Safe Sex Equals No Sex "Safe sex" usually refers to preventing pregnancy and guarding against sexually transmitted diseases. ... Unexpected pregnancy, disease, and hurt can come as a result of premarital sex. ... Yet, it has been shown in many studies that the condom is known to have at least a ten percent failure rate in preventing pregnancy. ... Other studies, which consider not only condom defects but mistakes by the user, indicate failure can be as high as thirty-six to forty percent in preventing pregnancy. Even other forms of contraceptives are never perfect in preventing pregnancy. ...

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Teen pregnancy, how could this be? ... Teen pregnancy is a concept that I do not agree with. ... In my situation with my cousin I demonstrated counter attitudinal advocacy by not telling her that I truly do not agree with teen pregnancy. ... From that day forth my views on teen pregnancy as change dramatically. I find that pregnancy is not in a person's control unless they practice abstenance....

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Pregnancy was a celebrated occasion warranting elaborate feasts and celebrations. ... Pregnancy and childbirth were different for the Incas than for the Aztecs. Pregnant women prayed during their pregnancies to gods. During pregnancy, the Inca women did not stop their hard work like the Aztec women did. They kept working throughout the pregnancy and practically had the baby in the field as they worked. ...

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European teenagers have just as much sex as we do but their pregnancy rate is 2 to 6 times lower than ours. ... Consider this: the approximately 4-6 million sexually active American teenage girls have over one million pregnancies and 400,000 abortions each year. ... We can't blame all teenage pregnancies on innocence because 1 in 5 teenage mothers get pregnant again within two years. ... The result: millions of American women have unwanted pregnancies. ... We don't experience the stress of worrying about unwanted pregnancies, or an STD, that would kill or cripple our children" (Solo...

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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. ... It really helps a marriage to go through this year and sometimes longer without the added stress of a pregnancy and impending arrival of that third person. ... I know a lot of couples who married after pregnancy or because of pregnancy. ...

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It works against pregnancy, not to mention HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases. ... One thing you need to keep in mind is that pregnancy is not a disease. ... Sure, it will protect you from pregnancy. ... They are the only contraceptives that can protect you from both STDs and pregnancy. ... Teenage parents may also say their pregnancy will not affect their education. ...

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Two of the biggest fears in premarital sex are STDs (sexually transmitted diseases) and unwanted pregnancy. ... These are used to prevent unwanted pregnancy and STDs. ... When a condom does fail there is a high risk of catching a STD or having an unwanted pregnancy. In the chance of a pregnancy there are alternatives such as raising the child on your own, giving it up for abortion, and the sinful way out, having an abortion. ...

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Two of the biggest fears in premarital sex are STDs (sexually transmitted diseases) and unwanted pregnancy. ... These are used to prevent unwanted pregnancy and STDs. ... When a condom does fail there is a high risk of catching a STD or having an unwanted pregnancy. In the chance of a pregnancy there are alternatives such as raising the child on your own, giving it up for abortion, and the sinful way out, having an abortion. ...

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Secondly, because of all the sexual transmitted diseases, and teenage pregnancies these days, parents start becoming extremely cautious. ... The third and most important reason parents should not have to be notified is that there will be more teenage pregnancies because the children will be too scared of their parents" reaction and will not use protection. ... From daughters having to admit to there parents of there sexual feeling, worrying about the parents reaction towards her boyfriend, and to finally the overall fear of the reaction, ending up in teenage pregnancies. ...

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Unlike former years, individuals do not need to restrain themselves from engaging in sexual pleasures, since pregnancy has become preventable. ... Hence, the intention of preventing premarital sex, has shifted a step ahead to preventing premarital pregnancy. ... Naturally, with the existing stigma attached to premarital pregnancy, marriage provides lovers the opportunity to explore the subsequent domain of forming a family unit of their own. ...

