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Sex-Violence-Abuse

Safe sex is a very important subject and should be practiced and promoted among all youth. Unsafe sex can disrupt and ruin the lives of many youth as it does every year with sexually transmitted diseases and pregnancies. Sex among youth doesn't have to be such a negative subject as long as some responsibility is put into action. To reduce the rate of teenage pregnancies, I think teenagers should be primarily informed about the consequences of sex. Kids should be educated in this area in their younger years and kept up to date on it every so often.

If teenagers were made aware of what may happen to them when or if they become pregnant, it would make abstinence a much more popular method of birth control, and other methods would also be practiced. Teenage pregnancies could also be reduced by the introduction of birth control methods and the availability of the products much easier. For example, all public bathrooms should offer condoms, especially where youth are generally present. Teenagers usually have sex when they are unaccompanied by adults, more supervision of teens could reduce the rate as well. Community and regional health clinics should offer to do workshops in schools and that way attendance could be mandatory. They should be focusing more on the negative results of sex in a serious manner, and prevent this simply by a matter of better supervision and proper information. People who have been in such situations should be used as a speaker to kids who are approaching adolescence (a teen mother) teens can relate to other youth easily, so it would be an efficient way to inform youth make the learning fun and not lectures.

To help prevent youth violence more promotion in schools should be done like bullying. On the streets there should be neighborhood watches and more security like patrolling cops or peace keepers. Teens need to know what it's like to be put in a situation where they are the one being violated so they can relate. I know that I would never beat Or hit or bully anyone because I know how that feels. It hurts. Violence is usually based around two things; "respect and confidence" Bullies bully people usually because they lack self-esteem and their way of getting some is making someone else feel bad which in turn makes them feel better. They have problems (personal usually) and they take it out on others whom they know ill be defenseless. If kids live in a violent area, I'd recommend that they take some kind of self-defense class like karate or something. If there was a form of private, free and always available help whom kids could talk to, then their issues wouldn't be subdued by violence. There are helpless but are kids aware of this. This issue comes down to advertisement again. Teens must feel comfortable doing so and as long as our society is so judgmental and portrays that you must have this and that and other materialistic items and a perfect nose, straight hair and that brand name, it may be impossible.

An experience I had with bullying was with two girls. Both of these girls were hockey players and tough. They didn't do that great in school and for some reason one day they began to threaten me. After lots of name calling and pranks and me crying, it all boiled down to an obstacle of jealousy. One girl was envious of my marks; clothes and relationships with people especially my boyfriend. She felt I was in her way and she tried to deal with it wit abuse (not the best decision). Kids today lack self-esteem, self-respect and motivation. Teens don't know how to deal with their problems so the adults (parents) in their lives should make sure that they can talk and relate with their kids.