7. Teenage Motherhood, Responsibility, and Docile Female

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda Lam
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Health ◽  
Sexual Activity ◽  
Sex Education ◽  
Teenage Pregnancy ◽  
Structural Factors ◽  
Education Curriculum ◽  
Female Bodies ◽  
Sex Education Curriculum ◽  
Abstinence Only ◽  
Health Experts

This research paper critiques the harmful dominant discourse in America which posits that teenage mothers are “unfit” parents because they bore a child outside the confines of heterosexuality, monogamy, marriage, and middle-class status. Based on secondary research, the paper uses a Foucauldian feminist perspective to argue that the negative discourse around teenage pregnancy and motherhood reified by America’s abstinence-only sex education curriculum and advice from sexual health experts seeks to produce docile female bodies. America’s abstinence-only sex education curriculum promotes gender differences in bodily movements whereby female sexual activity is demonized while male sexual activity is normalized. Sexual health experts also morally judge the teenage mother’s actions under the guise of professional knowledge, and fail to recognize the structural factors that may have contributed to teenage pregnancy as a means to produce docile female bodies. Additionally, both America’s abstinence-only sex education curriculum and sexual health experts absolve the teenage father of any responsibility. By challenging the sex education curriculum and sexual health experts, the power of language and discourse of authorities in framing what they consider to be a social problem will be brought to light.

scholarly journals Sex Education Correlating with STI Rates Througout Counties in Florida

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lilliana Moran ◽  
Ida Williams
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Sexually Transmitted Diseases ◽  
Sex Education ◽  
Orange County ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Education Curriculum ◽  
Sexually Transmitted ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Sex Education Curriculum ◽  
Abstinence Only

This study’s goal was to discover the impact that varying types of high school sex education curriculums had on the rate of which their alumni ages 19-27 in 2018 contracted bacterial sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) throughout counties in Florida. The study was able to establish results that communicated which programs were most effective in preventing the transmission of STDs in comparison to the ones that were least effective. A meta-analysis of the amount of bacterial STD cases in each of four different counties in Florida as well as their corresponding sex education curriculum was used to discover the paper’s outcome. The different curriculums analyzed in this paper include abstinence-only, abstinence-plus, and comprehensive. Abstinence-only based programs teach students that refraining from all sexual activity until marriage is the sole moral way of preventing STD transmission and generally does not go over other methods of contraceptives. Abstinence-Plus programs teach students about methods of contraception and how to prevent STDs, but still preach that remaining abstinent is the correct and moral route to go down. The results showed that Lafayette County and Martin County had the least amount of bacterial STD cases among their alumni ages 19-27 yet used the most strict program (abstinence-only), Orange County had the most amount of bacterial STD cases among their alumni and used the second most strict program(abstinence-plus), and Polk County’s amount of bacterial STD cases fell under Orange County but above Lafayette County and Martin County; however they used the least strict program (comprehensive).

Assessment of a medical student led sex education curriculum for at risk US 9th graders aged 14–15 years

Sex Education ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 110-117
Author(s):  
Sophia Yang ◽  
Miriam Mcquade ◽  
Marissa Lovio ◽  
Marie-Claire Leaf ◽  
Kathryn Barron ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Medical Student ◽  
Sex Education ◽  
Education Curriculum ◽  
Sex Education Curriculum

scholarly journals Nigerian secondary school adolescents’ perspective on abstinence-only sexual education as an effective tool for promotion of sexual health

F1000Research ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 86
Author(s):  
Mfrekemfon P Inyang ◽  
Obonganyie P Inyang
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Sexual Health ◽  
Sex Education ◽  
Survey Design ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Education Programme ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
Sexual Education ◽  
Preparedness For Practice ◽  
Abstinence Only

