legislators of individual states now have the opportunity to decide which type of sex education (and which funding option) to choose for their state, while pursuing the ultimate goal of reducing teen pregnancy rates
This means some states will have lower quality education, and higher rates of teen pregnancy, leaving them at an immediate disadvantage.
cannot include information about contraception or safer-sex practices
How did they not realize this would be a counter-productive method?
Some argue that sex education that covers safe sexual practices, such as condom use, sends a mixed message to students and promotes sexual activity
This view is extremely outdated, as well as incorrect. In another article I read and annotated, it cited a study that showed those who were taught comprehensive sex education, on average, had sex for the first time at a later age than their abstinence-only education counterparts.
compared to other developed countries
Way higher than any of the other countries listed in this table, despite efforts.
socioeconomic status, teen educational attainment, ethnic composition of the teen population, and availability of Medicaid waivers for family planning services
And it's not just because of differences between these girls in different classes and categories. #rvc190
increasing emphasis on abstinence education is positively correlated with teenage pregnancy and birth rates.
Quite ironic, when you think about it. Isn't it supposed to be doing the opposite? #rvc190
“If the only tool you have is a hammer,” Stamper adds, “the whole world is going to look like a nail to you.”
Strong and effective ending.
They’re still evaluated on standard measures of performance, such as numbers of arrests made and crimes solved. “They don’t get credit for making a citizen happy,”
This could be a major part of the problem. If a cop is evaluated based on how many arrests are made, that automatically creates tension between the people and the police. That's a issue pertaining to the higher powers in police departments, those who make the rules.
parsing
means analyzing, examining[http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/parse]
nonviolent, low-level
If it's a nonviolent crime, the perpetrator doesn't need to be handled forcefully or scared to death in order to be brought in. It's unnecessary.
us versus them
This feeling is reciprocated by the citizens because of this distance between the two,
“This is not what I was looking for when I moved here, that my children would view their local police officer as an M-16-toting, SWAT-apparel-wearing officer.”
I know that I've definitely grown nervous and fearful of police; is this really what we want in authority figures designated to protect us?
obscured the lines between soldier and police officer
I feel like these 2 things are very different, and they shouldn't be blurred together;
Weighing 30 tons and built to withstand land mines, the armored combat vehicle is one of hundreds showing up across the country, in police departments big and small.
Just imagine getting pulled over by this car..
suspicious people
So basically anyone who fits into any minority, or who has a beat-up car.
Conclusion
Comprehensive sex education needs to be a legal requirement for all public schools in the United States One of my main points is planned to be a discussion of why comprehensive sex education is necessary to be fair to the LGBT youth, and this article goes in depth into explaining why and how they are risk, and promotes comprehensive sex ed, as it involves open discussion of LGBT sex education, as well as heterosexual. #rvc190
One teacher’s manual states, “Any same sex ‘sexual experimentation’ can be confusing to young persons and should be strongly discouraged.” In other programs, educators are instructed to call being gay “unnatural” and to tell students that people with HIV or AIDS are “suffering” for the “choice” they made to be gay
Comprehensive sex education needs to be a legal requirement for all public schools in the United States I probably shouldn't be surprised still, but this stuff keeps shocking me.
There are also seven states where positive discussion of being gay is prohibited in schools.
Comprehensive sex education needs to be a legal requirement for all public schools in the United States Sex education should not be a place where students are shamed for their sexual orientation. It should be an outlet where questions are free to be asked and people can learn without hostility. #rvc190
LGBT youth are disproportionally affected by negative sexual-health outcomes
Comprehensive sex education needs to be a legal requirement for all public schools in the United States Relating strongly to the previous study that I was annotating, LGBT youth are more likely to experience the consequences of a lack of comprehensive sex ed. If this portion of youth is at higher risk, then it's even more important that we enforce a comprehensive sex education to help them have safer sex practices and be healthier. #rvc190
If HIV education is taught in Arizona it cannot “promote” a “homosexual lifestyle” or portray homosexuality in a positive manner. Mandated HIV education in Oklahoma teaches that among other behaviors that “homosexual activity” is considered to be “responsible for contact with the AIDS virus.”
Comprehensive sex education needs to be a legal requirement for all public school in the United States Since when is it okay to make a law saying that homosexuality is not to be portrayed in a positive manner? Or to place blame LGBT people for the AIDS virus? #rvc190
TOTAL
Comprehensive sex education needs to be a legal requirement for all public school in the United States This article is loaded with facts to support my argument. It is a scientific study, therefor I know the information I am receiving is accurate and reliable. It's a logos-heavy source, and because of that, it will be extremely useful in the argument I'm trying to make. #rvc190
Arkansas
Comprehensive sex education needs to be a legal requirement for all public school in the United States So Arkansas has no general requirements, but they have specific requirements to stress abstinence. #rvc190
Arkansas
Comprehensive sex education needs to be a legal requirement for all public school in the United States There's no boxes at all checked for Arkanas, leaving me to believe there's little-to-no regulations at all for the state. #rvc190
19states require information on condoms or contraception.39 states require that abstinence be included.
