The Birth-Mark

communication skills and helps young people explore their own values, goals, and options.” Likewise, contraceptives are defined as “a device or drug serving to prevent pregnancy” and come in a variety of forms, including oral/hormonal contraceptives such as birth control, barrier contraceptives such as condoms, and intrauterine contraceptives such as hormonal IUDs (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development).…

Midwives have been helping women in pregnancy and birth for a very long time. The number of births, in which a midwife assists, has dwindled in the past years but is slowly growing. According to the Aamerican College of Nurse Midwives 7.9% of births in the United States were assisted by midwives. Midwifery is an intense but rewarding job that has multiple necessary qualifications since midwives must give prenatal care, assist at births, and give a small amount of postpartum care. Midwives…

1. Provide a brief summary of the assigned article and state at least two to three concepts you learned from the article. Our assigned article lays a foundation for either beginning or long-practicing Christian therapists on how best to conduct sex therapy with clients. Two main goals of the authors are to strip the taboo surrounding sexual practices and to have therapists’ conduct self-evaluations to explore their own personal feelings and beliefs surrounding sex. One of the two concepts…

implants, pills, shots, sponges, condoms, vasectomies, female sterilizations, and many more forms. “Birth control is a safe and easy way to prevent pregnancy. Contraception, in fact, isn’t just for means of birth control “Some types of birth control can also help treat certain health problems or provide other health benefits — like making periods lighter and less painful. Almost everybody uses birth control at some point in their life.” (Planned Parenthood). Planned Parenthood prevents “579,000…

The curriculum from Deceptions: Sex Trafficking Education and Awareness fits into the history and philosophy of prevention education. In the textbook, “Family Life Education: Principles and Practices for Effective Outreach” written by Duncan and Goddard (2001), they further discuss the history and philosophy of prevention education. Family life educators in general have a focus on preventative education. Primary prevention includes helping to build knowledge and skills that are needed before…

Sydney Seaver March 23, 2015 English 1302 Ms. Ryan Comprehensive sex education should be enforced in public schools. Annotated Bibliography Jones, R. (2011). Teens reflect on their sources of contraceptive information. Journal of Adolescent Research, 26(4), 423-446. Kids under the age of eighteen have many different ways of finding out about sex. Sources such as the internet, magazines, and parents have been some of the main sources of sex education in adolescents’ life. However,…

I have never looked up to, and never have I ever been around, anyone more in my life than my sister. From the moment I was born, we were attached at her hip whether she wanted me there or not - we played with toys, and games, together; I looked up to her; I respected her; she taught me next to everything that I knew about life back before I started school. Once I got a bit older, I reached the point of having the ability to genuinely discover who I was, and find my own identity. Around the same…

Imagine being in a world where teen girls could get their own birth control. Us females all know being in the doctor’s office with their mother or father and being asked that question “Are you sexually active” and scared to respond to question because you don’t know how your parent will take it. You want to be on birth control just for protection and to do the right thing but sometimes parents will say no because that might just give you the pass to go out and have sex. About 40 percent of…

Being the middle to youngest Skyleur sister isn’t the best thing with being left out a lot since I’m not the prettiest one like Angelica or as kind as Eliza or as fun as Peggy. My dad Phillip Skyleur doesn’t talk about me much I don’t really like being in the spotlight but he still acknowledges me. My sisters do also but I’m never really apart of their activities they are known as the trio since people forget about me sometimes. I have a lilac dress while my sisters have the pink, blue, and…

Andrei Romanovich Chikatilo was born in October 16, 1936, in the village of Yablochnoye, a part of Ukrainian state of the USSR during Stalin’s regime ( Serial Killers: Unmasked par 2). Ukraine being the “breadbasket” of the Soviet Union, Stalin’s agricultural collectivization polices brought famine and starvation in the village during Chikatilo childhood (McCarthy par 2). He was forced to eat grass and leaves to stay alive, and had not tasted bread till he was 12 (Goss, Gray & Villalvazo par…