Of that 50, 000 adoptions, one half involved an infant.” (1, Abortion And Teenagers)
The teens know the consequences, and some decide to take on the risks but if we are on the side of the teens, we must inform everyone, even the sexually active, about exactly how to protect themselves from STD’s.
So overall, when trying to educate students, do you move more towards the passive side or active side when using protection? Do you tell the kids to never have sex or do you tell them exactly how to use protection? I believe that teens are very rebellious and saying to never have sex will probably stimulate the thought of having sex. I say lets not teach either side let the process of sex education be more interactive. Use technology to better educate these kids because different things are going on in each of their heads. How does any educator know how to teach each kid about sex? We were are grown up different families and have different moral systems, the system of sex education must be constructed around every one of these teens rather than one system for all teens. Technology has done a lot of damage; it’s about time it gives back to the people.
When thinking about the future of pregnancy, specifically teen pregnancy, I see more advances as far availability of prevention products and better ways of communication and education of sex. As I researched for this paper, I found out more and more solutions that are already in progress and will be more widely used around the nation but we must be aware of is that the rates of pregnancy are very high at places in rural places and those are the places that will not have access to these great advances. I think that the best thing will be to make sure that those places are at the same level that the urban and suburban areas are at before starting to make further advances in the field. Many methods have proven affective such as,
“In the first year that condoms have been distributed on Santa Fe public high school campuses, the number of reported student pregnancies has dropped by two-thirds” (1, Aaron Baca) but we will always be facing counter solutions that will set everything back. The most obvious motive of all that runs this idea is money and it will be a motive for as long as humans want better living ,but the point is that good is always stronger than evil. MTV is a good reflection today’s youth and will be for a quite a while. “MTV, the first 24-hour music network, has been structured around youths ranging from the age of 12 to 34. In fact 28% of their viewership is under the age of 18. You ask why bring MTV into something sexual? Well, the music videos shown tend to center their theme on gender portrayal sand sexual or violent content. Women are portrayed as passive characters and sexual objects. 81% of the videos that contain violence also contain sexual imagery.” (1, Sex in the New Millinium)
Many people are there to just criticize the way of life of these teens and draw conclusion about why or how they are pregnant.