The success of any type of sexual education programme depends on the knowledge and preparedness for practice by adolescents. A recent study has found that an ‘abstinence-only’ sexual education programme is effective in reducing sexual activity among adolescents. Knowledge of abstinence-only sexual education and preparedness for practice as an effective tool for promotion of sexual health among Nigerian secondary school adolescents was studied. An analytic descriptive survey design was used for the study. The research population comprised of all public secondary schools in three southern geopolitical zones of the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria. A multistage sampling technique was used to select 2020 senior secondary school (SS1-SS3) students as sample for the study. A partially self-designed and partially adapted questionnaire from an 'abstinence-only versus comprehensive sex education' debate, from debatepedia (http://wiki.idebate.org/), entitled 'Questionnaire on Nigerian Secondary School Adolescents’ Perspective on Abstinence-Only Sexual Education (QNSSAPAOSE)' was used in eliciting information from respondents. Hypotheses were formulated and tested. Frequency counts, percentage and Pearson Product Moment Correlation were used in analysing data. A greater proportion of secondary school adolescents in this study lacked knowledge of sexual education. About 80% of the respondents could not define sexual education. The general perspective on abstinence-only sexual education was negative, as revealed by the larger number of respondents who demonstrated unwillingness to practice abstinence-only sexual education. Specifically, of those who responded in favour of abstinence-only sexual education, the youngest group of adolescents (11-13 years) and the male respondents were more likely to accept this type of education than the other groups. Poor knowledge of sexual education could be responsible for unwillingness to practice abstinence-only sexual education. Sexual education should, therefore, be introduced into the secondary school curriculum and taught by well-prepared teachers to enable an informed decision on practice.

‘Is this normal?’

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-168
Author(s):  
Georgia Carr
Keyword(s):  
Sex Education ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Informal Education ◽  
Direct Interaction ◽  
Education Curriculum ◽  
Confidential Information ◽  
Corpus Study ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Sex Education Curriculum

Abstract To properly understand sex education, it is important to consider the informal education that takes place outside the classroom. Students often seek out other resources to supplement the education they receive in school, especially to cover topics which are absent or underdeveloped in the formal sex education curriculum. A key resource for this, especially among young women, is the magazine advice column. Advice columns create a direct interaction between the reader and the magazine and encourage the disclosure of intimate, confidential information, making them a ready medium for the production and consumption of sex education. This study uses the advice columns in Dolly, a popular Australian magazine, to investigate adolescents’ concerns about normality. This research is based on a corpus of 88,000 words, with data from advice columns published 20 years apart (mid-1990s and mid-2010s), which is analyzed using keywords and concordancing. This is a unique corpus study in that it considers similarity as well as difference in the data by investigating the recurring concern with normality that is evident in both decades of the corpus.

Epilogue

2021 ◽  
pp. 241-254
Author(s):  
Kristy L. Slominski
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Activity ◽  
Sex Education ◽  
Sexuality Education ◽  
Federal Funding ◽  
Barack Obama ◽  
Religious Influence ◽  
George Bush ◽  
Full Swing ◽  
Abstinence Only ◽  
Religious Actors

The epilogue discusses the enormous power of recent presidential administrations to mold sex education through federal funding initiatives. Since 1996, the country has seen the pendulum in full swing, from the increase in abstinence-only support under President George Bush, to advancement of comprehensive sexuality education under President Barack Obama, to serious efforts to shift funds toward abstinence-only programs under current President Donald Trump. The legacies of religious sex educators established select terms of these discussions, especially in portrayals of what is at stake. Throughout this history, religious people have proven that the concept of morality could be used to expand discourses of sexuality beyond physical considerations, to limit these discussions to the restriction of sexual activity, or, in most cases, both. Contrary to narratives that pit secular sex education against religious actors, religious influence has been and continues to be both multidimensional and pervasive in the development of sex education.

Evaluation of Trained Teachers' Implementation of a Sex Education Curriculum

1997 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 103-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marlene K. Tappe ◽  
Regina A. Galer-Unti ◽  
Kelley C. Bailey
Keyword(s):  
Sex Education ◽  
Education Curriculum ◽  
Trained Teachers ◽  
Sex Education Curriculum

Impact Evaluation of Facts & Feelings: A Home-Based Video Sex Education Curriculum

1993 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 392 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brent C. Miller ◽  
Maria C. Norton ◽  
Glen O. Jenson ◽  
Thomas R. Lee ◽  
Cynthia Christopherson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sex Education ◽  
Impact Evaluation ◽  
Education Curriculum ◽  
Home Based ◽  
Sex Education Curriculum
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