Teenage Pregnancy In Schools

Teenage pregnancy is one of the social ills among modern societies and is a relatively alarming situation in worldwide. The increase in teen pregnancy among unmarried women has for a long time been a cause of concern among experts. It has been estimated that about sixteen millions of teenage girls between ranges of fifteen to nineteen years old give birth annually, particularly in low and middle income countries (WHO 2016). This places an enormous stress on the economy as a whole because teen pregnancy increases the dropouts of students from schools which in turn results in loss of earnings, income taxes and productivity of a country (Ressler 2012). Thus, schools should play a central role in implementing an effective sex health education to

As a part of sexuality and relationship education, students are taught on necessary relationship skills before they become sexually active at an earlier age. Students acquire knowledge on how improve about intimacy and create healthy boundaries with their opposite gender relationships. They also learn about the importance of their personal space in a relationship and the personal space of others as well as the distance between the opposite sexes to control sexual drive and avoid premarital sexual relationships. Hence, students obtain a comprehensive set of basic individual values as personal superintendent principles to make wiser decision in everyday part of their life. Sex education aids teenagers to heighten their understanding of themselves biologically and prepare them to face the real world to avoid falling victim to internet or sexual predators (Global Poverty Project 2014). It also empowers them to defend or take an action when their personal boundaries are being violated upon them or on their peers. Through learning vigorous sexuality expressions and consent, students will learn more about the types of sexual perversions that can be harmful for them. For instance, they discuss on the most prevalent problems and the risks of social media. In addition, sex education teaches students about

Providing an effective sex health education programs in schools, teenagers will learn about several types’ transmission of STD which helps to spread awareness and motivate them on abstinence until marriage. With improved access to sex education, there are great possibilities in scattering the myths that are interrelated with sex and widens their horizon which aids to mitigate the rate of unintended pregnancies among the teenagers. Another important positive aspect of sex education which was identified is to build strong relationships and empowerment against sexual violence. It has been argued that parents are the most likely to be the appropriate person to impart sex education to their children in the earlier stages at home which will help ease to influence the cognitive development and the perplexity of a child. Finally, the efficacy of sexuality education programs in schools is, undoubtedly since few countries can point a significant improvement after the implementation of this meaningful programme. In short, although there are many parts of developing world, such as Sub-Saharan Africa, where the birth rate to unmarried women are remain highest, lower rate of teen pregnancies in developing countries are achieved through a comprehensive sex health education programs in