Today, the demand for birth control pills has risen over the years, and this has become very important for many women. With this point, getting birth control pills with parental consent is a debatable topic. Discussed in this paper, are reasons teenagers should not seek consent from their parents before getting birth control pills. ... Furthermore, the use of birth control pills reduces the rate of abortion in teenagers. ... This also includes the right to obtain and make use of birth control pills. ...

• Word Count: 1086
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Parents should be addressing topics such as changes during puberty, how women become pregnant, proper use of birth control and condoms, as well as homosexuality. ... In the latest study on parent-child talks about sex and sexuality, researchers found that more than 40% of adolescents have had intercourse before talking to their parents about safe sex, birth control or sexually transmitted diseases " (Park, 2009). ...

• Word Count: 1000
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

According to the Washington Post, 16 and Pregnant led to a 5.7% reduction in teen births (Goldstein). That is a whopping 20,000 fewer teen births a year. ... In 2009, there were 39.1 births per 1000 women between the ages of 15 and 19. This was the mark of an all-time low in teenage birth rates. ... The United States has the highest teen birth rate in the first world. ...

• Word Count: 2898
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

From barrier methods, such as contraceptive sponges, a diaphragm, and a female or male condom, to hormonal methods such the patch, injection, or the pill, and lastly implantable devices which are surgically inserted to avoid pregnancy ("Birth Control Methods" 1-5). ... Topics, including birth control, safer, sex, and the matter of sexual orientation. ...

• Word Count: 1819
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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. ...

• Word Count: 1541
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Thalidomide: Caused about 10,000 birth defects worldwide Clioquinol: Caused 30,000 cases of blindness and/or paralysis and thousands of deaths Conversely, many drugs that are beneficial to humans are dangerous or even fatal to animals: Penicillin: An antibiotic to humans, but kill's guinea pigs. Aspirin: Caused birth defects in rats, mice, monkeys, guinea pigs, cats and dogs, but not humans. ... Thalidomide: Caused about 10,000 birth defects worldwide Clioquinol: Caused 30,000 cases of blindness and/or paralysis and thousands of deaths Conversely, many drugs that are beneficial to humans ...

• Word Count: 1554
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Once parents have a better understanding of this, they will be more accepting and allow their young sons to carry condoms and young ladies to be on birth control. ... The transmission between male-male contact, injection, heterosexual contact and the birthing process will be discussed in depth following how homosexual contact and heterosexual contact are different. ...

• Word Count: 808
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"The best contraception today is injectable hormonal contraception because you don't need a doctor, it's long-lasting, it enables women to control timing and spacing of birth without a lot of fuss and travel," said Isobel Coleman of the Council on Foreign Relations. ... "Conversely, limiting one of the most highly used effective methods of contraception in sub-Saharan Africa would probably contribute to increased maternal mortality and morbidity and more low birth weight babies and orphans - and equally tragic result" (MSNBC)....

• Word Count: 794
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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. ...

• Word Count: 300
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Although birth rates have declined slightly, mortality rates in underdeveloped nations are on the increase. ... Although birth rates have declined slightly, mortality rates in underdeveloped nations are on the increase. ... Although birth rates have declined slightly, mortality rates in underdeveloped nations are on the increase. ...

• Word Count: 1499
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

HIV can also be transmitted from an HIV infected mother to newborn, through child birth and breast milk. ... HIV can be transmitted directly by sexual contact with infected person, infected breast milk, and from infected mother to newborn during child birth. ...

• Word Count: 1303
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Another way to transmit an STI is mother to infant at birth or during breast feeding (Mayo, "Risk"). ... It's vital to wear a condom when having any kind of sex because they are one of the only birth control methods which prevents transmission of STIs. ... Henrietta explains that for some reason the sex hurts: When sex first started hurting, she thought it had something to do with baby Deborah, who she'd just given birth to a few weeks earlier, or the bad blood David sometimes brought home after nights with other women – the kind doctors treated with shots of penicil...

• Word Count: 2116
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

AIDS is the number one killer in Africa. In Africa, nearly one out of every four people is HIV positive. This disease has left an estimated 13.4 million African children under the age of fifteen without one or both parents. By the end of the year 2000, about thirteen-million children were orphane...

• Word Count: 619
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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. ...

• Word Count: 609
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Numbers of children infected by this route have steadily decreased in industrialized countries due to the administration of anti-retroviral drug therapy to the mother before and during birth and to the infant following birth (Ledergerber B, et al. 1999). ...

• Word Count: 1861
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) was set up by the regime of General Yakubu Gowon via decree 24 of 1973 and later modified by the regime of General Ibrahim Babangida through decree 51 of 1993 to inculcate in Nigeria youth the spirit of selfless service to the community and to promote of onene...

• Word Count: 836
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

AIDS AIDS stand for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. This is the condition caused by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus called HIV. People who have a positive blood test for the virus are said to be HIV positi...

• Word Count: 1079
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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. ...

• Word Count: 764
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Furthermore, contact with infected blood from mother to their baby during giving birth or breastfeeding will lead to the transmission of HIV but this risk is smaller to the babies if the mother receives treatment for HIV infection during pregnancy. ...

• Word Count: 1279
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

His argument is that the only method of birth control that should be taught in sex education classes is abstinence should taught as be the only sex education because having sex at an early stage of life could lead to increased teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. ...

• Word Count: 1169
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Aleece Lilie Sex Education in High School There are many different ways to address sexual education in high school. Some people believe abstinence-only programs are the best way to keep teenagers from having sex. Joe S. McIlhaney, the President of the Medical Institute for Sexual Health, expose...

• Word Count: 955
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In a world where so many people from all spheres of influence are suffering and being plagued by this deadly virus that has spread and almost engulfed the whole world, it is of great importance to look at the way in which Christianity have done or need to do in response to HIV and AIDS. There are many people who have praised or still praise small Christian communities which have developed some social groups as a way of responding to the call of those in need of help, those who are suffering in one way or the other from HIV and AIDS. On the other hand some patients have experienced hell on eart...

• Word Count: 5303
• Approx Pages: 21
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Opponents of these programmes claim that providing access to condoms and even discussing the benefits of birth control and disease prevention methods other than abstinence encourages teenagers to engage in sexual activity that might otherwise refrain from. ... Funded programmes are prohibited from directly discussing birth control. ...

• Word Count: 4152
• Approx Pages: 17
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate