I went when I was really young. I think I mainly visited resorts and amusement parks.
STDs
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Solution from a Teen’s point of view - Stop teaching that abstanence crap. Teach to use a condom.
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To clarify, deterring people from having sex is unrealistic. However, teaching people to wait is realistic. I remember one method that worked especially well, and that was the classic, “if that baby is yours, it’ll cost you $500,000 to raise him/her. Of course, that money is going to come from you since your parents will probably disown you.” Works like a charm every time :smile:
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The problem with the whole safe sex campaign is it hasn’t really worked. More teens get pregnant, and more get STDs since it was started. (And thats even if you adjust for population)
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“The problem with the whole safe sex campaign is it hasn’t really worked. More teens get pregnant, and more get STDs since it was started. (And thats even if you adjust for population).”
False. Teen birth rates have declined for the tenth straight year since 2001 and are now at record low levels, according to data released today by the federal government.
“When it comes to teen sex, pregnancy, and births, 1991-2001 is now firmly on record as the decade of substantial progress,” says Sarah Brown, Director of the private, nonprofit, National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy. " It is clear that more teens are adopting the formula for success — more are refraining from sex and those that are sexually active are using contraception more carefully. However, pregnancy rates are still higher than most developed countries in the world, and we must fight to continue that percentage."
In a related study in Trends in Pregnancy Rates for the United States, 1976-97, America’s teenagers were less likely to become pregnant in 1997 than at any time since 1976, when national data on pregnancy rates first became available, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which updates trends in pregnancy and births in the United States. The teen pregnancy rate fell 19 percent from its all-time high in 1991 to reach a record low of 94.3 pregnancies per 1,000 women aged 15-19 years in 1997.
The teen pregnancy rate had risen from the mid-1980’s and reached a peak in 1991; the 1997 rate is actually 10 percent lower than the 1986 rate when the upturn began.
Teenage pregnancy rates declined for all teenagers with the steepest declines among non-Hispanic black (down 23 percent) and white (down 26 percent) teenagers. The overall decline is attributable to both reduced rates of live births (down 13 percent) and abortions (down 32 percent). Teen birth rates are available through 1999 and show a continued decline, totaling 20 percent since 1991.Among the factors believed to be driving this downturn in teen pregnancies are increases in condom use, the adoption of the effective injectable and implant contraceptives, and the leveling off of teen sexual activity.
The STD rate also decreased during periods of Safe-Sex Education. In Canada, STD rates rised with the Decline of Safe Sex Campaigns. For example, among teenage girls, the chlamydia rate is 1,200 per 100,000, and the rate is 212 per 100,000 for teenage boys, or six times the rate among the general population, the Globe and Mail reports. Among the “post-AIDS explosion generation,” the rate of gonorrhea is about three times that of the general population, with a rate of 95 per 100,000 for teenage girls and 40 per 100,000 for teenage boys. Syphilis infections have also increased, with 176 cases reported in 2000 compared to 116 in 1997. The study said that the figures are in “stark contrast” to drops in STD infection rates seen during the 1990s cited to safer-sex education campaigns. David Patrick, director of epidemiology at the British Columbia Center for Disease Control and the study’s lead author, said, “Throughout the '90s we observed better controls, but in recent years we’re seeing the numbers bounce back across the spectrum.” The Globe and Mail reports that the “majority” of Canada’s provinces do not fund sexual health campaigns and many schools are “cutting back” their sex education programs.
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That is the problem with studies my man. I was reading an article in a health magazine. It was about milk. The article referenced several different studies which contradicted each other. Some studies said that milk strengthened bones. One study said that it caused cancer. Another said that it caused other serious health problems.
I’ll hear a study on the TV which says that teen smoking is on the rise, while another study I read in an informational packet at school says that it is declining.
Thats only a couple of examples. You can understand why I am weary of studies. I don’t exactly throw myself at the feet of a single study.
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I think you would be hard pressed to find a study showing Pregnancy on the rise since 1991 standard.
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@TG:
I think you would be hard pressed to find a study showing Pregnancy on the rise since 1991 standard.
i think it would depend on the community you’re looking at. Internationally you may have a point given the UN’s push to adjust the rate of pregnancy in developing nations. A little closer to home (i.e. in Canada’s first nations - esp in Saskatchewan (really, that’s the name of a province :-? )) the numbers may be different, and not necessarily in a good way.
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I’m being regional with America. With the rest of the world, who knows? Also concerning Canada, STD and abortion rates were lower during the Safe Sex Program, but has risen since after the campaign stopped (though unsure exactly how much with abortion) due to expenses. So this could be a major factor in these shift in numbers.
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if god wanted anything, he wants us to have sex…why was man given a sex drive? religion tries to make it something inhuman and animal, but in reality that is all we are.
tell people the consequences…if they are dumb are unlucky enough to get infected, what are you going to do? preaching chasity definantly doesn’t work.
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If God is responsible for our “sex drive,” then Religion sure has hell to pay once the world becomes overpopulated! :wink: (as if it isn’t already…)
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Well that’s why God gave us contraceptives 8)
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and STD’s . . .
whoops . . . maybe i shouldn’t have said THAT. . . .
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that’s why God isn’t always the answer!
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