PREMARITAL
INTERCOURSE AND
TEENAGE PREGNANCY
The result of a study carried out in the 1940s and 1950s arose public concern on the alarming rate of both men and women getting involved in
PREMARITAL sexual intercourse, it was believed that so many people has violated the traditional norm of forbidding people to have sexual experience before marriage and has come to think that premarital sex has now been integrated in to the family structures
The evaluation of the problem
shows that the numbers of men having sexual intercourse before marriage has not increased in the last three generations, and that the patronage of prostitutes has also decreased, but more premarital intercourse is taking place between about to married couples. Statistics shows that 50% of women had intercourse before they, but only with their future husband.
In the 1960s and 1970s there are more public discussion of sexual matters, including unwanted pregnancy for teenager and abortion. This has made many people to become open minded about their sexual life. By the 1980s, however, the mass media made us aware off AIDS and began to the seriousness of the AIDS problem and other sexual transmitted disease.
In the 1980s records shows that adolescents on the average have their first sexual experience as early as 16.2 years for
girls and 15.7 years for boys, but confirm their activities to one partner alone. Research also shows that about 80% of unmarried 18 years old male and 25% of unmarried 19 years old female experience orgasm through self manipulation.
More troubling, however, is the ineffectiveness with which female teenagers cope with complications from unprotected, when these teenagers where asked about safe sex and the use of contraceptives, 75% of black girls and 50% of white girls could not answer and had never used any form of contraceptive before, this has lead to a rise in the numbers of illegitimate teenage pregnancy and
birth in the United States, between the 1950s and 1980s about 15% of teenage birth are illegitimate, however by 1990 over 50% of teenage birth are illegitimate.
The problem could be address through proper enlightenment of the girls on the use of contraceptives, condoms, and birth control, most importantly they should be made to know that if they have protected sex they will not only put a stop to unwanted babies but also could be fighting and putting a stop to sexually transmitted disease.
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