Adolescents and Sex

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or friends to tell them about sex; and some cases parents never discuss it with their children and the friends can give false information. Adolescents may be ashamed of asking an adult. If a parent knows that their child is curious about being sexually active it might cause tension in the home. The parents might try to be more protective and demanding. They might change curfew to and earlier time or try to limit how much their child goes out and who he/she is with. This makes it hard for adolescents to talk to their parents.

Pregnancy

Pregnancy in adolescents now very common. “Every year almost one million teenage girls become pregnant (Brown).” There are junior high children having babies. A few of them have their second child in high school. In some cases, condoms aren’t used at all. Other times they aren’t used right and they slip off or break. It’s raising a baby as an adult, so raising one as a teen is twice as hard. A good percent of the time the teen parents don’t ...

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