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unsel pregnant women and men on how to deal with the birth of the child. Adoption is a good option, as well as keeping the child, considering living standards are comfortable. However, the best way to prevent abortion is to abstain from sex in a relationship where a baby is not desired; largely, marriage.2.The basic organizer of sex-role attitudes a person meets in adolescence is the self-categorization as a boy or a girl. The child who recognizes that he is a male begins to value maleness and to act consistently with gender expectations. He begins to structure his own experiences according to his accepted gender and to act out appropriate sex roles. He reflects sex-role differences and he fantasizes himself as a daddy with a wife and children. The same holds true for the girl, who pretends she is a grown-up woman with a husband and children. Sex differentiation takes place gradually as children learn to be male and female according to culturally established sex-role expectations and their interpretations of them.3.As they become oriented to the adult world, adolescents’ powers of reflective thinking enable them to evaluate what they learn. They become more capable of moral reasoning. Furthermore, their ability to differentiate the possible from the real enables them to distinguish not only what the adult world is but also what it might be like, especially under ideal circumstances. They compare the possible with the actual, and become critical observers of things as they are and ultra critical of adults. Therefore, 18 year-olds being at the peak of adolescence, have been very well oriented to the adult world. They are very capable of seeing the qualities of different men and women running for political office and pick out the one they see best fits their ideal circumstances. However, at the same time that adolescents become political idealists, they also become champions of the underdog. It is adolescents’ ow...

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