Essays Tagged: "Abstinence-only sex education"
Condom Distribution in Schools Condones Promiscuity and Increase Pregnancy Rates
d, students arerisking teen pregnancy.Surprisingly, many schools throughout the United States adopt abstinence-only programs.The enthusiasm for these programs is well evident. Although the message of ... nce preventspregnancy. For example, the San Marcos Junior High in San Marcos, California, adopted anabstinence-only program developed by Teen-Aid. The curriculum dropped the school'spregnancy rate fro ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sex & Sexuality
Sexual Education: the Ignorant Teach Abstinence
cts' (NCAE1). This isn't an exaggeration; this is actually a summary of the required curriculum for abstinence-only sexual education.Abstinence-Only sexual education teaches not only that sex is harmf ... ly condoms are basically ineffective, and sends off strong pro-life messages. The basic point of an Abstinence-Only sexual education is to frighten students away from thoughts of sexual intercourse. T ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education
Children Having Children: Why is it a problem, and what policy changes can help prevent it?
ups such as the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy are disproving the effectiveness of the abstinence-only education method, and encouraging more instruction that is comprehensive. A study in ... e instruction that is comprehensive. A study in Family Relations considered the efficacy of several abstinence-only education programs, and concluded, "there is little compelling evidence that purely ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sex & Sexuality
S.E.X
legislation in Welfare Reform Act allocating 50 million over 5 years to states that agree to teach abstinence-only education programs in nations public schools. School that accept the funds must inst ... f wedlock pregnancy, STDs and other associated health problems. To ensure that students receive the abstinence-only message, the legislation prohibits schools from using the grant money to teach stude ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sex & Sexuality
SEx Education in Todays schools
congress showed its support by putting aside fifty million dollars for schools that agreed to teach abstinence-only sex-ed. Of, course, teaching teens to say no to sex is an incredibly valuable messag ... not getting through. In spring 2002, the Bush administration states that there is still no evidence abstinence-only sex ed. Works. In the ideal world, teenagers would practice abstinence. But, accordi ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays
Teen Sexual Rights
eir parents. While abstinence is an important message, I think teens must be given not only sex and abstinence-only educations by their teachers and parents but also all their abortion rights in order ... love, to be treated as people, and to receive not only the traditional sex education, but also the abstinence-only education from school. Traditional sex education programs describe various methods o ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Persuasive Writing
Sex Education in Public Schools in America
ed daily to these explicit thoughts and images. Yet one third of school districts in the U.S. teach abstinence-only-until-marriage which not only tell kids that they should just wait, but the program ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education
Abstinence
Our society has come a long way, going from supervised dates, to teen sex reaching an outstanding high. Television and government are mostly at fault. Instead of spending ... ills, and abortion are being sold. The difference between then and now is, before people knew about sex, but it was not accepted; now, celebrities support sex, and the younger crowd who see them as a ... actually realized that most every commercial that does not advertise food, advertises some form of sexual tactic? Television is a huge contribution to this sexual trend; approximately two-thirds of t ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community
Abstinence Plus-Education
Thesis Statement:Abstinence-only sex education tells teenagers not to have sex at all; however, there is more to sex ... t teenagers need to know about besides "no sex" as the only alternative.Working Outline:I. Teaching abstinence-only to teenagers is unrealistic.a.Telling teens to not have sex at all actually encourag ... havior by teenagers.c. This program stresses to teens that this is the only acceptable behavior.II. Abstinence-only education does not stop teens from having sex.a. Teenagers from ages fifteen to nine ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sex & Sexuality
Sex Education: Abstinence Or Knowledge
Human beings as a species are sexual in nature. Reproduction is the basis of natural selection and evolution, so in order to incre ... present day society and have caused many problems. Teenagers have the highest rates of contracting sexually transmitted diseases and over forty percent of teenage girls have unplanned pregnancies (Mi ... to chastity belts, and even death. The most common form of intervention today is knowledge. Sex education is a non-violent intervention that at present is being widely used to control adolesce ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Sex education in the America
ching teens how to make responsible decisions about sex. Only 15 percent of Americans say they want abstinence-only sex education in the schools, 30 percent of the principals of public middle schools ... le decisions about sex was more important than abstinence. Middle schools were more likely to teach abstinence-only than high schools while High schools thought that to teach abstinence is not the mos ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education
Untitled
General Purpose: To convince Specific Purpose: To convince my audience that Sexuality Education must be taught in our schools.Birds, Bees and ABC's: the need for Sexuality Educ ... and prevention of pregnancy and STD's.Motivate: I'm going to show you some statistics about teenage sexuality that will shock and compel you.Assert: Clearly there is a need for comprehensive Sexuality ... n our schools to best inform and prepare our children to make responsible decisions about their own sexual activity.Preview: First I'll show you some pregnancy and disease figures and then, as if that ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sex & Sexuality
Sex in Society Krystal Chesbro October 25, 2002 Sex in
Teen Pregnancy, Sexual Values. 101.?Dickinson, Amy?, Teenage Sex, Time. 160.?Roleff, Tamara?, Yes: Abstinence-Only Sex Education, Sex. 83.3. Peers and Family Survey, question 3.4. Music ?Eminem?, Sta ... ation programs have also been getting good reviews and bad. ?Since federal funds started flowing to abstinence-only programs in 1997, the number of teenage pregnancies, abortions, and births have fall ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues
Should Sex Education be Taught in High School?
e further from the truth. For example, studies have shown that sex education is more effective than abstinence-only education; sex education tends to delay sexual intercourse and sex education increas ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education
Abstinence-Only and Comprehensive Sex Education and the Initiation of Sexual Activity and Teen Pregnancy. Society for Adolescent Medicine.
w when engaging in something that can be life altering.The main research asked in the article “Abstinence-Only and Comprehensive Sex Education and the Initiation of Sexual Activity and Teen Pregn ... ve me a better idea of what was implied.Citation:Kohler, P.K., Lafferty, W.E., Manhart, L.E. (2007) Abstinence-Only and Comprehensive Sex Education and the Initiation of Sexual Activity and Teen Pregn ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays
"Don't Abstain From the Truth"
keeping our children from getting STDs or having babies. I would argue that instead of giving up on Abstinence-Only education all together, we take the general concept and apply it to our safe sex edu ... o have sex as those who did not take part in them" (Fox). What are some of the differences between Abstinence-Only Education and the education that is taught in schools now? The primary goal is "to h ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues
sex education
osing Viewpoints Resource Center. Gale. Houston Community College. 8 Oct. 2012Heather D. Boonstra. "Abstinence-Only Sex Education Programs Are Ineffective." Opposing Viewpoints: Teenage Sexuality. Ed. ... ints Resource Center. Gale. Houston Community College. 8 Oct. 2012Union, American Civil Liberties. "Abstinence-Only Programs Do Not Work." Teenage Sexuality. Ed. Tamara L. Roleff. Opposing Viewpoints& ...
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