Another aspect Mahbubur Rahman and Abbey Berenson were looking at in their study was the how many sexual partners these young girls had in the year prior to the study. This showed that about 62% were having 3 or more sexual partners the year prior to the study, along with that they were not just having normal intercourse they were practicing unprotected oral and anal sex. It is not healthy for these young adolescents to be having sexual relations with people and not use protection because they risk getting an STI or STD and or getting pregnant, about 157 of the young females had at least one STI diagnosed during the year prior to the study and 163 of them was pregnant in the year prior to the study. (Rhaman 3). This is yet another reason why
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Not all the female and male adolescents have been using the most effective birth control contraceptives, which is not something that should be happening because there is still a chance of being pregnant and getting an infection or disease. The most effective type of birth control are intrauterine devices which is a device that is places in the uterus to prevent pregnancy. In an article by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention what is being explained is that few teenagers are using the most effective type of birth control, and even though the number of teen births declined there were still about 273,000 children being born to teen mothers ages 15-19 (CDC para1). This is because young female adolescents do not have knowledge available and or ways of getting birth control, which is why it should be available for them there are still many births to teen mothers and there is a way to stop …show more content…
The teenage years start in middle school, and that is where the talk on pregnancy prevention and formal sexual health education should start. Only 38% of schools in the middle school level were teaching pregnancy prevention and 26% taught the students about birth control contraceptives, then only 10% showed the students how to correctly put on a condom. In the article by Guttmatcher Institute the schools that were talking about this subject were only allowed to talk about 2.7 hours on these topics over the year, this is why the students were not getting all the information they needed on the topics, because the schools were not allowed to talk about it too much, all they were doing was introducing the subject and leaving the students confused as to what to do with that knowledge. Young female and male adolescents should have the privilege of learning about birth control contraceptives, condoms, and the consequences that can come if they don 't use
Not all the female and male adolescents have been using the most effective birth control contraceptives, which is not something that should be happening because there is still a chance of being pregnant and getting an infection or disease. The most effective type of birth control are intrauterine devices which is a device that is places in the uterus to prevent pregnancy. In an article by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention what is being explained is that few teenagers are using the most effective type of birth control, and even though the number of teen births declined there were still about 273,000 children being born to teen mothers ages 15-19 (CDC para1). This is because young female adolescents do not have knowledge available and or ways of getting birth control, which is why it should be available for them there are still many births to teen mothers and there is a way to stop …show more content…
The teenage years start in middle school, and that is where the talk on pregnancy prevention and formal sexual health education should start. Only 38% of schools in the middle school level were teaching pregnancy prevention and 26% taught the students about birth control contraceptives, then only 10% showed the students how to correctly put on a condom. In the article by Guttmatcher Institute the schools that were talking about this subject were only allowed to talk about 2.7 hours on these topics over the year, this is why the students were not getting all the information they needed on the topics, because the schools were not allowed to talk about it too much, all they were doing was introducing the subject and leaving the students confused as to what to do with that knowledge. Young female and male adolescents should have the privilege of learning about birth control contraceptives, condoms, and the consequences that can come if they don 't use