Many teenagers engage in sex at a very age for the wrong reasons. This is a problem that society is trying is to fix but it is not working because rates are continuing to go up. ... Although many girl's become pregnant and guy's get them pregnant it isn't primarily because of their individual and family character because that is not fixed it's other things that influence them to go about their decision. ... Teenagers never realize that they have so much ahead of them and that things change. ... If society works in a whole they can change the values of the children growing...

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Teenagers may ask friends about sex; however, teenagers should not give other teenagers information about sex. ... If parents wait too long to talk to their teenagers about sex, then more than likely they will go out and experiment. ... Teenagers do not need to find out about sex from other teenagers who have only common knowledge about sex. Teenagers need professionals teaching them about sex, not someone who knows as little as the teenagers. ... If society does not take a stand with this issue, then many teenagers will go out in the world with only inadequate details of sex education and ...

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Teenagers may ask friends about sex; however, teenagers should not give other teenagers information about sex. ... If parents wait too long to talk to their teenagers about sex, then more than likely they will go out and experiment. ... Teenagers do not need to find out about sex from other teenagers who have only common knowledge about sex. Teenagers need professionals teaching them about sex, not someone who knows as little as the teenagers. ... If society does not take a stand with this issue, then many teenagers will go out in the world with only inadequate details of sex education and ...

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An on going debate has continued regarding the notification of parents on abortion. ... Information must be obtained on the psychological effects of abortion on teenage mothers before any federal law goes into existence on teen abortions. ... In the argument that the teenager should have to tell the parents because she will receive good and informative advice, support, and understanding I think is not true because if the parents were like that from the beginning and offered that kind of love, the teenager would have no need to go out and look for some other sort of forced love (sex). ...

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Teenagers, male and female alike go through hormones changes that drive them toward sexual thoughts and actions. ... Look at the Catholics; they have the bible yet their hypocrisy is seen every Saturday when they go to bars and then on Sunday they go pray on a pew. ... A teenager's brain is not yet completely formed and matured. ... I realized that this is the exact feeling that every teenager doesn't want to feel, and that is why the majority of teens find it too hard to go to their parents involving things like this. Which is why I strongly believe that schools should step in, so t...

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This has now led to some schools having to start dispensing free condoms and contraceptives to students who go to the school's health clinics. ... Both in sexual behavior and in all other areas of behavior, teenagers strive to attain social acceptance by their peers, which is common at the stage in which teenagers are. ... Also related to the issue of teenage sex due to peers is the lack of good communication between parents and teenagers, and the wanted independence by teenagers. ... When there is no good communication between parents and teenagers, teenagers turn to their peers for advi...

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The United States" teenage birthrate exceeds that of most other industrialized nations, even though American teenagers are no more sexually active than teenagers in Canada or Europe (Gormly, 1997). ... African-American and Hispanic teenagers are twice as likely to give birth as are white teenagers. ... Babies born to teenagers are often too small and too soon. ... Some research indicates that "the percentage of teenage birthrates has declined simply because fewer teenagers are having sexual intercourse and more teenagers are using contraceptives (Johnson, 1995)." ... The outcome of teena...

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I got out of bed and went up to tell my mom I did not want to go to school. ... I was going to be a kid for as absolutely long as possible. ... Of us 5 women here today, almost 2 of us would have been pregnant as a teenager. ... About 80% of young people have sex as a teenager. ... So why are so many teenagers sexually active? ...

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I feel that unintended pregnancy, especially among teenagers, is the result of not being able to obtain birth control, being too afraid to buy some, or feeling that no one else uses it. Most of these oblivious teenagers will still have sex whether a form of birth control is used or not so I believe that there should be more places for sexually active teenagers to go to obtain birth control or information about it. Also, organizations, such as Real Life Choices, should be spread more among the pre-teenagers and teenagers in schools. These organizations teach about saving sex until marriage and ...

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Pro-choice think that if abortion is outlawed then women will be forced to go back to back-alley abortion clinics. ... Each year, one million teenagers become pregnant and 85% are unintended. ... The argument goes that teenagers have trouble confronting the reality of their problem and so fail to seek an earlier, "safer" abortion. ... Certainly it is not uncommon for teenage mothers to go through short periods of denial about a pregnancy. In every case where a teenager had a late term abortion, not one stated that she didn't realize or couldn't accept that she was pregnant. ...

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Being a teenager means that you have many more tasks to accomplish and many more physical and emotional changes to go through. The changes that teenagers experience are those among sexual activity, violence, and drug abuse. ... My mission is to find out if the causes of teenagers" actions result from media and peers. ... Shirley declared, "Drug abuse among teens is a result of peer pressure, curiosity, and going with the flow". ... It may have a reverse effect and the teen may actually go and do it". ...

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When we think about making more sexual education classes for teenagers we have to consider everyone's opinions about this subject. ... When we look at national census taken, we have a very clear picture of the ignorance in this subject among teenagers. ... With this in mind, one needs to understand that many teenagers are not well aware of what actually happens when they decide to engage in sexual activity. What teenagers go through is very similar throughout the country. ... Throughout the country, most of the programs available teach only certain parts of sex, and abstinence is stressed...

