e girl is pressured into having sex because it is supposedly love, and then she ends up pregnant, she will then realize the importance of protected sex. But by then, it will be too late. A baby is on the way, when the girl is still a child herself. It is a shame to see society in a place where all the morals have vanished like time. Not only does this effect the statistics on teenage pregnancy, but once the girl realizes that she can’t be responsible enough to raise a baby, she probably will decide to have an abortion, which will also increase the number of abortions per year. If the programs covered how it is to have a baby at such an early age, the number of pregnancies and abortions might also decline tremendously. Not only are sexually transmitted diseases, teen pregnancy and abortion the main risk of having unprotected sex, but cancer is also. In young girls, cervical cancer can occur if sexual intercourse takes place at an extremely earlier age. Cervical cancer and testicular cancer, which is found in males, can also be a result of a sexually transmitted disease. The dangers of these cancers are very serious. For women and men alike, both cancers can prevent reproduction, and may even be life threatening. (10.Woznicki, Katrina. Some Girls Need Sex Ed. Earlier; 1999) In the long run, it would pay a teenager to think more than twice about having sexual intercourse, especially when the consequences could ruin their life.Most girls and boys that are starting high school, that are already sexually active, obviously have not been told about ways to stay abstinent. It still isn’t too late for them to make the choice to sustain from sex until marriage, and it defiantly isn’t too late for those students who are still confused about if the want to have sexual intercourse or wait. Those are the main two reasons that ways to stay abstinent should also be covered in school. Teachers could discuss peer pressure towards sex, an...
