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04/13/17 Grammarly.com or paper rater,com Adolescence, parents and the consent of contraceptives
The biggest reason why parents band sex is because of teen pregnancy. You can not blame them for worrying about teen pregnancy, considering now, 615,000 teens each year get pregnant. Although most parents frown upon their children having sex, safe sex is still important, which is why condoms and birth control should not be permitted by the parents. For centuries now, most parents have made a point that sex is forbidden
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In some situations, the parents of the teen mother end up parenting the newborn to allow the teen parents to continue on being teens. Some people think that cutting off access to parent free contraceptives will lower teen pregnancy and stop pre-married sex. However, they are wrong and studies have proven that. Studies shown that one of the major causes of delay by adolescents in seeking contraceptives is the fear of parental discovery and that many teens would avoid seeking services altogether if parental involvement were required. In one research, 47% of sexually active teen girls said that they would stop accessing reproductive health care services from the health clinic if they couldn't get contraceptives without telling their parents first, proving that having to have parental permission will only drive them away from the health clinics. This also means that there will be a 47% increase of teen pregnancy risk, since they won't seek contraceptives. A sexually active teen that doesn't use contraception has a 90% chance of getting pregnant or getting a sexually transmitted disease. Mandating parental involvement is most likely to discourage many teens from seeking family planning services, placing them at a higher risk for sexually transmitted diseases and unwanted pregnancies In some cities, the high schools provide free condoms in the offices. In studies, it has shown that this lowers the teen pregnancy in those participating cities. People argue that contraceptives should be consented by the parents because they need to be aware of the health risk that taking the pill can give you, but the risk of getting pregnant are way higher than the risk you take while you are on the pill. Do the math, if they enforce parental permission, it's almost a guarantee that teen pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases will sky rocket, doing the