Contraceptives and the Teenage User

Contraceptives and teenagers have been discussing youth and contraceptive problems for many years. Some people think that giving birth control pills and even allowing teenagers to buy contraceptives will only promote pre-marital sex. However, this attitude denies the simple fact that adolescent sex before adolescence is common in all ages. It happens before the emergence of effective contraceptives and despite the widespread promotion of intractable diseases such as AIDS it is still present and regardless of how public policy limits access to contraceptives It will continue to exist.

What complicates the problem of persuading adolescent children to use contraceptives is a discussion as to whether oral contraceptives (OC) are suitable contraceptive choices for adolescent children. A summary of the pros and cons offered by family planners and American public is presented. Discussion on people providing OC to adolescent youth suggests that 1) puberty youth can use OC without parental consent that could lead to medical legal problems, 2) prove OC There is no sexual intercourse 3) Some young people too unreliable, too careless, can not accept OC properly, 4) teenagers using OC, sex with more partners It may be more free to do.

Among sexually experienced young people, 78% of adolescents and 85% of adolescent men use contraceptive drugs in their first sexual activity; 86% and 93% of these same women and men aged last time The contraceptive measures were used in the process of sexual activity. 54% of young women in the United States are drug dependent, but male condom is the most common way of action for the first time. Young Americans are not sexually active in people in other developed countries, but they have little knowledge about contraception and safe sex. As of 2006, only 20 states need sex education at school, only 10 provinces need information on contraception. Overall, less than 10% of American students receive sex education, such as abortion prevention, homosexuality, interpersonal relationship, pregnancy, special reports on sexually transmitted diseases. During the 1990s and early 2000s, abstinence education was used in most areas in the United States.