I wasn’t sure what to do my blog about so I decided to try to find something that was revelent and personal… what could be more personal then Missouri itself. Teen pregnancy has become a trend/common occurrence all over America but do girls or even guys really know what they are doing? Do they really understand that their actions have results? How would they know if no one told them.
I agree with this conclusion of the article. I believe that teens and pre teens are not educated enough on sexual activities and what could result from them. I went to a school where we were not given a “sex ed” class. Everything I learned was from when my parents talked to me. I think it is important to educated girls about sex and the possible outcome from sex if they are not careful. I don’t think girls really know how it will change the rest of their lives.
-Brittany White
I agree that if teens were better educated that possibly the statistics wouldnt be so high with pregnancies. I feel like at that age most people are wanting attention, and getting pregnant is a good way to get attention. I feel like they dont realize that you could get attention in a more positive way, such as excelling in school or sports that could lead you to a future where you wouldnt be taking the risk in struggling financially and emotionally, along with everything else teenage pregnancy can lead to.
ReplyDelete- Shelby Monroe
Most teenagers are naive about the aftermath of teenage pregnancy. Hollywood movies like Knocked Up and such create a bad example. They think that everything will be fine at the end and everybody will live happily ever after. But in most cases its not true.
ReplyDeleteTalking about “sex-ed” classes in school, from my perspective the impact of the class is different for every teenagers. When I took sex-ed class in my high school, they talk about abstinence and all kinds of stuff that keeps the teenage girls away from pregnancy and away from STDs. But never even once they talk about what the teenage girls feel during and after pregnancy and the guys role in it such as their decision to keep the baby or having abortion, their financial situation afterwards etc. I feel like the questions that I am asking now are kind of the questions I never thought of when I was a teenager. May be its because of my family background or where I am from. I am from India and I lived there pretty much my whole life. Over there, being pregnant at 16 or even before marriage its like a taboo.
Also, the questions that raises in my mind when talking about teenage pregnancy is: why we always focus on the girls? What forces made us think that it always is girls' fault without even looking at the facts?
-Disha Jetani.
I agree that sexual education should be a priority, both in public and private schools. When a school's sexual education class is inadequate, whether it's because of budget concerns or otherwise, it's far more detrimental to a student's health than the administrators might imagine. For example, a private religious school's sexual education class may only go into abstinence and the negative side of sexuality, leaving students with a radically incomplete picture of things. They are left to their own devices to learn about issues not covered in their classes, or glossed over in favor of taking the moral high road.
ReplyDeleteAs Disha writes, Hollywood's picture of pregnancy is often inaccurate and stereotypical. Films such as Juno and Knocked Up, while considered "edgy" in some circles for its depiction of teenage pregnancy, neglect to depict many of the demands and challenges a teen mother will face. A high-school sexual education class offers the best opportunity for a teacher to help the students recognize the picture of teen pregnancy presented in Hollywood and popular culture is only partially correct, and that they must complete their "pictures" of sexuality and teen pregnancy with statistics and factual data, such as those found in this study.
- Greg W.