The issue of birth control being taught and/or distributed in public schools is one worth debating. In biology and health classes students are educated in reproduction and sexuality, but not about birth control methods such as condoms and birth control pills. While parents may touch briefly on the t...

Benefits of Condom Distribution in Schools With an extremely high percentage of sexually active teens, the United States holds the title of the highest rate of sexually transmitted diseases, pregnancy, and abortion among teens in North America and Europe. Concerned parents, educators, and heal...

Does Sex Education Work? Abstract Regardless of sex education programs in schools adolescents are becoming sexually active at an earlier age, and teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases have become a widespread problem. Some experts question the effectiveness of sexual education while ot...

Professional athletes get an unfair advantage by using steroids. Athletes should be banned from using steroids as a muscle enhancer. There are many effects on a person's well being by using steroids. Sports should be based on talent and skill without any type of medicine to enhance a player&a...

Do you like the thought of telling your parents that you are pregnant or have contracted HIV? I didn't think so, but did you know that condoms are a way of preventing those issues if you are sexually active? In a society, that promotes sex, through the use of music videos, internet, television ...

The carefree years vs. the petty years At one time or another, a movie is made about every generation. Dazed and Confused is for the 1970's group of Americans (during the coming of age) when bellbottoms and marijuana were the fashion, drinking and driving had yet to become unthinkable, an...

One in four Americans are infected with an STD. 57% of teenagers will lose they're virginity in High School. 79% lost they're virginity by the end of college. 16.9 is the average age for sex. 33% of high school students had sex once a month to twice a week and 52% of college students have...

The average teenager is said to talk 16 minutes or less to their parents during the week. These are the same parents who brought them into this world and treated them with the love and gave them the strength to grow day by day. As the teenager grows up to his or her preteen teenage years the teena...

There has been alot of controversy and speculation on whether or not sex education should be taught in high schools. This subject is probably one that will never have a definite answer that everybody agrees on. There is always going to be those with clashing opinions trying to prove one...

In today's society, children's education becomes a very important concern for many parents. After living in this world for more than twenty years, parents know that education has great impacts on the lives of their children in many ways, and the amount of knowledge their children acquire from schoo...

Condom Availability to High School Students In 1991 New York Public Schools started distributing condoms to their high school students. This was the first school system to attempt to do this. Since then many other high schools in twenty-one different states have picked up similar programs, but ...

I began hallucinating early Thursday morning. My team and I were halfway finished with what our instructors dubbed "The Long Paddle," and I could feel my sanity slowly slipping away. A combination of severe sleep deprivation and extreme physical exercise can do that to you. I had not had m...

Students may be allowed to dig up as much information as they'd like for an article, but that doesn't mean that it will be allowed to print it. Schools all over the world are cutting out articles, words, names and just not allowing the paper to be circulated around the school, for the r...