... behaviors and risk-taking which causes eighty two percent of teenage pregnancies to be intended and sixty nine percent to be unplanned."(The Cause of High Birth Rate p.87) Pregnancy at a young age destroys the life of the baby's parents, especially the mother. "Teenage bearing interferes with the education and ... employment prospects of the young mother and their prospects for marriage." (The Cause of High Birth Rate" p.88) Many teenagers engage in the sex for all the wrong reasons. Although many girl's become pregnant and guy's get them pregnant it isn't ... stated that less than 10 p...

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... using and abusing illegal drugs is as strong as it has ever been. But today, the youth of America are faced with a crisis unique to the modern era; the soaring rate of adolescent AIDS infection. The Human Immunodeficiency Virus, or HIV, causes the terminal Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome. AIDS weakens the body's immune system to a point where any ordinary infection, such as ... risk of contracting HIV or AIDS, the Government has set up many abstinence programs in our schools in order to try and quell the problem. One such program is the "Me, My World, Future Program" (Mays et al., 19...

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... benefits of condoms and contraception." This would be understandable if it was decreasing the amount of teen pregnancies, but it is not. Between 1991 and 2004, the teen birth rate dropped from 6.2% to 4.1%. During the same period, sexual education rose along with condom and contraception use. This just shows that some teens are going to have sex no matter what ... students all the information about sexual education, but it is also having some reverse effects. A recent Colombia University study found that "virginity pledge" programs still had an 88% rate of premarital sex. Although it di...

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... reported to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). (www.CDC.gov/STD/gonnorhea.htm) Though the national rate of gonorrhea cases has dropped annually since 1985, it is still an infectious disease needing to be stopped. In 2002, the rate of reported gonorrhea infections was about 125 people for every 100,000. People get gonorrhea by having sexual contact with ... virus, but children are also becoming infected. It is estimated that there are 2000 babies born every day with the HIV/AIDS virus. (www.niaid.nih.gov/factsheets.htm) To me this is the worst this is the worst type of ...

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... bathroom. "I would just lie there for two hours; I couldn't get up to take those five steps. When I was taken to the hospital, I had to have someone come over to dress me. It's that kind of severe fatigue....The quality of my life was pitiful... (Farber 7)." While Fred suffers from AIDS, his severe fatigue is not a side effect of the disease. Rather ... prevent HIV patients from progressing to AIDS. Soon propaganda for AZT could be found everywhere. Posters declared that without AZT, AIDS patients had a 100 percent fatality rate--when in fact they had a 15 percent survival rate (Dispatc...

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... wins, he gets a kiss. Well he won, shockingly, and he ultimately got his kiss. The date would then resume at a nice Italian restaurant. After some talk on how they would rate themselves in bed and the weirdest place they had ever had sex, they decided to get some body shots. This led to more shots, with the two getting noticeably drunk ... they might have had otherwise. It is their recipe for good television. One reason why people should not be promiscuous today is due to the fact of the growing STD rate. According to Health Matters, a National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseas...

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... are calling for the decriminalization of prostitution is that it would greatly reduce the levels of crime. When interviewed (by me), Chief of Police in Haddon Township, Joseph Gallagher stated, "many countries have benefited significantly from prostitution in Sweden alone, the crime rate has split in half since they decided to allow prostitution it's only a matter of time before the States jump ... a victimless crime, why are we putting so much time, effort, and money into prostitution enforcement when we could be putting these same efforts towards something more useful? (If you ask me,...

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... that they are going to be 100% effective. Though using a condom is considered "safer" sex, there are still consequences that may have to be faced at some point, and a high rate of STD's and pregnancies indicate that the teens are not properly protecting themselves and that the condoms are not properly protecting the teens. Now the question teens need to ask ... themselves is "Am I going to be able to handle whatever it is that might happen to me?" Before that question is to be answered, teens better think long and hard about what it is that might happen. It may be something as serious a...

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... . "Walk around Macy's. Don't do anything."" she told him.# How a mother could leave her child's fate in the hands of a mall and those who are within it is well beyond me. The malls are packed after school. God bless the child, not to have a predator aware of his lonely presence. But one has to ask, if this is what everything has ... from the truth. That is something you cannot do when you are talking about the welfare of a human being. "Haiti, the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere, has the highest rate of AIDS outside Africa.""# Also reported, is that six, out of the eight, millio...

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... continues to say that if Johnny were trying to persuade Susie into having sex he could just say, "Hey, everything is okay. Nothing will go wrong. Heck, the school gave me this condom, they know what they"re doing. You"ll be fine". The essay consists of about thirty percent data and about seventy percent sarcastic generalizations. However, he doesn't use ... statistics very well, nor does he appeal to expert authority or popular opinion. For instance, he says, "The condom failure rate can be as high as twenty percent," but where did this information come from. Furthermore, he uses langua...

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... continues to say that if Johnny were trying to persuade Susie into having sex he could just say, "Hey, everything is okay. Nothing will go wrong. Heck, the school gave me this condom, they know what they"re doing. You"ll be fine". The essay consists of about thirty percent data and about seventy percent sarcastic generalizations. However, he doesn't use ... statistics very well, nor does he appeal to expert authority or popular opinion. For instance, he says, "The condom failure rate can be as high as twenty percent," but where did this information come from. Furthermore, he uses langua...

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... , a decline from 62 births per thousand in 1972 to 50 per thousand in 1986, then back up to 60 per thousand in 1990. Among the 15-17 year olds the rate climbed 23 percent from 1985 to 1994, from 31 per thousand to 38 percent. But the age group 15-19 has dropped 3 percent. One million teens get pregnant every year ... can have someone to love them and that they want to be more mature socially in the world. I hear about this topic on talk shows and from friends. It shocks me because why would you put yourself in the position to take care of a child for one when you are a child and two, whe...

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... is simple. Alcohol causes many diseases. Such as, liver cirrhosis, increased stroke risk, decreased mental performance, heart disease, peptic ulcers, hepatitis and various forms of cancer. Marijuana causes increased heart rate, blood pressure, and stress. Basically, almost anyone pot smoking or not would rather be in a room of 50 people who are smoking weed or smoked prior to; than a room of ... 't pay, if you commit than plan on a very long stay!" Yet, it is common knowledge marijuana is, how it is used and what comes with the usage. All that to me is extremely tolerable. I am suing bec...

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... .harford.edu). This new found freedom caused everyone to take advantage that they didn't have to hide anymore. From that time forward gay sexuality was in the open. As the rate of casual sex skyrocketed, so did the rates of sexually transmitted diseases. Gonorrhea reports tripled and syphilis reports quadrupled between 1965-1975 (http://unhavax.harford.edu). To give and example ... told him to stop participating in any sexual activity because he might be transmitting this disease to others. He was claimed to have harshly replied, "Somebody gave this thing to me. I"m not going to give up ...

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