Texas State and Local Government deals greatly with teen birth rate. The statistics shown by The Kids Count and the study of children's health are shocking. It is hard to take in but I don't see it as surprising. Younger girls now a days don't view sexual intercourse as something risky but rather something to do or to fit in with. As our counts of teen birth rates keep rising, what is making the other states decline? What is their State and Local Governments doing differently? Other than our Local Governments preaching abstinence, it is ultimatley up to the parents to pass on their words of wisdom, hoping their children take it seriously. Texas has set up programs that are required in school to teach, hoping the information of how risky it is to be having intercouse at such a young age can affect the rest of their lives. However, all these measures that Texas Government is doing to prevent teen pregnancy might be a mistake; maybe the government's strong emphasis on teaching abstinence pushed many over the edge. Some teens just don't want to listen. In the article a professor from The University of Texas Health Science Center stresses that the teaching of sexual health and development should be done before high school, the prime years of peer pressure. I believe that Texas's State and Local Governments have done all they can do, it is up to the kid's parents now.
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Thursday, July 26, 2007
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Solid arguments, nice critique of current policy. Improve your presentation by: 1) watching for spelling and grammar errors; 2) making the links to other articles clearer, especially if you're quoting or referring to them. For instance, you could have made an embedded link to The Kids Count and directly (and obviously) the the DMN article.
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