... prospects down the path. In the first two seasons of Gossip Girl, at least four virginity losses are illustrated. American teenagers tend to see it as a right of passage into adulthood. One of the three 'virginity loss scripts' used in television that sociologist Maura Kelly defines, which falls in line with Gossip Girl's depictions, is the 'management script'. In ... this script, teens use contraception, communicate with adults about their experiences, do it within a monogamous romantic relationship, and are 'old enough' (484). However, for a vast number of teens the dis...

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... . And 80 percent of those young, single mothers will live below the poverty line, receive welfare, and raise children who are at risk for many difficulties as they grow to adulthood" (McIlhaney). Without comprehensive sex education the academic and professional lives of too many young people, will be cut short, too many unwanted children will be born into unstable homes, and ... , when they are finally "allowed" to have sex. Secretly, this may be the goal of some abstinence programs where many of the lecturers have had terrible, horrifying, and painful sexual experiences, forever perverti...

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... -esteem levels may be low and communicative ability is limited. These factors may shed light on why teenagers engage in sexual activity as if to show they are ready for adulthood, instead it shows the opposite. The majority of research done on teenage parenting seems to focus on mothers. This may be attributed to the fact that women are the ones ... , and intervention programs have shown differing effects. But what is most notable is that these methods and programs all contribute to educating our youth about the consequences of early sexual experiences. We must put our faith into believin...

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