Birth order

A growing number of young adults are routinely engaging in unprotected sexual activity, which frequently leads to serious health outcomes and safety concerns. To resolve this on-going issue of risky sexual behaviors, programs are beginning to be implemented in schools to provide adolescents with information on how to be safe, unsafe sex consequences, and how to reduce risks for STIs and unintended pregnancies. Problem Unprotected sex is defined as having vaginal, anal, or oral sex without…

Personally as a legal adult today, feel that my parents do not need to be involved in any of my personal choice at all. It is not up to them to ever tell me as to when or not to do anything. If I felt the need to obtain birth control I should never have to run it by my parents first. It would be my own decision to be on the pill for my own protection not theirs. I for one can say as a teenage I was never given the sex talk from my parents. It never came up not once, all I was told was that I…

In most Texas high schools it is not unusual to see a young girl walking around school pregnant. Many schools have taken the “shame” approach, where the girls take separate classes from their peers in order to learn how to be a fit parent. What sixteen year old is truly ready to raise a child, often times, by themselves? This is a problem that is easily avoided. The Texas education system seems to think that the method of strictly teaching abstinence is effective, however how can it possibly be…

the precautious to the women of not taking the birth control method correctly- drug compliance (Sunstein & Thaler 91). After a month, a years, or years depending on the contraceptive the client chose, she will have to get recalibrated to make sure the birth control is working and not causing negative impacts such as offbalances of…

century. The three most influential are Margaret Sanger, Alfred Charles Kinsey, and the Homophile Movement. Margaret Sanger made birth control accessible to the public, which altered the way in which people of the twentieth century understood sex. Margaret Sanger’s impact on contemporary society was tremendous. Sanger enabled women to control their fertility and made birth control accessible to the public. During this time basic information about sex, sexuality, and even anatomy was often…

foetal development, physiology of birth and postnatal adaptations. Furthermore, the observation I performed over midwifery role throughout my life as well as when I was expecting my son, during the labour and soon after he was born, gave me reassurance that this is the profession I would have loved to perform.…

pivotal public health achievements in today’s history. Did you know that between 1800 and 1900, family size declined from 7 to 3.5 children with the help of education and contraceptives? Previous to birth control movements, distributing information and counseling patients regarding any type of birth control was illegal under federal and state laws. During this time period, there was little wide spread knowledge about many medical conveniences including time of ovulation, fertility period as well…

woman has been with so many men but scientifically and medically speaking, that doesn’t even make sense. If everyone were taught correct, extensive sexual education, the knowledge gained would be the anatomy of genders, the knowledge of all forms of birth control and how to use them effectively, as well as that the right to say ‘no’ is always an option, that sex is natural and happens all the time, and…

pregnancy is a social issue and need to be addressed so it could be prevented. And that it is also the case that teen pregnancy is closely linked to a host of other critical social issue of poverty and income, overall child well-being, out-of-wedlock births, responsible fatherhood,…

well as the creation of a birth control pill, and the battle to legalize contraceptives. First, there were many dangers that women experienced during the time when forms of contraceptives…