First off, let me just say, that getting pregnant in high school just isn't a good idea. Probably most people agree on that. Clear enough, a accidental baby is the worst thing that can happen, but what if a girl really wanted a child of her own? The common result in giving birth at a young a...

Do you like the thought of telling your parents that you are pregnant or have contracted HIV? I didn't think so, but did you know that condoms are a way of preventing those issues if you are sexually active? In a society, that promotes sex, through the use of music videos, internet, television ...

Officials that distribute condoms on school campuses have often been accused of immorality. As stated in the article, Condoms in Schools, "courts have tended to defer to school boards decisions and allow condom distribution programs to stand, but legislators have tended to re...

Condom distribution in Public Schools During our panel discussion on should condoms be distributed in public schools, I took the position of supporting the distribution. It is not that I agree with young teenagers having sex but the statistics show that 70 percent of all students are having sex...

SEX EDUCATION IN MIDDLE SCHOOLSex education has been one of the primary sources of controversy in the public schools. Especially now when teen pregnancy rates are high and HIV/AIDS is having a devastating impact on young people.As a concern parent along with other community residents agree that sex...

Hi! My name is Karina Rosales I am 22 years old and I am a teen parent. I was 13 years old when I found out I was pregnant. At first I was in denial until a pregnancy test confirmed it. I could not believe what that pregnancy test said because I never planned to be pregnant or had even thought of. ...

Teen PregnancyDo you enjoy sex? Are you ready to take a chance when you are only a teenager? Are you ready to be a parent? I didn't think so. Most of us are still in high school and enjoying our social lives. Can you believe that only 1/3 of teenage mothers receive their high school diplomas. N...

Too many children these days are becoming sexxually active at a very young age. It seems like schools are relying on parents to teach it to the kids. Parents are relying on the schools to teach it. There has to be a happy medium somewhere. With society becoming what it is today. Some children a...

The Road of Teenage PregnancyAs a senior in high school, I had to make a very important decision. Did I want to have a baby and finish school, or did I want to get married and quit school. Although abortion and adoption were the right choice for some people, I knew they were not the right choice f...

Teens Can Make The Choice! Teenagers who get pregnant unintentionally have the choice of keeping their baby or having an abortion. Some choose to keep the child if they are able to support it, but some do not realize that they are not able to give all the support that they need....

As the school bus rumbled past me, an angry high school student yelled obscenities at me from his open window. I was standing in front of a high school at 7 a.m. with an active pro-life family, holding posters showing aborted fetuses and signs saying, "Abortion Kills Children." The family ...

Should Condoms be distributed in High Schools? "More than half of American teenagers have had sexual intercourse and face significant health risks. Each year, over one million teenagers become pregnant, one in seven teenagers contract and STD, and one in five hundred students in college ca...

Many teenagers now are very sexually active and take the risk that comes with sexual intercourse. There are many consequences that come with having sex. First of all, it can cause pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases and emotional consequences too. (Edelson 50) That is why birth control is an im...

A basic high school diploma can only get one so far. Job titles such as a cashier, retail salesman, and others within that description only allow a person to reach a minimum amount of success. A college education is crucial in today\'s society for anyone choosing to improve their lives and live at a...

"More than half of American teenagers have had sexual intercourse and face significant sexual health risks. Each year, over one million teenagers become pregnant, one in seven teenagers contract an STD, and one in five hundred students are infected with HIV." A large amount of high school students t...

Odds of Teen Pregnancy Teenage pregnancy is a humongous ghost in American society. In spite of the orientation and counseling provided to adolescents, they keep having unsafe sex and getting involved in irresponsible intimate relations. Obviously, classmates and friends' insistence pl...

A high school senior 17 years old Jeff Browning is a successful student at Hamilton High until he found out that his girlfriend Christina Calderon was pregnant and he was very upset because he knew if he became a parent at his age it would ruin his dream of getting a debate scholarship and going to ...

One in four Americans are infected with an STD. 57% of teenagers will lose they're virginity in High School. 79% lost they're virginity by the end of college. 16.9 is the average age for sex. 33% of high school students had sex once a month to twice a week and 52% of college students have...

When you go to the dentist to get a cavity filled, the dentist will usually use an amalgam filling. The reason most dentists use this and do not give you an option is because they are very much cheaper than your other choices. Theses amalgam fillings may be cheaper but they can really cause you some...

Teenage pregnancy is a big problem now, these days. The big question is though, abortion or parenting? Once a teen is diagnosed pregnant she has the huge decision to make whether she should keep the child and go on being a mother, or have an abortion and not deal with the problem at all. The o...

There are many health issues facing women today. That one that always comes to mind first and hits hard is breast cancer. Everyday moms, aunts, grandmothers, teachers, doctors, librarians, students, daughter's nieces, etc are diagnosed with a possibly terminal disease and that is breast cancer...

Abortion has been a debatable issue ever since it was introduced in 1803, in the English statutory law. There have been many cases dealing with abortion. And they have argued whether or not it is there right of privacy. When you think of abortion and the cases it has came up in the most definity ...

I would like to be an OB/GYN (Obstetrician/Gynecologist) after graduation. In order to attain my career choice, I will need some mathematics courses. The math courses I will be required to take are Mathematics 160 (College Algebra), which will cover topics such as geometry, quadratics, exponentia...

Finding out about an unplanned pregnancy can be scary. Having an unwanted pregnancy can lead women to struggle to decide between adoption and abortion. Knowing she will be losing her child, the pregnant woman faces a tough decision. Most of the time adoption is a better choice than abortion because ...

The play Medea-Redux was disturbing, yet very realistic for a true story. At the beginning of the film I immediately new that this lady was on drugs or was abused in her past. She felt like she had a lot of pain in her life. When she told her story about how her 7th grade teacher and her class we...