Re: 1 in 4 girls -- Adolescent Psychology Applied to Education

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Subject: Re: 1 in 4 girls

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Kendall

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Date Posted: 21:46:29 03/16/08 Sun
In reply to: Danielle Murphy 's message, "1 in 4 girls" on 15:06:26 03/16/08 Sun

I too was shocked by the statistics. It is particularly scary for me having a young daughter and wondering what it is going to be like by the time she reaches adolescence if this trend continues upward. I kind of mentioned this in class but don't know how well I communicated it. I absolutely agree that more education and communication is a good thing and have no problem with teaching students about protection. But I still believe that if all we do is teach them how to have "safe sex" we are only treating one part of the problem. I think the fact that their is a trend of more and more adolescents having sex at increasingly younger ages in itself is a problem and I am not comfortable with merely admitting that that is the way it is and just giving them a condom. I believe that while we are tyring to reverse this trend of stds we should also be trying to reverse this trend of more and more sexually active children at increasingly younger ages. I do not believe that teenagers, particularly young teens are ready to handle sex and all of the responsibility that comes with it. I think Carmen's son sounds very wise in his understanding that he is not emotionally ready for sex. Even when we protect our children from STDs and pregnancy, we need to try and protect them from all of the other problems that arise from having sex at to early of an age. How exactly we reverse this trend, I don't know but it should be part of the conversation IMO.

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