Most teen mothers are less likely to graduate from high school and their kids are often born at low birth weight or experience health and development problems. ... Also many teenagers agree because half of high school students nationwide report that they need basic info on birth control, HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections. ... Their teen birth rates are lower and the starting sex is a lot lower than the U.S (RTP1). ... But then again if they do decide to make the choice to have sex they should be responsible enough to use protection like condoms or some typ...

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The U.S. has the highest teen pregnancy and birth rate than any other industrialized country. In fact, every state has a birth rate that is higher than that of the United Kingdom. Out of all the teens in the U.S., nearly 500,000 give birth each year. Nearly eighty percent of all teen births are first births, eighteen percent are second births, and three percent are to teens that already have two children. ... Low birth weight babies are most likely to die within the first month of their life. ...

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Birth control is the control of birth or of childbearing by deliberate measures to control or prevent conception, contraception. An understanding of birth control requires some knowledge of human reproduction. ... Most birth control methods are made to prevent contraceptives. ... Some of the more popular birth controls today are the pill, condoms, Norplant, and the shot. All of these forms of birth control are used to prevent teen pregnancy. ...

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Rousseau conveys to the reader that because his mother died while giving birth to him, he is directly responsible for her death. ... Rousseau views his birth, and the subsequent death of his mother, as a grave misfortune. ... His birth is not the celebratory occasion for Rousseau as it is for others. He sees his birth as "the first of my misfortunes" (19), and he "could never forget that I robbed him of her"(19). The foundation of shame lain at the moment of his birth follows him throughout his life, causing him to develop masochistic urges. ...

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There are many benefits of abstinence, such as more self respect, chance to get to know one another more intimately, knowledge that you are not being used as an object for sex, less of a chance of getting a divorce, and a greater trust in your partner that he/she will not cheat on you, there are less worries regarding Aids, STD's, pregnancy, birth control, emotional betrayal, etc. ... Yeah sure there is protection against STD's; such as condoms, birth control, pills, and natural techniques, but they not 100% guarantee, is it worth the risk to you? ...

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Only one instance when a birth control method was introduced sparked: slipping a condom on a banana. No recollection of a lesson on what types of birth control methods or where I could get an ample amount of supplies ever came up. ... Funded programs are prohibited from directly discussing birth control. Some abstinence-only courses try to scare teens out of having intercourse, emphasizing the possibilities for failure of tried and true birth control and disease prevention methods. ... Sexuality education should encourage students to delay sexual intercourse, however, instruction and lesson...

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(The Cause of High Birth Rate p.87) Pregnancy at a young age destroys the life of the baby's parents, especially the mother. ... (The Cause of High Birth Rate" p.88) Many teenagers engage in the sex for all the wrong reasons. ... (The Cause of High Birth Rate p.89) Many teenagers don't even consider using contercepatives so they do get pregnant. In a study preformed it showed that among "the first time teenage parents on welfare, over one-fourth had never used birth control prior to having the first child". (The Cause Of High Birth Rate p88) there are many forms of birth contro...

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Many say that they promote pre-marital sex by their distribution of condoms and birth control (instead of encouraging abstinence as a way to combat teen pregnancy). ... The services that they do provide are as follows: For both men and women P.P. offers healthcare, cancer screening, tests and treatment for sexually transmitted infections, birth control, permanent sterilization, and confidential HIV testing. ... They provide information and classes on birth control methods, disease prevention, sexuality, communication and healthy relationships. ... She is revered in the P.P. website by t...

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While the issue discussed in the article is a legitimate one, it is the frank discussion of students" sexual history and birth control that is inappropriate in a school-sponsored publication distributed to fourteen-year-old freshmen. Without careful guidance, discussion of sexual activity and birth control with high school students may have the effect of encouraging them to have sex. ... Discussion of sexual history and birth control of other students in a school newspaper gives them the impression that having sex is a social norm. ... Many concerned parents are afraid that discussion of se...

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If a teen gives birth and keeps the baby, she will be much more likely than other young women to drop out of school, receive inadequate prenatal care, rely on public assistance to raise her child, develop health problems, and have her marriage end in divorce. ... To be free from the worries of pregnancy and STDs for a few moment, you could use the birth-control methods. Nevertheless, birth control methods are sometimes unreliable. ... Less worries regarding pregnancy, birth control, STD's, emotional betrayal, etc. ... Since no form of contraception, birth control pills, condoms, ect....

