Autumn Smith is a 5 year old who was born addicted to the drug known as Meth or Methamphetamines. She was adopted by Erin Smith as just an infant because the mother had been taken away due to the drug problem. Erin had not seen any types of problems with Autumn. She seemed to act like a normal child as she grew older, but by the time she was 5 Erin was noticing a lot of behavioral problems. Autumn was not playing well with other children and she was not playing at the same age level as the other children.…
Criticizers of abstinence-only curriculums think that abstinence-only programs are ineffective at reducing the initiation of adolescents participating in sexual activities. Rather than research showing that abstinence programs are not effective, there are simply few studies that have examined the impact of abstinence-only education on student sexual behavior (Denny & Young, 2006). The studies that are available show that abstinence-only curriculums are effective in increasing knowledge and decreasing sexual behavior. The following section will present studies that examine abstinence-only sexual education. Family Action Model for Empowerment (FAME), an abstinence-only program, was created for parents and teens to develop more open communication, be able…
Summary of Abstinence I tried to give up soda for six weeks for my abstinence project. For the first two weeks, I stayed strong and did not have any soda. Every time I would usually have a soda, I replaced it with water. At the beginning of my third week, I relapsed and drank soda.…
Comprehensive Sex Education should be the only sex education program taught in the public school system because; Comprehensive Sex Education is more informative, removing Abstinence-only programs from public schools will save money in government funding, and teaching Abstinence-only goes against the First Amendment. Comprehensive Sex Education is a…
Abstinence-based treatment for opioid addiction is a fancy way of saying that treatment should not involve the use of medications. To provide abstinence-based treatment, various therapeutic regimens are employed. Typically, the addict undergoes detoxification in an inpatient medical facility to rid the body of the opioids, typically over a 3 to 5-day period. After detoxification, the addict either enters into intensive one-to-one counseling on an outpatient basis (perhaps meeting with a therapist several times each week) or goes into a long-term treatment center (rehab) that advocates for abstinence-based treatment of opioid addiction. It is should not be a surprise that the treatment of opioid addiction is strongly turning away from abstinence-based…
The Harmful Inaccuracies of Abstinence-Only Education For many reasons, including both moral and financial, “Abstinence-Only-Until-Marriage” sexual education programs are taught all across America. These are programs that emphasize abstaining from sex until marriage, and generally tell students that this is the most effective way to avoid pregnancy and diseases. These programs often do not teach about other forms of contraception, with the belief that abstinence should be enough. Unfortunately, these programs are still taught despite the mounting evidence showing that not only are they ineffective, but actively harmful to the student’s health.…
In this paper, I will be arguing that abstinence only programs do not properly educate adolescents on sexual activity because they do not sufficiently impact teen sexual behavior, rates of HIV infection, or young people’s sexual health. One of the major problems with the abstinence-only program is that it hardly impacts teen sexual behavior. Advocates of the program argue that the adolescents educated using this method will sustain from sex for a longer period of time than adolescents educated using other methods of sexual education; although studies show differently. In writing about the possible change in sexual education teaching methods in the near future, Heather Boonstra says, “A systematic look at the federal abstinence-only effort concluded in 2007 that none of the programs it evaluated were effective in stopping or even delaying sex” (Boonstra).…
In turn, abstinence based sexual education does not teach about things such as contraception or safer practices. Not to mention that abstinence-only education has stopped being funded federally since 2009 after evidence that abstinence based sexual education is ineffective was accumulated (Stranger-Hall & Hall, 2011). For example, teens that reside in states that prescribe abstinence education are more likely to become pregnant. Abstinence education in the U. S does not actually cause abstinence abiding behavior (Stanger-Hall & Hall, 2011). Thus, showing that abstinence based sexual education is not only, not effective, but it could also be…
The helpfulness of sex education is to influence teens to wait until they are ready to have intercourse. Researchers believe that parents may not be the best source in conversation about abstinence because, every parent does not want their child experiencing such actions until they are married. It is stated that when a parent tells their teen to not become sexually active, more than likely they will be. This is where the educators come into play.…
A truth is that now a day’s most teens are no longer virgins. (Why)Though abstinence is the surest way to prevent teenage pregnancy the idea that all teenagers will abstain is unrealistic. There is no sure way to make sure that teen abstain, so we must inform them of all of the possible way to prevent both pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. That is why the best way to insure that the prevent pregnancy is to teach them everything about all matters of birth control, for both males and females. They should understand what/where to get all the different types of birth control.…
The website I decided to evaluate was www.candiesfoundation.org. The purpose of this website is to inform adolescents about abstinence and the consequences encountered if ever faced with teen pregnancy. The website consists of a variety of statistics and facts concerning the negative influences pregnancy bestows on teenagers. Holding a collection of stories shared by real teen moms who struggle to balance life after pregnancy at an early age.…
Should Sex Education be in Schools? A Review of the Literature Statistics show 34.3 percent out of 1000 female adolescents are pregnant, actually the lowest recorded in history (King, 2014).The previous statistics lead to approximately 850,000 adolescent pregnancies alone (McKeon, 2006), the highest rates of adolescent pregnancy recorded in the United States opposed to every other country. McKeon (2006) also states around 9.1 million adolescents have contracted an STI/STD under the age of twenty-five. In the society were young adults are expected to excel managing major degrees or higher in college contraception frowned upon by many.…
Abstinence-only classes are not as effective as comprehensive sex education classes because most students only hear the fact that condoms are not 100% effective. Therefore, they use condoms less often, which in turn can lead to diseases and pregnancy. Comprehensive sex education throughout public school can show students how to prevent HIV, other STDs, and pregnancy. Sexual activity among teens cannot be eliminated, but a difference can be made by implementing sex education as a required curriculum in public schools as early as elementary school. The sex education classes can take the place of parents who do not know how to communicate with their children or are not around enough to keep them on the right path.…
Due to parent’s having concerns that their child will become sexually active too early, they are putting their children at risk of not being prepared for dealing with how to properly handle what is expected to happen during their teenage and young adult years. Abstinence only sexual education is believed to be the best form of sexual education by many parents, but in reality it can cause a number of negative effects on teenager’s sexual knowledge and their abstinence. Abstinence only sexual education’s main focus is to inform teenagers that they should remain abstinent until they are married. Abstinence only sex education typically does not include any type of information on the reproductive system, contraception, preventing diseases and pregnancy, or how to have sex safely. Most abstinent only programs have also been proven to be “biased”, based on religious beliefs, include false information about the effectiveness of the use contraceptives, masturbation, and abortion.…
In 2007 there was a federally funded study of abstinence only education programs and the results “...showed that youth enrolled in the programs were no more likely than those not in the programs to delay sexual initiation, to have fewer sexual partners, or to abstain entirely from sex” (The Truth about...). Many other studies have had similar results. In a random survey ten candidates were asked “Do you think it needs to be mandatory to take a sex education class to graduate high school?” Seven out of the ten people who were asked this question believe that students need this class in order to graduate.…