The media has negative effect on the growing trend of teenage pregnancy.The TV shows and celebrities are sending a message to young girls that being pregnant as a teenager isn't that bad. In many cases, many girls aren't showed the opposite end of the issue with the consequences of having children at a young age. As we have discussed, many teens are not prepared to be a parent. The "glamorization" of teen pregnancy by the media has had a negative effect on teens today and has changed the views of many peole in society. Since teen pregnancy is becoming more accepted in society, more young people are taking advantage of it.
Strong education and access to birth control is an important antidote to the raise of teen pregnancy rates. Schools should be teaching teens about safe sex. Clearly preaching abstinence is not working, so instead of trying to prevent sex all together we should be trying to keep teen pregnancy rates and STD rates down. A sex-seducation program that includes abstinence as well as safe preventatives and the consequences of unsafe sex, would be more essential for teens. The best way to avoid these things is to not have sex at all but, in high schools today the odds are that AT LEAST one student is having sex, and if teaching about protection can help just one teen avoid getting pregnant then it's definitely worth it.
Do you have any final thoughts on the information that was presented to you this week?
Has the information changed your view of teenage pregnancy?
Becca Jo, Charda, Courtney, Hiroyo, Rebecca
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I'm sorry to post so late, but having everyone elses' opinions and insight has been really enjoyable to read. I thought you looked exstensively at all the different aspects of Teen pregnancy and covered a lot of information.
ReplyDeleteWhat I found to be the most interesting bit of this topic was the media's influence on teen pregnancies. It's as if the media displays in some ways (MTV, VH1, reality TV) young, premiscuous, multi-partnered sex as a cool thing- almost promoting the ideology of the "hook-up" culture without following through and showing the negative consequences of such behavior. However, on the flip side, it seems that as of recent, more and more media images are showing young males and females the true hardships of pregnancy and consequences of sex. These contradicting messages have very powerful influence over society's behavior and perspectives about social norms.
I think there has been a real strong shift to better the sex education for the youth and I hope that we, as a responsible society, continue to push for sex education to empower our youth to make safe and informed decisions.