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We also know that one possible way to prevent pregnancy is to use some type of birth control method. ... The answer is simple and its easy to remember, BIRTH CONTROL. Birth Control and safe sex are words that we hear daily in our society. There are many forms of birth control. ... Abstinence is the ideal form of birth control, and it is in fact the ONLY 100% effective way to eliminate becoming pregnant and contracting a Sexually Transmitted Disease. ...

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Morality Journal In morality class, we have discussed the effects of having sex before marriage. If the decision is made to have sex before marriage there are so many consequences of this action. It is important to be careful and understand all the issues that come with premarital sex. Teen pregna...

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It shocks me that there are unplanned pregnancies at all in this age of advanced birth control technologies not to mention abstinence. Sure unplanned pregnancies do happen when birth control is used properly. ... Is there is not a better time in the world to practice diligent birth control or abstinence when you can't even bring yourself to commit to a relationship or even decide if you like your significant other? ...

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Birth control would also be administered to all prostitutes in pill form. While there is no 100% effective birth control available, the prostitutes would have to accept the fact that sometimes birth control does fail as being part of their jobs. ...

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Sexual education is not just about birth control and pregnancy. ... Chlamydia can be passed on to an infant during birth causing serious infections. ... Because of poor prenatal care, these babies are more likely to have health problems at birth causing life long disabilities. ... Taxpayers will spend $7 billion this year dealing with social problems resulting from births by girls under the age of eighteen. ...

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In this article, The Catechism tells about such themes as sexuality, marriage and its purposes, chastity as a virtue, forms of chastity, offenses against chastity,(lust, masturbation, fornication, pornography, prostitution), homosexuality, conjugal fidelity, fecundity of marriage, artificial birth control, rhythm method of birth control, gift of children, offenses against the dignity of marriage, free union, and trial marriages. ...

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Birth control and condoms help prevent sexually transmitted diseases and pregnancy. Even though these things can help prevent pregnancy and venereal diseases birth control can lead to cancer and condoms are not one hundred percent effective. ...

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Some STDs are passed from a mother to her child before birth. The disease enters the baby's bloodstream during childbirth as the baby passes through the birth canal, or after birth if the mother nurses the baby and her breast milk is infected. ... One hundred times more contagious than HIV, hepatitis B is spread sexually and during childbirth: Between 90 and 95 percent of all babies born to infected mothers will contract the disease during birth. ...

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The United States has the highest rates of teen pregnancy and births in the western industrialized world. ... Genital herpes can also affect babies during birth, resulting in blind ness, brain damage, or even death. ... Syphilis affects an unborn child with meningitis, deformities, or it can result in a still birth. ...

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It is better to use condoms because the contraceptives such as birth control pills can be extremely expensive to young people, and can create increased body weight, and change of mood. Condoms offer 98% of effectiveness and reduced amounts of STD's without the side effects of some birth control drugs. ...

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Experts estimate that the combination of lost tax revenues and increased spending on public assistance, child health care, foster care and the criminal justice system totals about $7 billion annually for births in teens. Despite a 20-year low in the teen pregnancy rate and an impressive decline in the teen birth rate, the United States still has the highest teen pregnancy rate of any industrialized country (Casey Foundation, 1996). ... In Kids Having Kids: A Robin Hood Foundation Special Report on the Costs of Adolescent Childbearing, researchers note, "During her first 12 years of parenthood,...

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Not only does school condom distribution create an unhealthy environment, but there are other places such as health clinics and such that are more appropriate places for birth control devices and will also allow the condoms to reach a wider variety of people besides simply students. ...

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Safe Sex Equals No Sex "Safe sex" usually refers to preventing pregnancy and guarding against sexually transmitted diseases. Sex outside of marriage is not natural. Unexpected pregnancy, disease, and hurt can come as a result of premarital sex. It becomes obvious that people need to understand th...

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You must have yourself and your partner tested for any diseases, and the most important, use protection, birth control, and condoms. ... Instead, they left them to glean what they could from teenage magazines in which the underlying message was that sexual activity was the norm, perhaps contributing to Britain having the highest teenage birth rate in Western Europe." ...

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SEX IS STUDENTS" FIRST PRIORITY College is the best four years of your life; at least that's what everyone says. This is for one good reason: SEX. And why shouldn't it be? Take a lot of horny, inexperienced kids, put them onto some campus far removed from their pa...

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