PRE-MARITAL SEX: MUNDANE AFFAIRS Who the hell in the world doesn’t like sex? Who doesn’t want it or need it? I mean, sex is the most beautiful art God has ever created. It is the sweetest, very satisfactorily act that will make you feel pleasure from the very beginning until the very end. It is the strongest and passionate way of expressing love and the experts says “it is the healthiest form of exercise”. But some are abusing this wonderful gift and crossed the line. Sex is sacred. It requires
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2008). Epidemiology has reformed public health and continues to strive for disease prevention and health promotion in communities across the world. The population and disease that will be discussed in relation to epidemiology in this paper with be teens and pregnancy. This paper will explore the role of epidemiology in HPV and teenagers and the contributing factors. This paper will also discuss the definition and purpose of epidemiology, epidemiological methods, the epidemiological triangle, and levels
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hand, readers can better determine the direct causes of teen pregnancy through specific customs of inner city teens such as their demographics, sociocultural, cognitive maturity, psychological maturity, and physiology maturity. The analysis of this case study tested by (Talashek, Marie; Alba, Melinda L; Patel, Angria, 2006) gives you specific results of developmental maturity in African Americans, Mexicans, and Puerto Ricans in the topic of teen pregnancy. The results pertaining to each race were widely
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Teen pregnancy has become an issue to teen society today. Teen pregnancy has been rising throughout the years, it hit an all time high in the nineties. In nineteen ninety-one one third of young women in the United States were pregnant as teenagers, eighty percent of these pregnancies were unintentional. The decline in teen pregnancy is said to be because of more effective birth control. (Womanshealthchannel.com teen pregnancy overview, consequences of teenage pregnancy) Teenage mothers have a
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provided some reasoning as to why a teen may become delinquent. In efforts to combat delinquency many communities have implemented alternative education programs and extracurricular activity programs. Alternative programs help teens find the right path to a decent life. Programs such as The YMCA have lowered and prevented delinquency within communities, because they provide positive reinforcement. Juvenile Delinquency Reduction Programs Virginia offers teens alternative education programs. These
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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
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Teen Pregnancy Did you know that 3 out of 10 teenage girls will become pregnant before the age of twenty? According to the CDC the teen pregnancy rate has been decreasing since 2008 and is at an all-time low. However, reading the statistic that three out of ten girls will become pregnant before the age of twenty caused me to ask questions. Why is this still so high? With all of the knowledge out there how are so many teens becoming parents at such a young age? Working in the medical field for a
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Risky Adolescent Sexual Behavior: The Lack of Parental Supervision and Family Structure At the brink of the twenty-first century, some of the most controversial social issues come from the lack of parental supervision and family structure in the home; some of these issues include teenage pregnancy, statutory rape and the possibility of engaging in sexual activities that result in catching one or more sexually transmitted diseases. One might have a belief that engaging in sexual activity at a young
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and other violent crimes” (ProCon.org). Compared to teen who do not drink , teens who drink are more likely to get into a car with a driver who is intoxicated, smoking, on drugs, in possession of drugs or in possession of a weapon. Teens are also in danger of unprotected sex which as well as rape. “Current teen drinkers are twice as likely to have sex as nondrinkers. Adolescents who drink are also more likely to engage in risky sex, like having sex with someone they don't know or failing to use birth
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Is it worth waiting? Sex has completely filled our world. It is becoming harder and harder to remain true to one’s beliefs and values. Specially, concerning teenagers, it seems that everywhere we turn there is temptation and more reasons to succumb to desire. The pressure is high, but it is then that we must remain true to our convictions. Traditional and conservative wisdom states that a couple should wait to have sex until the nuptial vows have been uttered. Many teenagers believe that religion
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