I am wrighting a paper on teenage preg for
my soc class it is an annotated
bibliography paper I would like you guys
to help out see if we are thinging the
same things. I have to
describe the content (focus) of this,
usefulness of this, discuss any
limitations that the item may have, the
reliability of knowing about teenage pg,
what all do you guys think
ways that we could prevent teenage pg and
get better eduacted on this because we all
know there are too many teens out there
that are not informed on this.
Thanks shelley
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2ferano
Extremely EHEALTHy
Joined: 23 Dec 2003 Posts: 3717
Posted: 10-24-04 17:33pm
I think that sex ed needs to be taught
early on and often. Well, not taught
again necessarily, but brought up and
discussed. Condoms should be available
at school and girls should have info on
where to get birth control. Like family
planning or someplace like that where the
parent's do not have to know or consent.
I also think that girls should be taught
(separately from boys of course) all that
goes along with sex. How not to do it
and why to stand up for yourself. Of
course this does not apply to all people,
but a lot of girls (more than we know)
have sex to feel loved, for attention, to
fit in or to keep her boyfriend. If
self-esteem were promoted then I think
that would make a large difference.
I mean, sex ed really has let us down, so
maybe the answer does lie in a completely
different approach, such as teaching
self-esteem and self-discipline, etc.
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samismama
Active User, Really EHEALTHy
Joined: 24 Sep 2004 Posts: 824
Posted: 10-24-04 17:41pm
One thing that always upsets me is when
teen girls think raising your own baby is
easy or doable just because they babysit a
lot or feel like they've "raised" a
sibling or family member
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IDABABY
Extremely EHEALTHy
Joined: 12 Mar 2004 Posts: 2236 Location: ***Wisconsin Baby***
Posted: 10-24-04 19:13pm
I am doing almost the exact same
paper...Mine is due on the 28th. Its an
agrumentive paper. My main points were
-parents-
-programs-
-protection-
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bellax0x
Extremely EHEALTHy
Joined: 10 Jun 2004 Posts: 3572 Location: Jersey Baby!
Posted: 10-24-04 20:58pm
Yeah I wrote an opinionated essay on teen
pg. But I think yours is going a diff way
with it. Sorry I cant help
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gayb
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jessamyn
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Joined: 18 Aug 2004 Posts: 4116 Location: San Diego, CA
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Posted: 10-25-04 12:43pm
Make teens aware that you can get pregnant
stick em with a baby for a week (even the
electronic ones)
make em make a baby finacnial budget in
class make sure they can do it if they are
having sex they need to be able to afford
sex..
Make em aware of how many of their peers
actually do have an std and how many
actually do go to planned parenthood
the emotional attachment that the guy is
likely to leave
stuff like that I ean the onllly class I
took related to sex was hmm in like 5th
grade they teach u it then in 7th grade we
had to carry around flour babies for like
3 days health question help it was a sack
of flour just to show u how heavy a baby
could be and you couldnt put it on the
floor haha they said you had to bring it
with you everywhere for those 3 days so
most ppl just stayed home...
Then in like 10th grade I took health
class and didnt learn anything we just
made poster boards and copied notes off
the board basically saying dont have sex?
Why just cuz hahah or kids would do poster
boards on like marijuana use lame
seriously either enforce it powerfully or
help protect it
seriously I wouldnt be agianst making it
easier access for teens to get
contraceptives I mean like I did a report
on it saying the average teen wont even go
buy condoms for the sure embarassment of
it... I mean seriously... I lost my
viriginity at a young age and I tried my
eyes otu afterwards I wouldnt talk to the
guy for over a week... But I did it
agian? Why I have no doing it clue!
Oh oh oh and parents get involved medical
question! Ahahh I have never ever once
had a sex talk with my parents... I mean
I know not all kids are like this but I
listen to my parents... They tell me to
come home at this time i'm home... Tell
me not to drink I dont drink (never have
dont intend on it!) tell me not to smoke
(i dont smoke never have never tried never
will) I dont do driugs nothign they tell
me I cant drive till i'm 18 I wait till 18
seriously all that stuff I listen I
respect i'm not saying that I dont have a
free will or like I could have chosen not
to have sex on my own becuase I could have
but like I would have sooo appreciated
them talking to me about it. I mean like
I never tried smoking in highschool
because not only did I not want to but I
was so petrified that if I did somehow
someway my mom would find otu and be
sooooo upset and dissapointed in me!
Seriously... I think I would have felt
the same way about sex if she threw the
topic at me...
Okay I could go on for hours i'll hush
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Daile
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 11 Oct 2004 Posts: 319 Location: Missouri
Posted: 10-26-04 00:47am
Well, I don't really think that the fake
babies help at all. I remember having
them back in eighth grade. We had the
ones that cried and everything, and I
loved every minute of it!! I kept mine
for two weeks, it was so much fun! I was
also the only person in the whole grade
that didn't cheat on the assignment. The
babies have these little keys that you
have to use to shut them up, and everyone
else tied the key to the baby's hand, so
that when it started crying they just had
to lift it's arm...Voilah, it stopped!
We also had to do a budget during that
time. We went off of what we could expect
to get from wic, and then what we would
make by ourselves working min. Wage for
like 25 hours a week...It was hard, but I
managed to get a pretty good menu and
everything out of it, so long as I didn't
have to pay any rent...
I don't know, sex ed might be a good idea,
but I know that none of mine made any
impact at all...I think the only thing
that really made me think about it was my
older sister getting pregnant when she was
15...And even that didn't change my mind,
because I still want one...
