Lack of knowledge in these areas is evident not only in survey but also in medical research. Teenagers comprise the largest age group with STDs because they are largely ignorant about these diseases. Ferdinand M. De Leon, noted sexuality researcher explains that, "The first time many hear of chlamydia is when they learn they have it". No one can protect himself or herself from a threat they don't even recognize. In fact, some 31 percent of teen girls were completely unprotected the last time they had sex contributing to the 3 million teens (about 1 in 4 sexually experienced teens) that acquire an STD every year (Teen). Many of these STDs can be cured, or at least alleviated by modern medicine; however, pregnancy and teenage motherhood are not so easily coped with. As sexually active teenagers who do not use contraceptives have a 90% chance of becoming pregnant within one year (Teen), a teen not using birth control unquestionably needs to become quickly educated about it. Despite these damning statistics, the overall U.S. teenage pregnancy rate declined 17% between 1990 and 1996, but these declines should fuel only optimism and not complacency, because the number of pregnancies in females younger than 20 years in the United States continues to approach 1 million per year; "More than three quarters of these pregnancies are assumed to be unintended" Trinchieri 4 (Hellerstedt) and more than half of these pregnancies (56% of 905,000 teenage pregnancies) ended in births (Teen). Having a child to care for at such a young age is likely to ruin the life of, or at least terminate the hopes of, any teenage girl. In "Kids Having Kids", a 1996 report from the Robin Hood Foundation, it is revealed that only "30 percent of girls who become pregnant before age 18 will earn a high-school diploma by the age of 30, compared with 76 percent of women who delay child bearing until after age 20. 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).
The Value of Kindness Kindness is the single most important factor to success in my life. Building strong personal alliances, mending bruised spirits, and taking unfamiliar people by surprise are just a few of the benefits of kindness. I feel that nearly all of the friends I have in my life I hav...
Dedicated to my loving husband, Michael "Hello", they said as they smiled at each other in the light of the moon. She was 16 and he was 15. In the days and months that followed, a friendship bloomed and flourished. They looked forward to spending time together, talking and laughing for hours. on en...
"What do you say after you say hello", by Eric Berne,M.D. What do you say after you say hello? ... The Methodology in "What do you say after you say hello", has a few problems, Eric Bernme said that he tried not to let these problems interfere with this book, but he say they did in a way. ... The book "What do you say after you say hello", by Dr. ...
Happiness is Made of Gold Hello Again is a play that shows how lust can take over two different people in the heat of passion, striving only for pleasure, and how quickly this feeling can fade away. ... Hello Again is a great play, with excellent actors and interesting characters. ...
Wednesday, June 24, 1942 After school a 16-year-old boy was waiting for Anne after school named Hello Silberberg. ... Wednesday, July 1, 1942 Hello said that Anne is much more interesting then his girlfriend Ursula, which made Anne happy. Hello also said that his Grandmother feels she is too young for him, but Hello wanted to continue seeing Anne. Hello then broke up with Ursula and said he likes Anne better. Anne feels Hello loves her but she doesn't love Hello. ...
In The Catcher in the Rye by J.D Stalinger, there are many examples that symbolize and illustrate phoniness in our society. These examples show realistic events and scenarios of phoniness that play out in our day to day lives. The books viewpoints are demonstrated throughout many altering perspectiv...
A Needy Pig Once there was a needy big, in need of a friend. He lived on an empty barn all alone, and all by himself. His days and nights were spent dreaming about a friend he could have. One day he decided that he would try to look for a friend, so he left his deserted barn to hopefully stum...
The oral communication of saying "Hello" triggers a reaction from the other person. ... In the hello example, the sender of the message knew that saying hello often triggers some sort of response. ... In the hello example, the sender knew that the word "Hello" would trigger a response of "Hello" or "How are you?". ...
