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In any of your classes have you ever said, “When are we going to use this in real life?” Me too, I don’t understand why we have to learn some stuff we’ll actually never use. As you all know sex is very common in our early years now a days.“13% of U.S teens have had sex by the age of 15, most initiate sex in their late teen years. By their 19th birthday, seven in 10 teen men and teen women have had intercourse.”(Facts on American Teens). So it would make sense to be properly educated about it,…

been uninspected due the growing number of adolescents taking part in unprotected sex however the Australian Government of health believes this is due to the amount if indigenous women who took place in childbearing at young ages. Having a higher birth rates in their adolescent years with 22% indigenous mothers being under the age of 20, and as the indigenous population has slowly started to transition into the Australian cutler the rate of teen pregnancy with in the Indigenous community has…

Growing up in a Mexican household we have been taught to be pure. Our parents always told us that we should not get pregnant or give ourselves to any man that comes into our life. We as the latino community are left with questions but we were too ashamed or scared to ask them, which led to many pregnant teens and abusive relationships. B. V Olguin in the poem “Boys’ and Sandra Cisneros in her essay “Guadalupe the Sex Goddess” used their teen experiences to show us sexuality within their culture.…

For centuries the education field has experienced controversial topics and this has forced the question of which of these topics do teacher decided to educate on, and if it is appropriate for the classroom. Sex education has been amongst those topics where states have had to decide if sex education was needed and if it was deemed necessary for proper education. Sex Education had gone through a large transformation and it is more essential now more than ever with th rising teen pregancy rates and…

Biopolitics come from Foucault’s work, the idea that individuals are not “individuals, but rather groups whose biological processes such as birth and death can be controlled by a larger entity (Foucault, 2003). This can be applied in the sense that government regulations of reproductive health care access are controlling the biological processes of women. The second theoretical framework, Intersectionality…

These shows portray teenage parenthood realistically. “16 and Pregnant” is a reality television show on MTV that began airing in 2009. This show follows a girl, her family, and the baby’s father from the first few months of the pregnancy, through the birth, to the first months of the babies’ life. (Weiss) It’s easy to say that modern day shows like “16 and Pregnant” and “Teen Mom” promote, encourage, and glorify teenage pregnancy. This is a popular opinion because it gives teenagers their own tv…

the most debated topics in the United States for over several decades is whether sex education should be taught in public schools. Sex education is instruction on issues describing human sexuality, including sexual reproduction, safe intercourse, birth control, reproductive rights, and sexual abstinence. Some people believe that abstinence is the only way sex education should be taught, and that teaching safe sex encourages sexual relations in adolescents. However, there are several other people…

In "Seven Monster Theses", Jeffery Cohen develops an idea that “monsters” are essential to society. In fact, they construct what is “normal”, “rational”, and “civilized”. Specifically, “monsters” are foundational to how we view ourselves. “Monsters” contain all the traits deemed unacceptable and odd. It can be concluded that every outlier is a “monster”. In “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves”, Karen Russell tells the story of a pack of wolf girls who are transitioning into young ladies.…

chance at achieving her goals without unnecessary struggles. One of many decisions would be the administration of birth control as a means of avoiding unwanted pregnancies. There have been questions regarding the use of oral contraceptives and whether consumption leads to promiscuity amongst unwed adolescents and adults. Debate amongst…

The topic of sex in today’s society is something that the majority of our youth is uncomfortable to talk about. Sex is something that is completely normal but yet is not treated as so in our education system. Teachers are required to teach certain levels of math that comes with a curriculum, but on an everyday basis how frequently is this information being put to use? Not very often. Sexual education needs to be taught accurately, efficiently, and appropriately with a required curriculum in all…