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sexuality 1. The two most important topics for a junior high sex education curriculum I think would be abstinence and abortion. Teens these days are struggling in a world that tells us sex is necessary for people who are dating. As a result, many teens give in to their desires and the pressures and engage in sexual relationships. This occurs from early to late adolescence and beyond. Supporting teens’ choices, schools teach “safe sex.” In my school a group was brought in to demonstrate for the entire school how to put on a condom, using a microphone. This turned into a joke, no one taking it seriously. Even so, it is a horrible example. We have to teach the kids abstinence is the only way to prevent the large problems of teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. I can recall that abstinence was mentioned as a side-note as the only 100% guarantee against these two problems. It is a mixed message delivered when teens are given condoms in school that are only about 60% effective, but told that abstinence is the only prevention. Abstinence is the only total prevention, so America’s schools must stop promoting ways that try to block pregnancy and STDs. Abortion is my second important topic. Adolescents are growing more and more careless in their sexual behavior and that has led to growing pregnancy rates. Many of them have decided to terminate the pregnancy and the child’s life. The physical and emotional harm that abortions cause would have to be addressed, because not many are well informed in that area. A recent talk show that had a man refusing to believe that he was the father of his girlfriend’s daughter because he “only conceives males.” It is just as ignorant to say that a child’s life may end because he or she has not been born. Educating teenagers on alternatives to abortion are the best option. In the curriculum I would inform students about centers that counsel 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’ own inner turmoil that accounts for their empathic capacities for the suffering of others. Due to their own insecure psychological positions, they can easily identify with the weak, the poor, and the oppressed victims of selfish society. So, this can alter their vote where it obscures that which is ideal. But, 18 year-old adolescents are completely capable of voting and deserve the right to vote. 6. Private, community programs established to treat juvenile delinquency should include a programs teaching communications skills. This will help the students achieve positive peer support and enhance their self-esteem and will result in significantly fewer offenders. It would include a big brother/big sister program to help emotionally disturbed teens. A strong focus will be placed on the adolescents’ family environments and relationships and assisting parents in learning more effective parenting skills. Mixing some anti-social youths with those that are pro-social would benefit adolescents struggling in social skills. These interventions are a means of altering the aggression in adolescents and thus reduce juvenile delinquency. 7. Young people are increasingly separating sexual intimacy and emotional intimacy. There are problems with adolescent relationships because they do not start from an emotional bond. Rather, they will normally start from physical attractiveness and popularity. Adolescents are drawn to each other by what they see, which can be a lower form of lust. Sexual intimacy begins after the lust has built up to high levels. They engage in sexual activity because of the encouragement from television, radio, school, and peers. The more the sexual boundaries are stretched, the further they will want to go. During all this the couples’ emotional intimacy may be trying to catch up or may be non-existent. This frequent sexual activity and absent emotional sharing leads to an anti-social behavior between couples. They will begin to feel that you do not need love to have sex; and that love in a sexual relationship is a hard find. But they are convinced that sexual intimacy is necessary in their relationships. If and when these relationships break up, it poses large emotional and social problems for future relationships. To prevent this, teaching children early in adolescence to build friendships and stressing the importance of friendship in all relationships will help. Encouraging abstinence is always beneficial, for it will discourage those couples that would normally frequently engage in sexual activity. Also stress that intimate relationships with a significant other are not essential to having a good time. This can help relieve some of the pressure of peers to be in an intimate relationship, especially if the person helping is of similar age. Bibliography:

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