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Compare And Contrast Chlamydia And West Virginia

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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 …show more content…

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 …show more content…

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

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In a study it was found that “pledgers in that statistical universe had a 51 percent rate of being HPV positive, whereas only 33 percent of non predgers were found to be HPV positive” (UMass Amherst). Pledgers of abstinence almost had twice the rate of non-pledged, people that the other side would think of them being more at risk for an STDs. This high rate shows that stressing so much the importance of abstinence can cause a derail in the information on how to practice safe sex in addition to raising the STD rates. Abstinence failing can also be seen in “Mississippi… state with abstinence-only education mandated in public schools suffers from the highest teenage pregnancy rates in the country” (Helmick). High rates of teen pregnancy should be a red flag that something that schools are teaching is not working for their students.

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Most everyone has an opinion of how human sexuality education should be presented to the children in America’s public schools. Parents, teachers, board of education members, community stakeholders, and politicians all have their own ideas of how to keep teen pregnancy rates down in our country. However, even with so much interest in the sex education debate teen pregnancy rates remain the highest in the United States compared to other leading nations (Kohler, 2008). There are two types of sexual education programs used in our schools: abstinence-only education, and a more comprehensive approach labeled abstinence-plus education.

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