Single-sex education

That it cannot guarantee complete protection, and only encourages sex in young teenagers. This is not the case, as studies have continuously proven that birth control is effective.One such study was done by the Office of Adolescent Health, reporting, “The teen pregnancy rate declined by 51 percent- from 116.9 to 57.4…

Giraffes, Giraffa camelopardalis, are wonderful and tall animals. They live south of the sahara desert, in the savanna. They have distinctive spots, like our fingerprints, that allows other giraffes to recognize them. Giraffes need 8-50 square miles to roam in the grassy region. Male and female giraffes are different in many ways. For example, female giraffes have hair on their ossicones, or horns. Males do not have hair on their horns because they swing their horns at other giraffes during…

they gave her options on what could be done to help her. She ends up making the difficult decision and gets an abortion, a service that Planned Parenthood helped her pay for. This young woman was able to finish high school and go on to further her education to become a nurse assistant. She ended up working at Planned Parenthood to help young girls much like she was when she was…

Female protagonists, such as the new Star Wars heroine Rey, are not getting the deserved recognition, especially when it comes down to the merchandise business. Most Millennials and the Generation Z, have already accepted the actuality that Star Wars has always been a categorized as a boy movie. From droid armies to severed limbs thanks to plasma blades powered by kyber crystals, how could females appreciate such a film? Certainly, there are some female characters like Princess Leia and Padme…

in our society. Many young women are being robbed of their chance to continuing their education since their responsibility is to take care of their young newborn. One idea to solve this problem of teenage pregnancy is instituting Planned Parenthood in schools to provide teens with contraception. While this may decrease the number of teenage pregnancies, it may also influence students to engage in premarital sex since the means to do that safely is now available at no cost. Although it is…

As romantic love has become so prominent in American culture as a result of the media’s representation of what love should be or what the perfect relationship is has resulted in expectations and disappointment for much of the population. These expectations or desires are not only experienced by adults but these narratives and images are now also shown to and influencing the younger generations of today. In their article “Imagining Romance: Young People’s Cultural Models of Romance and Love”,…

A waging war between LGBTQ+ advocates and a group of worried general public battle between the passing of the Bathroom Bill. LGBTQ+ advocates see this as an act of discrimination and inequality, as well as a hateful crime towards their identity and comfort, while worried public see it as a gateway for predators to easily prey off the defenseless. Each side holds valued points as to if the Bathroom Bill is preventing of danger towards the weak or an act of discrimination. In general,…

is and understatement of how big of an issue teenage pregnancy is in society. Teenagers are uneducated and disregard the consequences of unprotected sex. This leads to the Number of teenage girls getting pregnant between the ages of 15-18. Respect, educated and necessities provided are all ways to encourage and help teenagers be active in safe sex. Respect is a seven letter word that needs to be established in all aspects of everyone's life. Young women need to respect themselves and…

years old, I told her one detail per day about Sex so that she is not in complete shock in one day. There are so many details involving Sex. I told her before she took Health class because the Health Teacher will tell her/his students about Birth Control and tell them it is okay. We are Catholics and I wanted to pre-warn her about the consequences of using Birth Control and that using something like that is considered a Sin. I also told her that Sex before marriage is wrong. The Health teacher…

“Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality” (1984) has been useful for analyzing contemporary sexual concerns, as well as the potential subsequent moral and sex panics that follow. One such concern revolves around sexual education in public school systems. Since receiving federal backing in 1940, sexual education has been contested throughout the United States; in fact, over 70 years later, the country still lacks a consensus on what the school’s role in sex education…