Introduction: This paper highlights reproductive rights. What are Reproductive rights? Reproductive rights refer to the choices an individual have and that can have an impact on their body. There are many choices that an individual can be made in regards to reproductive rights such as Birth control, Abortions, and, Adoption. Reproductive rights are an important subject matter because in the late 1960’s African American women’s did not have the same privileges as their white counterparts (Marlene…
The United States and Canada have reported a connection amongst maternal women with low education levels and premature births (Iams & Donovan, 2011). These reports have also been concluded in the United Kingdom and Europe (Iams & Donovan, 2011). This has especially been reported of spontaneous premature delivers of less than thirty two weeks gestation (Iams & Donovan, 2011). Lack of maternal health education can lead to negative outcomes…
Discipline is an important part of raising a child and it is especially important when a child is in high school. High school is a time in a child’s life when they start to experiment with different things, like drugs and sex and they are still trying to figure out who they are. In the movie, “Lean on Me”, Principal Joe Clark disciplines the students and teachers by suspending them and keeping them to stay in school by putting locks on the door. Joe Clark wanted to help the kids out enough that…
go through all the criticism that comes with it. With all of these challenges you would think that all parents would support sexual education, but no some still live in a world where abstaining is the only way to prevent pregnancy. What is hard to understand is why the parents think that if you teach them that how to use birth control, it encourages teens to have sex. That is completely wrong to educate is not to encourage. Sure, abstaining is one way to prevent having a child, but there are so…
Explain- There are many consequences of unprotected sex, such as teen pregnancy and STD’s. There are many kinds of STD’s out there, but some of them are chlamydia, gonorrhea, human immunodeficiency virus, hepatitis, syphilis, and genital herpes. Teenagers make up a large portion of the nation’s cases of…
about femininity, masculinity, love, and lust explain how the sexual double standard is negotiated among teenagers. When it comes to the double standard, American girls receive more stigma than Dutch girls. If American teenagers make the choice to have sex outside of a meaningful relationship, they are referred to as a “slut.” Schalet explained that Dutch girls are highly unlikely to participate in name calling because they have a different support system. Health care providers have made it so…
75.4 pregnancies per 1,000 women aged 15–19 years. (“10 Facts about Sex Education”) People just do not know how to express their feelings toward this subject; they need someone to talk too. It is clear that the panic over teen sexuality is very much alive and kicking. (“10 facts about Sex Education”) It left to young people themselves to demand sex education that puts their health and well-being first. Sex Education programs and abstinence programs should be taught in school because many teens…
study examined the paternal influences on adolescent sexual risk behaviors. This study focused not only paternal influences but more specifically the importance of fathers influence on their adolescent children. When a child reaches adolescence, the period when child turns into an adult, they are at a higher risk of sexual behavior. The importance of this article is to focus on educating young adults of the sexual risk. Adolescence have a great risk of contracting sexual transmitted diseases and…
In United States, nearly half of all pregnancies each year (approximately 3 million) are unintended. More than half of all American women will have experienced an unintended pregnancy by age 45. 3 in 10 will have had an abortion. In 2013, there were 67 million women of reproductive age (13-44) in U.S, and more than half of them needed some form of contraceptive service or supplies. For the past two decades, women increasingly rely on publicly funded clinics especially the poor, uninsured,…
Teen pregnancies and contraceptive methods has always been a heavily debated topic, especially for sale to youth. Teens often struggle with telling parents about concerns with sex so having an easier approach would be beneficial in many ways. It should be available to teenagers because it is a safe and effective emergency way to decline unintentional teenage pregnancy. Birth control should be readily available to teenagers to provide easy access, lower teen pregnancy rates and set safety…