pregnancies in Texas based on data collected from 1991 to 2003 of population growth, teen sexual activity, the failure of contraceptive use from lack of sex educational programs, and the projected growth
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English 101 9 Dec 2010 The End before the Beginning Is abortion murder? Should abortion be illegal? Abortion is something that is not overlooked, but not exactly given the proper attention it should have. Abortion causes a lot chaos today. Abortion is a process where the mother kills the fetus. Sometimes there are understandable reasons for these actions, but then some women feel they aren’t ready to be a mother. If abortion wasn’t an option then what would the women do? How could they get rid
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Informative speech: Teen Pregnancy At young ages we all seem to become nurtures, by playing with baby dolls, and playing house with our siblings. So it is easy for us to say that as children we thought we knew what we were doing when it came to taking care of our dolls when we “thought” they needed some assistance. This was just our imagination though. We pretended in the act of taking care of child that was just plastic. At that age do we really imagine what life would be like if we had
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BC 12-A Open-mindedness: American Teens and Young Adults vs. Filipino Teens and Young Adults Nowadays, teen adolescents and young adults have different perspectives when it comes to their own way of thinking and decision making. For example, there is a wide range of American-raised and Filipino-raised adolescents and young adults currently studying in Silliman University. These two ethnic groups act, think, and perceive things differently, because of their varied personal upbringings. The factors
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negative impact on adolescents. These videos have a large influence on how teens view themes such as sex, drugs, violence and even influence their behaviors like how they see themselves and how they think they should fit in by establishing gender stereotypes. These themes are very dangerous as most of today’s youth get their information from the media. While some music videos are seen as an art form, they force much of today’s teens to hold very unrealistic views of life by skewing what their priorities
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