Teen Sex

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Many parents are not doing their part in educating their children about safe sex because they are embarrassed or they just do not want to come to terms that their children are growing up. If the parents were doing their job then “more than half the teenagers in the United States” would not be having unprotected sexual activities. Having unprotected sexual activities has a lot of risk and many teenagers are not aware of these risks due to lack of availability to condoms. Therefore, condoms should be made available to high school students by means of vending machines or school nurses, because it will lower the risk of teenagers getting pregnant, a sexually transmitted disease, and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS).
A school in St. Paul opened a health clinic, which gives routine checkups and make condoms available along with education on how to use them. After doing so, the pregnancy rate dropped by “50 percent” (Bender). According to Brophy, “teen mothers cost the United States more than 34 billion dollars a year.” Siecus pointed out that in “September 1997” a study showed that making condoms available increased the use of condoms by teenagers that were already sexually active. If the United States can spend this much money on teen mothers then they have the money to better educate them. This will create an abundance of savings on tax money spent each year.
A study showed that there are “more then 85,000” cases of AIDS reported among people between the ages of “25 to 29”. These people had to have contracted this disease in their teenage years because AIDS has about a “10 years” incubation period (Weiss). AIDS has been stereotyped as a gay disease. It is not a gay disease because both men and women get this disease. In Columbia County alone there has been “116 cases” of AIDS reported “since 1983” and “60 percent” of them were men. “32 new cases” has been reported “since 1997” a...