Since I already tackled the controversy of birth control I thought I might as well talk about teen pregnancy which just goes hand in hand with birth control. I think personally children should be educated better in school about sex at a younger age. At my old school we never had a health class on it not even anything close because people are so worried that they are exposing their kids to things to young but they can’t stop it.
Between the media, friends, and just things I saw going on around me as a child I knew some things without health class it just took me until high school health class to learn how much of it I actually had wrong. Whether or not you try to protect your “fragile” kids though it just goes to show that you cannot the only thing you can do is help them to become well informed instead of being informed with the wrong information.
More or less I think this is the reason for a lot of teen pregnancy. This and the fact that I do not believe that the church even stresses as much as it use to that sex outside of marriage is wrong. I might not agree with the churches view on that but I do think that at the very least the church should encourage its young people to wait until they are stable enough to handle a child and hopefully in a good relationship instead of doing nothing.
Children need to be informed of their options they should talk about abstinence and often it would greatly decrease the rate of uninformed teen mothers that wish they would have known before it was too late that yes vagina sex is not the only way to get pregnant. Or that you should definitely not have sex when you are ovulating and what ovulating is exactly as well.
Children need a chance to figure out what myths are true and which are not don’t you think? Kids believe whatever their friends tell them so they need to know the truth before they make an uninformed mistake. Tell me your opinions. Do you think this is a good solution? Do you have any of your own? Do you have any problems with my solution because I know that it may not be the best one out there so voice your opinions?
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My only question is what other kind of sex besides "vagina sex" can you get pregnant with? As far as the rest, I think that it is more of the parents responsibility to inform their children about the good and bad things involved with sex. I don't think it should be the schools or the churches job to teach about it. I think it is an awesome idea that school facilitates the learning process regarding sex, but they are still usually biased on what they teach by what is accepted in the community, the local churches and by the instructor.
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Respectfully,
Adam
I think that students have the right to a comprehensive sex education that their parents cannot/ will not provide. It's a matter of health, and it's a matter of knowledge. And it is possible to become pregnant from anal sex, although far less likely.
I don't know where you receive your information from, but being a nurse myself, I am quite certain you can not get pregnant by having anal sex. The only possibility there is if semen drips into the vagina, and even then it's super rare. Below is an answer from the experts at teenwire.com.
"It is not possible to become pregnant from anal sex (inserting the penis into the anus). But remember that pregnancy can occur when ejaculate or pre-ejaculate gets in the vagina or on the vulva."
http://www.teenwire.com/ask/2000/as-20001122p119.php
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Respectfully,
Adam
Although it does not happen often it is possible to get pregnant though for lack of a better term swallowing.
Think globally act locally.
Always listening.
And again.... not possible. I won't go into details, but basically anything you swallow will go into your stomach and then be destroyed by the Hydrochloric Acid in your stomach. On top of that, sperm survive only at certain temperatures and in certain body fluids. Either way, again, IT IS NOT POSSIBLE. Below is another answer by the experts at teenwire.com
"No, it's not possible to become pregnant from oral sex — stimulating a partner's sex organs with one's mouth — whether ejaculate is swallowed or not. Pregnancy can happen when ejaculate or pre-ejaculate gets in the vagina or on the vulva."
http://www.teenwire.com/ask/2001/as-20010918p281.php
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Respectfully,
Adam
I agree with you - and I especially think that parents should be more open about sex with their kids. It shouldn't be only up to the schools - they can do nothing if the right message isn't coming to kids from home. Not talking about sex doesn't mean it doesn't happen, and I think that too many families take this route, making it extremely difficult for teens to go to their parents/doctors for birth control if they do choose to be sexually active.
I actually wrote an opinion piece about this topic in October in reaction to the Portland Maine middle school birth control story.... you might find it interesting -- read it here: http://media.www.diamondbackonline.com/media/storage/paper873/news/2007/...
~A-squared
http://www.progressiveu.org/blog/redwhitebluegreen
Being currently pregnant, I can't say that the majority of teen pregnancies happen because of a lack of effective communication or ignorance. While both arguments are contributing factors to some pregnancies, the majority are simply a lack of responsibility and/or an assumption that things are going to be "easy". I've seen it happen once, twice, and enough times to give up counting. Don't we all have those countless friends that month after month they come panicking about whether or not they could be pregnant? I sure have had a significant dose of those. We think they'd learn, however. They know the type of protection they can use, they know when they're ovulating, they even are well aware of a little thing called the internet, just in case they're too embarassed of talking to a school counselor about it, yet they keep on getting themselves into the same predicament every time. People don't learn, it's a known fact.
Personally, I started knowing about sex around the same time I was feeling the adrenaline rush of finally going into junior high. If you're in a public school, they teach you early, if you're in a Catholic school you probably won't get to it until your high school years. And, even then, they won't go into much detail about condoms, birth control methods, your period, etc. However, you can't exactly blame the schools for teen pregnancies because we all have the capacity to learn about things through other means, and, God knows we do. We're bombarded with it every day, through the media, through our peers, and even through our family. In order to know about these things more in debt we could simply talk to the school counselor or search the new-school method...through goodle. However, the majority either choose to have sexual relations blindly, or they refuse to take precautions, mostly because this generation of teenagers today tend to be more impulsive than ever.
Getting down to business ... I didn't plan on getting pregnant at this age, specially because it's such a stereotype being Mexican. But, we're not all perfect, and, inevitably some things are just meant to happen. What helps me out, however, is the fact that I'm still in school, still striving to do my best (those straight As don't come willingly), on my way to college, and with God's will me and her dad will be able to give our daughter some good advice about this situation. She can take it or leave it, we all know everyone has got a mind of their own, but at least I'll be satisfied with the type of life that we can offer her and the fact that I didn't conform to being pregnant high school drop out. It's a tough job ladies and gentlemen and money isn't the only obstacle when we live in a world where teenagers think their world is coming to and end when they find out they're pregnant... trust me there's worse things.