SOCIOL 103 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Abortion-Rights Movements, Combined Oral Contraceptive Pill, Premarital Sex
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Abstinence-plus approach: curriculum that urges students to wait to have sex but it also teaches them about birth control and condoms. Heterosexuality today: attitudes and behavior: americans are divided and united on certain sexual issues. They also differ on how much sex they have and how varied it is. Attitudes: americans almost unanimously think that adultery and teenage sex are wrong but they are fairly evenly split on whether premarital sex is wrong. 9. 2 teenage sex and pregnancy: increase in teenage sex caused concern because it greatly increased the risk of teenage pregnancy and it greatly increased the risk of getting hiv and other stds. Teenage sexual activity: greater than other western democracies, percent of sexually active teens has fallen but is still high, top reason for both sexes for not having sex is religion and morals. The same difference holds for the provision of contraceptives by planned parenthood and other agencies and organizations.
