TEEN PREGNANCY: How can it BE STOPPED? - Page 4

Originally posted by: charminggenie

@blue98 

In  no way I mean the abstinence alone is the way to go. But yes Mr K did brought in a good point that should these young kids be not first prohibited from participating in sexual activities.  As part of the holistic sex education to the teens , it is vital to include abstinence as well . Contraception and other means are much important but they talk about preventive measures only and not about increasingly decreasing age for sexual activities. Mere contraception also would not stop the emotional and biological stress  . 

Say if the teen takes it to alcohol  at a young age when he is not able to control it, at that point you do try to switch him off the bottle .

 Similarly we do need to strictly teach the kids about the legal age and its significance in terms of life choices, biology and otherwise.

The point is to provide them realistic sexual education where every aspect of it is covered . The underlining factor should be to prevent students from indulging in it before the legal age. Stick or warning might push them off for rebellion but clever innovative ways might get them to see the light- that is the challenge before us. 

@on fear- it was in response to Mr. K' comment. More of a joke . But teaching them about STDs would scare anyone , let alone teens. Still essential for their education. 

Originally posted by: charminggenie

 

In  no way I mean the abstinence alone is the way to go. But yes Mr K did brought in a good point that should these young kids be not first prohibited from participating in sexual activities.  As part of the holistic sex education to the teens , it is vital to include abstinence as well .

Originally posted by: K.Universe.

Cowardly? Hardly! It may sound unconventional to some but that is precisely the point of an out-of-the-box solution. Creative thinking is meant to be unconventional. Even a dunce can come up with condoms, sponges, birth-control pills etc. as "solutions" to pregnancy. Those are least creative. 

Creative? Hardly!... if a so-called "creative out of the box solutions" is based upon denial or refusal of a very simple known fact- " teens are teens regardless of whether they are over-burdened or under-burdened", then it can hardly be termed as "creative"...a "dunce" who comes up known "solutions" to tackle a problem at hand is much smarter than a "genius" who bases his "solutions" on refusal & denial of the issue in hand...

The teens are finding time for "extracurricular" activities, like engaging in sex, that are not productive for their age. I suggested taking that time away by increasing the work load. In hindsight, I should have added sports too. I am not sure why a little extra work sounds so daunting to you.

I see no reason for increasing the academic burden on already over-burdened teens, becoz a teen who finds time to engage in "extra-curricular" activity in the(already over-burdened) current education system, is most likely to find time even in the modified education system...the teen in question will simply ignore the demands of the modified system as he did with the former education system, the problem being, he is struggling with his desires & coping with the pressures of his changing body & mindset- NOW THAT is the problem we are dealing with , to which a proper guidance in the form of sex education is the only appropriate solution..running away from the problem or deviating or tricking the teens with extra work is hardly a solution..besides, increasing the work load will only give rise to other problems as the current work load is difficult enough , if u still have a problem understanding what i mean by the 'already over burdened teens' i recommend u watch "Taare Zameen Par"... especially, for the middle class , it holds true..teens are burdened by their parents expectations to becum a docter/engineer with little regard to the child's own capability...so the question of burdening the already over-burdened high school teens is out of question...comparatively, college studies r much easier wherein one opts for his/her own field of intrest & focuses on becoming an expert in the chosen field..but high school is where every tom, dick & harry is burdened with all of the academic subjects..few schools offer a choice between science & commerce starting from 11th grade but parents insist upon taking science owing to their expectations..  

These are crucial years for learning and as I already said sex education is but a part of the overall education. If I am not mistaken, anatomy, reproduction and other "rocket science" topics are covered in 8th grade biology. You don't need more sex education than that. That should suffice. But even after learning about reproduction, if they want to experiment, then it would mean we are not dealing with smart kids. Which is why I suggested keeping them occupied with studies. 

Yes these are indeed the crucial years of learning, but what you failed to acknowledge is that these are also the crucial years of changing anatomy which happens at different times for different individuals giving rise to utter confusion , guilty feelings & other psychological issues which needs to be properly addressed through an appropriate sex education..for which an 8th grade biology topics related to sex,anatomy & reproduction is just not enough..that wont suffice to deal with the problems faced by teens... 

Sex education is not what is going to land a teen a job later on. Real education is what they want. 

But of course sex education wont directly help a teen to get a job later on but it will help them keep sane & safer in effect enabling the teen to tackle his problems in a way that it wont b a problem later on which i believe is the issue we are dealing with.. 

And, yes REAL education what everybody wants...but the definition of REAL education as is apparent & evident , is very subjective...😊