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Women in the Seneca tribe were often faced with harsh trials of life, including troubled pregnancies, short marriages with often absent husbands, and rough phases to face with their young children. ... When a Seneca woman's pregnancy ended well and the child was lucky enough to live, the Seneca tribe was often traveling from place to place in search of new, fertile land to farm. ...

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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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About a year later, she had taken a home pregnancy test and to her disbelief it had come out positive. ... From that moment forward, pregnancy was no longer a purely happy exciting event. ... Twenty five weeks of pregnancy hadn't changed her shape significantly. ...

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Both parents are concerned about Dan and Denise's health and the fear of pregnancy so Solange has purchased him a box of condoms for protection. ... Wes and Arlene, an older, African-American couple in the group, raise the issue further of pregnancy and resulting children and the difficulty in dealing with those consequences. ... She is also trying to prevent any unwanted pregnancies and this could also be viewed as looking out for Denise's health. ...

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The use of wording produces an image of pregnancy which is meant to arouse the woman's maternal instinct which might therefore lead to sex. The speaker uses choice words such as "suck(ing)" (3) not as a coincidence, but to add to the pregnancy image. ... The last stanza is very clever because the speaker makes the point that applying images of pregnancy, marriage and sex to the flea is irrational and almost crazy but it is just as crazy irrational as her fears of being damned to hell for having premarital sex. ...

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Actually, men are not totally in fault because till you go through a pregnancy and labor, you cannot understand what it really means to be a mother. ... Moreover, it is a fact that after child-birth, most women go through that is known as " baby blues" a deep depression that occur due to hormone unbalance and other stuffs that come with pregnancy. ... Those usually started with the pregnancy and goes persist after birth. ...

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According to The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy expressed that 3 in 10 girls in the United States get pregnant by age 20. ... This leaves teens vulnerable to inaccurate information or being uninformed on important preventative measures to pregnancy or STD's. ...

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Marriage and "Beyond the Forest" The film "Beyond the Forest" is a perfect example of why marriage isn't for everyone. The main character of the film is Rosa Moline, played by Betty Davis. The film takes place in a small country town. Rosa is a person who is never satisfied. Of all of the women ...

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Margaret Sanger's "My Fight for Birth Control" is truly a moving and emotional text depicting the pregnancy/abortion related horrors women had to live through (and very often, died for). She had worked as a nurse, able to witness first hand the suffering of these mostly poor/middle class women and ...

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La Llorona One of the first legends I came across said that the Llorona was to thought to be a witch. Sophia was her name. She lived in a small town where young girls had to be married by the age of sixteen. Sophia was nineteen when she met this handsome man named Luis. She gave birth to a ...

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When Christians are often faced with an ethical dilemma, they tend to base their opinions on what the Bible suggests. When the Bible is used to justify any means of behaviour, it usually becomes a moral issue. A main issue at hand in today's society is whether premarital sex is classified as moral...

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She struggles through her husband's unemployment, her son going off to war, her daughter's pregnancy, and her son's death and still manages to keep her family together. ... She has to find a way to cover her illegitimate pregnancy and manages to marry Emmanuel whom she does not love at all. ...

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Ivan becomes secluded after his wife's pregnancy, the things he expected to come from marriage did not occur "his wife began disrupting the ease and propriety of his life" (Tolstoy, 2003). ... The decision to act, as he believed his superiors expected led to his decision to marry, which led to his wife's pregnancy and ultimately the jealousy, demand for attention and disruption of his life's propriety (Tolstoy, 2003). ...

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After I was about 5 months pregnant I began to start having some complications with my pregnancy, and that sent me into premature labor with my daughter. ... We had the stress of having to work, go see our daughter who is about an hour and a half away daily, money was getting tight because of the traveling, finding sitters for the children we already had and I was on an emotional roller-coaster ride just from the stress and worry that came along with my pregnancy. ...

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Marriage is the union of 2 people whom we call spouses. According to customs, it is a promise of mutual faithfulness until death, but from experience, marriage has not live up to this expectation. Whence question of it being valid or not: legal validity or custom validity or religion or practical va...

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