Comprehensive sex education needs to be a legal requirement for all public school in the United States So we only require 19 states to include information on contraception, but 39 states require abstinence to be covered. Why is it that contraceptives are a neglected topic in schools in a country with a massive teen pregnancy rate? #rvc190
4states require only negative information on sexual orientation
Comprehensive sex education needs to be a legal requirement for all public school in the United States How is this legal? There should not be a law requiring that sexual orientation must only be discussed negatively. This has to have a damaging effect on some of these kids. #rvc190
13states require discussion of sexual orientation.
Comprehensive sex education needs to be a legal requirement for all public school in the United States This leaves 37 states not discussing different sexual orientations, thus ostracizing the LGBT community. But wait, it gets better. #rvc190
8states require that the program must provide instruction that is appropriate for a student’s cultural background and not be biased against any race, sex or ethnicity
Comprehensive sex education needs to be a legal requirement for all public school in the United States Basically, in the large majority of our states (all except 8), it is okay for the sex and HIV education presented to be biased against certain groups of people..#rvc190
35 states and the District of Columbia allow parents to remove their children from instruction
Comprehensive sex education needs to be a legal requirement for all public school in the United States If parents can just remove their children from the program, the program is rendered ineffective. This is why it needs to be required. #rvc190
Aubrey Drake Graham
Aka Jimmy Brooks from degrassi
ridiculous
Because "ridiculous" is actually the best way to dance. It's more fun that way
40 percent of the comprehensive programs examined achieved the three important effects of delaying the initiation of sexual intercourse, reducing the number of sexual partners, and increasing condom or contraceptive use
Comprehensive sex education needs be a legal requirement for all public school in the United States Comprehensive sex education had a more substantial effect on the factors than abstinence-only. #rvc190
The study found no evidence that abstinence-only-until-marriage programs increased rates of sexual abstinence.
Comprehensive sex education needs be a legal requirement for all public school in the United States So basically, the main-intended purpose of abstinence-only education wasn't effective at all. If that's the case, then why does it recieve federal funding? #rvc190
excludes LGBT individuals
Comprehensive sex education needs be a legal requirement for all public school in the United States Abstinence-only education guidelines don't cater to the LGBT student community, making them irrelevant for many. #rvc190
science-based and medically accurate.
Comprehensive sex education needs be a legal requirement for all public school in the United States As all sex education should be, for the health of the students. #rvc190
(Abstinence is only effective if used consistently and correctly; “abstinent” teens have a comparatively high STD infection rate)
Comprehensive sex education needs be a legal requirement for all public school in the United States A reason why abstinence-only sex ed. isn't effective for it's supposed purpose. #rvc190
includes teaching not only about abstinence, but also contraception, including emergency contraception; reproductive choice; lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT)
Comprehensive sex education needs be a legal requirement for all public school in the United States Comprehensive sex education covers all topics and quesions students might have about sex, differing sexuality, and contraception, as well as abstinence. It is, as it's name hints, comprehensive and pertains to many different fronts of sex education. #rvc190
under Title V Section 510 of the Social Security Act, the federal government started granting $50 million a year to state governments to dole out to sub-grantees to carry out these programs.
Comprehensive sex education needs be a legal requirement for all public school in the United States The government is financially tied to abstinence-only sex education programs, which is extremely questionable, in my opinion. #rvc190
Streaks of sunshine splashing
Nice alliteration
Surrogacy is an amazing medical advancement that allows those who are unable to reproduce the opportunity to experience parenthood This article is an extremely useful source, as it effectively covers a lot of the questions one might have regarding the process of surrogacy. It describes who the surrogates are, where they come from, what their backgrounds look like, and their general compensations. It also describes the typical profile of the intended-parent. The author focuses in on a well-regulated, experienced surrogacy business and what their standard practices are. This is essential to dispelling negative stereotypes around surrogacy. The author, Leslie Morgan Steiner is a graduate from Hard University. She is widely-published by many different publications, as well as author of The Baby Chase: How Surrogacy is Transforming the American Family, as well as being a mother of 3. She is extremely credible for this topic. Though this source is quite specific, I think it could incorporated into an essay that advocates surrogacy very easily. #rvc190
The majority of intended parents are heterosexual couples. Some are infertile due to biological abnormalities. Others face fertility challenges wrought by hysterectomies, car accidents, paralysis, or other medical problems. More and more are gay male couples (lesbian couples rarely hire surrogates, given the inexpensive, thoroughly-screened sperm on the market and the statistical improbability of two female partners both being infertile). Increasingly, there are more single women and single men who are consciously and openly choosing to become solo parents.
Surrogacy is an amazing medical advancement that allows those who are unable to reproduce the opportunity to experience parenthood. People of all sorts are surrogacy clients, including heterosexual couples, gay male couples, and, as the paragraph emphasizes, even single people who just want to have children. It helps to rule out misconceptions about who would require this service. #rvc190
That they do it for the money. Having a baby for someone else is as far from easy money as you can get.”
Surrogacy is an amazing medical advancement that allows those who are unable to reproduce the opportunity to experience parenthood. This line strikes out at those who believe that surrogate mothers are lazy, greedy women. This is a quote that speaks the TRUTH, that having a baby is in not an easy way to make a living. #rvc190