Thursday, November 8, 2007
let take a look at one side
In the state of North Carolina, where it is illegal for public school teachers to teach sex education besides abstinence, students are not being equipped with enough information to make responsible sex choices. Almost one half of all pregnancies in the US are unplanned. one third of those pregnancies are unwanted, and a third of the unwanted pregnancies are aborted. therefor one eighteenth of all pregnancies in the united states are aborted. These could be prevented if youth, which would carry on into adulthood, were taught how to prevent pregnancies and equipped with the necessary resources.
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I think you got the math wrong. 1/2*1/3*1/3=1/18 not one twelfth.
Well how can one assume that students aren't being equipped with enough information because apparently not everyone is having sex? Maybe you should refine your paragraph and say, "some students...." Also, when you say one half of all preganancies in the US, were they teenage pregnancies or were they pregnancies among all ages of women, because you said that the unwanted pregnancies could have been prevented if youth...well they couldn't have been prevented if they were done by adults?
bjeezy comments that "...well they couldn't have been prevented if they were done by adults?" I think that this is missing a particular aspect of life.
Biologically, in order to become an adult, one must first pass through a period of youth. Thus, education in youth not only affects current youth but is inclusive of the entire adult population that has formally labeled as a youth as well.
In sociology I am reading a book on women who have children when they are very young...the book looks at the poor population, where a lot of these births happen. In this book a lot of the girls weren't planning on nor did they want children at the time they conceived. However, teaching them how to prevent pregnancy wouldn't help- most of the women in the case study knew where and how to use devices to prevent pregnancy they just didn't use them because of multiple reasons including- their boyfriends wanted a child, they were leaving it up to fate, and the knowledge that being a mother is a high honor which they would strive to attain soon any way. The problem is bigger than not knowing the information.
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