Stats: Why i out of 4 teens have an STD, are we educating our youth?!
Question: It isn't the lack of information because the resources are there. It is the thought of being immortal and believing that things will not happen to them.
Many people who learn that they are HIV positive in their 20's contracted the virus in their teens. Additionally, STD's are also being contracted due to other activities people are engaging in - in order to prevent pregnancy or keep their Hymen in tack. This means oral or anal - The body parts which are being used are not immune to contracting HIV/STD's; there is Herpes simplex 1 which is from the waist up - including oral herpes, gonorrhea in the throat and more. The point is dangers are there, information is there, but teens don't feel that this information is pertinent or inclusive of their age frame as they are in the experimental years and need to explore themselves and others and don't care what and how the information is administered.
I have also meet teens who are no longer afraid of contracting HIV as they know people who are positive and know that people can live with a positive diagnosis.
Answers: It isn't the lack of information because the resources are there. It is the thought of being immortal and believing that things will not happen to them.
Many people who learn that they are HIV positive in their 20's contracted the virus in their teens. Additionally, STD's are also being contracted due to other activities people are engaging in - in order to prevent pregnancy or keep their Hymen in tack. This means oral or anal - The body parts which are being used are not immune to contracting HIV/STD's; there is Herpes simplex 1 which is from the waist up - including oral herpes, gonorrhea in the throat and more. The point is dangers are there, information is there, but teens don't feel that this information is pertinent or inclusive of their age frame as they are in the experimental years and need to explore themselves and others and don't care what and how the information is administered.
I have also meet teens who are no longer afraid of contracting HIV as they know people who are positive and know that people can live with a positive diagnosis.
No we are not educating our youth. You can see this by this yahoo answer website. But its not just lack of education, it is lack of experience. They need to be taken and shown the real effects of Std and pregnacy. Take them to an aids hospice, let them spend a week with a teen mother or single mother who is working to make a life for her kids. Have them see the real life consequences of their actions. But also, our teens need more discipline, they need to know that is they screw around that the parents will be right on their butt. Parents need to be parents, not friends.
We aren't educating our youth. Most schools have jerked sex ed out of the curriculum, and parents are too embarrassed to talk about it. Nothing to be embarrassed about, tell your kid to wrap it up! Then we wouldn't have this problem!
The simple anwser to this is that our kids are subjected to peer pressure everyday and this undoes the education that we give them. At the end of the day we were all kids once and we know what happens. We need to back up the education and openly provide these kids with condoms to both stop STDs and unwanted pregnancies. Make it second nature to them!
Many kids who have behaviour problems have a totally different attitude than the ones who don't. I teach sex ed and find that youth who have behaviour problems just don't want to hear the information and they honestly don't think that the information applies to them.
You have to learn most of this at home, and I'm not really sure if it's the not teaching them that is causing the problem or them not listening. I know my mom told me lots of things and most times, I thought I knew better, thought she was making a big deal out of nothing or thought it will never happen to me. And that's what these kids are thinking, it will never happen to them. They need to hear stories from their peers, who thought the same thing, but are now suffering from std's or AIDS
we do educate our youth but it their choice to put the knowledge to good use or not, believe it or not, some teens either dont care or think it wont happen to them. some teens dont believe us and think we are using this as a scare tactic to stop them from having sex.