Nowadays unintentional pregnancies among the teenage generation has increased an skyrocketed and 20% of female freshmen have dropped out due to pregnancy. http://liberalforum.org/liberalforum/index.php?/topic/23895-why-we-should-dispense-birth-control-in-schools/
Distributing contracteptives in highschools can bring this to a stop. Teenagers are going to do what they want to do regardless so why not cut the pregnancy rate while they are still in school? More will graduate teenagers instead of parents and they will be Std free.
Most teenagers think premarital sex is okay as long as its done within a loving relationship. With that said teenagers start believing they are in love as young as fourteen.
Students are brainwashed by their peers into thinking that sex is love and vice versa, when all in all sex could very well cause an unwanted increase of the human race. Many schools have decided that contraceptives should indeed be passed out in highschools. Not only that but there are parent groups pushing for the distribution of contraceptives to reduce the amount of teenage pregnancies each year.http://www.businessweek.com/debateroom/archives/2009/07/schools_should.html
Though there are plenty supporting the idea there are just as many refusing the idea. Every minute of refusal from parents is another son or daughter closer to having sex and having and unwanted pregnancy. There are 6 million unwanted pregnancies every year in the United States which accounts for eighty-seven percent.Many efforts have been made to educate youth about sexual activity and birth control, but what else can you tell a raging hormone infested hard headed teenager?
Most teenagers think premarital sex is okay as long as its done within a loving relationship. With that said teenagers start believing they are in love as young as fourteen.
Students are brainwashed by their peers into thinking that sex is love and vice versa, when all in all sex could very well cause an unwanted increase of the human race. Many schools have decided that contraceptives should indeed be passed out in highschools. Not only that but there are parent groups pushing for the distribution of contraceptives to reduce the amount of teenage pregnancies each year.http://www.businessweek.com/debateroom/archives/2009/07/schools_should.html
Though there are plenty supporting the idea there are just as many refusing the idea. Every minute of refusal from parents is another son or daughter closer to having sex and having and unwanted pregnancy. There are 6 million unwanted pregnancies every year in the United States which accounts for eighty-seven percent.Many efforts have been made to educate youth about sexual activity and birth control, but what else can you tell a raging hormone infested hard headed teenager?
Children should definitely not be having children.
Safe sex is something every parent wants their child to have and then again there are many parents that don't want their child having sex at all at young ages. I agree with the man Bob in the newscast who is against the movement. He states girls are their own “first line of defense.” Condoms and oral contraceptives are only going to make teenagers believe it is ok to have sex because the school is distributing them which in turn may lead to more pregnancies than without them. With contraceptives options teenagers are going to now engage in risky activity whereas many who previously did not because of the lack of contraception. Whatever happened to sex education? Are they skipping that and now just handing out contraceptives? The blog states, “Teenagers are going to do what they want to do regardless…” If the parents and school officials were there for the students would they really give out contraception? Or would they instead teach about abstinence? In a news article about the same issue http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2007-11-01-birth-control-poll_N.htm a father, Robert Shaw states, "For a school to provide birth control, it's almost like the school saying, 'You should go out and have sex.’” This statement could not be more truthful. Should schools be allowed to take the role of parents without them involved? To many, including Shaw the answer would be no. Sex education would be more efficient in dropping rates of teen related pregnancies than distribution of contraception.
ReplyDeleteAs you have already stated “unintentional pregnancies among the teenage generation [have] increased,” however, handing out contraceptives in high schools will not necessarily “bring this to a stop.” Just because a school makes them available to children doesn’t mean that they will for sure take them. Some girls’ think that getting pregnant will change things for her or will make sure her boyfriend will always love her and never leave her, situations like these cannot be helped with a contraceptive pill or a condom. In most of the schools that distribute various methods of birth control, a parents’ consent is needed and most teens that I know aren’t going to ask their parents consent; they’re going to avoid the topic all together and hope it never gets brought up. Being a teenager I know that there’s that attitude that “it’ll never happen to me,” so some don’t think that they shouldn’t go on any type of birth control.
ReplyDeleteIn an article explaining the various types of birth controls and their differences, it goes into an explanation about how “eight percent of women will experience an accidental pregnancy” in their first year of taking the pill. (http://www.advocatesforyouth.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1278&Itemid=61) So even though a girl is taking doesn’t mean that it’s going to be 100% effective. Contraceptives don’t protect against STDs, so your point being that “more will graduate teenagers instead of parents and they will be STD free,” is invalid. Also, everyone should be aware that a condom is not 100% effective either. They can break or come off during intercourse or simply can just have a small defect. Condoms can help aide in staying STD free but again they are not 100% effective. What other steps could be taken to reduce teen pregnancy? An educational course perhaps?
