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Teenage Pregnancy - Online Term Paper

Teenage Pregnancy

Over the past few years rates have grown substantially. More than one million teenagers will become pregnant this year in Canada, and the number is growing. Many socioeconomic factors influence pregnancy rates, such as; different races,
different religions, financial status, education and family background. Another influence is the sexual education children are receiving or not receiving at school and at home. While
the problem of is acknowledged, solutions are coming slowly.
Some parents feel that pregnancy is a result of the lack of sex education courses taught in schools, while others feel that these courses end up encouraging teenagers to become sexually active. Studies have ...

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courses also have no noticeable effect on contraceptive use and pregnancy rates among teenagers. It was found that while students do learn about sex and contraception, they do not appear to alter their behavior.” (Okie, 1996)
The courses that are offered in schools have proven not to have any influence on the rates. The reason for this may be that the courses are just not being taught effectively or are targeting the wrong age group:

‘Two major goals of the school sex education programs are to reduce the incidence of unwarranted pregnancy as well as the rates of AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases. However, to be effective, programs must begin early. If we wait until an age when most adolescents are sexually active, we might have to combat an acquired behavioral pattern of ineffective STD/pregnancy prevention behavior. Some statistics found that in the 1984 survey of school
superintendents found that children do not all seem to know what we expect ...

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Added: 1/10/2008 09:51:42 PM
Category: Miscellaneous
Type: Premium Paper
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