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Some abortion methods cause serious complications in women but more so in teenagers. ... A teenager is not aware of all the possible long-term complications that can result from an abortion. ... Most teenagers, but not all are unable to make proper decisions concerning their health. Adolescent teenagers are not mature enough to take full responsibility for their actions. ... With a teenage abortion being illegal without parental consent in most states, teenagers will go to an illegal clinic for the procedure. ...

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Some abortion methods cause serious complications in women but more so in teenagers. ... A teenager is not aware of all the possible long-term complications that can result from an abortion. ... Most teenagers, but not all are unable to make proper decisions concerning their health. Adolescent teenagers are not mature enough to take full responsibility for their actions. ... With a teenage abortion being illegal without parental consent in most states, teenagers will go to an illegal clinic for the procedure. ...

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When it was said that MTV would air 16 & Pregnant in 2009 the article "MTV Reaches Out to Teens to Prevent Teen Pregnancy" said that the show was going to be the real life The Secret Life of The American Teenager. ... The shows do not show every pregnant teenager and how they live their life. ... To also support this there was a study of how the show impacted teenagers. ... Being a teenage girl myself I would never want to go through what the girls on these shows go through. ... They started off as normal teenagers just like most of us who got their selves into a situation that was ...

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Although the onset of pregnancy may occur in any teenager, some teens are at higher risk for unplanned pregnancy than others. ... Teenagers are participating in the new world of sexual freedom. ... With more and more teens having casual sex, the risks of pregnancy goes up. ... Teenagers who come from poor neighborhoods are at a high risk for pregnancy. ... More than half of all welfare recipients were teenagers when their first child was born. ...

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The two teenagers claimed that they were afraid to tell their families because of their strong Catholic upbringing. ... With how common baby abandonment has become, it seems to cross many women's minds, mostly teenagers. ... They are just hoping it will go away by some miracle. ... " "They [babies] don't go away and, of course, the crisis is when the baby is born. ... If teenagers were taught that there is a safe place to turn to when they feel like there is no where to go, we wouldn't have incidents like the "prom baby". ...

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Millions of teenagers in the United States are misinformed about the risks of being sexually active and think nothing bad could ever happen to them but through sex education class students would learn about different types of sexually transmitted diseases and how to avoid getting them. ... Parents do not always feel comfortable talking to their teenagers about sex and how to protect themselves from STD's and unwanted pregnancies. ... "Concluded that teenagers who had studied under such programs were no more likely to abstain from sex than those who had not had such education" (F...

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It can be unsafe for young teenagers to go through with pregnancy, they can die because their bodies aren't mature enough. Many teenagers cannot provide the right conditions for raising a child for they are still children themselves. ... The pro-lifer would say that the teenager could give the baby up for adoption and save a life. ...

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These pregnancies had a tendency of curtailing their advancement in the professional world especially as they would have to leave their jobs and go on maternity leave (Gordon, 2007). ... Thirdly, the introduction of the birth control pill in 1960 has led to a reduction in cases of pregnancies among school going children and teenagers (Gordon, 2007). Although the use of these pills by teenagers is discouraged, it has helped them keep unwanted and unplanned pregnancies at bay (Collins, 2010). ... It has been reported that teenagers rank as one of the most frequent users of this birth control tec...

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When the teens get pregnant they tend go on welfare because they know that the system would take care of them and their child. ... The outcome of the children by teenagers, tend to turn to a life of crime. ... Shahala, announced that the percentage of teenagers who had sexual intercourse had declined for the time after increasing steadily for more than two decades. ... Various means have been recommended to combat the problem of teenage pregnancy, including universal sex education, free contraceptive services for teenagers, open discussion of sex between parents and children, and the media. ...

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In the case of teenagers, abortion is extremely difficult to obtain on demand. ... In some states, there are laws that say a minor must have permission of at least one parent, sometimes both parents, to go through with the abortion. ... For example, if a young woman gets pregnant and feels that she cannot tell her parents, she must go through a "judicial bypass" to override the consent of her parents, and have the court decide if she is mature enough to make her own decision. Most teenagers don't have the time or means to get to a court hearing or have the emotional strength to get throu...

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Problems Today teenagers are getting mixed messages from parents, peers, and the media. ... Abortion is being used as a method of birth control, which was proved in a study done by the Lancet magazine February 1995, pg. 300 that 245 of teenagers aged seventeen to nineteen have undergone induced abortions. ... Pro-Life movement will win, because when you hold up a picture of a six month old fetus being stabbed in the neck and all you say is " choice, choice, choice" you are going to loose. ...

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Most teenagers in eighth grade to senior year in high school lose their virginity. ... As a teenager you should be worried about school and friends, not being pregnant or possibly have a sexually transmitted disease. ... The cycle goes the same every month. ...

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It is a fact that "2.5 million teenagers are affected by sexually transmitted diseases each year" ("The Effects" 632). ... If you present children with a "don't do it" attitude then it will regulate the amount of activity going on. ... She is less likely than an older teenager to be in a steady relationship, to plan her first intercourse, or to use contraception" (Whitehead 74.) ...

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