I some what agree with this. Parents don't want their kids having sex and thats understandable but i feel like so many kids do because their parents are so scared of it that they won't leave their children alone with a boyfriend or girlfriend. They smother them! I have a family member like that who did not want her son and his girlfriend to be alone at all because she was scared of them having sex but her doing that is just pushing him to do it more. And i thnk that schools can pass out contraceptives all they want but it won't make that much of a difference. It is not hard to get a hold of those kinds of things but kids still arn't getting them.
ReplyDeleteNationally, nearly one million young women under age 20 become pregnant each year. That means close to 2800 teens get pregnant each day.( Facts in Brief: Teen Sex and Pregnancy, The Alan Guttmacher Institute, New York, 1996). I disagree with these items being passed out in middle schools. People who disagree with passing out contraceptives usually use the arguement that schools are saying it's ok for them to have sex. To me that is an incorrect statement, the internet is urging kids to have sex, television is showing everything you could imagine. Schools are a place for education and passing out contraceptives is a form of education. The schools are not telling the students to have sex, they are just saying that we cant stop you from doing it but if you are going to do it atleast be safe while doing it.
ReplyDeleteI agree, I think contreceptives should be distributed in high school. This could help so many students and could also save parents alot of time. School is a place to learn no matter what subject. It is always good to learn something new and if contreceptives were to be distributed more teens would be aware of the dangers out there that come along with sex such as STDs, pregnancy etc.
ReplyDeleteOral Contreceptives should not be handed out in school. School is not the place for children to learn about having sex. It should be strictly an academic place and last time i checked sex ed was not one of the classes needed to graduate. If i was handed birth control when I walked into school I would be shocked and offended that my teachers let alone the people students are supposed to look up to and respect would think I would need this. Lots of teenagers don't have sex yes there are large amounts that do, but in highschool I was friends with lots of people who were practicing absitence and I currently work with a girl who wears an abstinence ring. I can't imagine the reactions they would get if handed a contreceptive. If a girl thinks that she needs a form of birth control it should be her own decision not that of the schools. If birth control was handed out in schools it would just be a way of supporting sex before marriage and telling students that its okay to have sex as long as your being safe. Is that really the message schools would want to put out.
ReplyDeleteI agree with the school's actions. Kids are going to have sex, preaching abstinence is just beating a dead horse. The best and most responsible thing high schools can do is prepare students and allow them to fully understand consequences of unprotected sexual activity. This is an important change in the education system. It is also apparent that parents were actually in favor of the program as 90% of parents voted for it at this particular high school.
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ReplyDeleteWhat I was hoping to learn, I learned. I have not heard of this issue until I clicked on your blog.
I believe that high schools SHOULD distribute contraceptives. There are way too many young ladies that are still in high school that are pregnant. If they have their baby during the school year, they miss a good portion of school afterwards. If they have it during the summer, they can learn to see how stressful it is to have to deal with a child AND schoolwork, so there is a huge possibility that they will not be returing to school.
If the contraceptives were given out at school then they could avoid having children, and they can finish school and hopefully go to college. Because let us be honest, if a female high school student's mom asked if she was sexually active, what are the chances of her even telling the truth? That could have been her opportunity to get on some type of birth control there, but since the mother thinks she is not having sex, there is no reason for the extra help right?
Here is a site that I found that talks A LOT about this topic http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/tgr/03/5/gr030505.html. This could possibly help you out on your next post. Some of the things it has on there are the percentage of schools with health centers, what each health center provides, etc. It also explains a little more on why there is even a debate in the first place.
If high schools did pass out contraceptives it would make the students think about their decisions more. Most students don't think about the outcome of having unprotected sex until it is to late. Pregnancy rates at high schools are extremely high, I couldn't imagine where I would be with out my sex ed class in high school. Pregnancy is no joke, it is an outcome that will cost you a life time. Nearly half (46%) of all 15–19-year-olds in the United States have had sex at least once. http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/FB-ATSRH.html You either believe contraceptives should be passed out or you don't. Your strongly for it or strongly against it. But if you really think about it, it could only help for condoms to be passed out. Majority of the students in high schools don't talk about using protection with their friends. I know when I was in high school I would have listened to an adult more than my friends. Safe sex needs to be top priority in America. If you are against contraceptives being passed out ask yourself this question: What if I became pregnant at the age of 15 and the baby daddy left and my parents tell me they are not going to help? Thats the way over 19% of females have to raise their child, all alone. http://www.vision.org/visionmedia/article.aspx?id=15432
ReplyDeleteIt has shown in statistics that young men and woman are having sex as young as fourteen. Well most of the time the pregnancy is due to failure of knowledge about sexual intercourse. It has been said that if a woman is on birth control and the male uses a condom then there is less likely the case of an unwanted pregnancy. It is true. Yes, contraceptives are good and can be passed out in high schools, but it is up to the person themself to use it. Some may and some may not. Sex is a personal choice and so is using the contraceptives to help prevent the unwanted pregnancy that comes along with it. Those who don't know that there are contraceptives out there to help should be informed more than have them passed out on a basis at school. http://www.avert.org/birth-control-contraception.htm
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