Compare And Contrast Chlamydia And West Virginia

Sex is a major part of most people's lives. It is important for us to teach teens how to approach this topic in the proper manner. Children are taught using either the abstinence or preventative method. It is undetermined which one is better, but in this paper there will be a comparison between two states, one who teaches a preventative method, California, and one who teaches with the abstinence only method, West Virginia. STDs are an important topic. First, though, what is a STD?

STDs, or Sexually Transmitted Diseases, are placed in two categories, Bacterial and Viral. Syphilis, Chlamydia, Gonorrhea are bacterial, which are often curable through antibiotics. Human papilloma virus(HPV), Human Immunodeficiency Virus(HIV), Herpes, and Hepatitis

West Virginia has only declined 17% in teenage pregnancy rate since 1988(West Virginia's Youth). The cost for child bearing in 2008 was a staggering $67.3 million from such a low population state. A large portion of that was federal money but 54% was state or local tax money. From 1991 to 2008 there were 55,964 teenage births in West Virginia which adds up to $1.5 billion(Teen Pregnancy). These statistics are more comparable when taking into account the population of each state. For instance California in 2014 had 38.8 million people while in the same year West Virginia only had 1.8 million(Data

It is colloquially understood that the poorer someone is the more likely they are to commit crimes, the same is true about underage sex, the further down on the financial ladder someone is the more likely that individual is to have sex before the age of 18. Teenage pregnancy rate show that race also plays a significant part, as well as, geographic location. For example, Hispanic girls are the main source of teenage pregnancy in California while they account for virtual none of West Virginia's teenage pregnancies. In West Virginia however, the majority of teenage pregnancy come from White teenagers

The costs are also disproportionately in favor of California when you consider the current financial state of both states. California is home to several Fortune 500 companies and a booming technological business while West Virginia is suffering great losses from a dying coal industry and lack of infrastructure to bring in new jobs. The large sum of $956 million spent in California is an affordable expense for the booming state while the, in comparison, poultry amount of $1.8 million is a crippling blow to West Virginia's