What are some of the risk factors associated with sexual activity during adolesc

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What are some of the risk factors associated with sexual activity during adolescence and potential consequences?

What are some of the community-based programs that provide services to address premarital sex in adolescence? In your opinion, are these effective? Support your response.

Complete the Option 2 written assignment by answering the Seminar topics. Your responses should be composed in complete sentences and paragraphs and be 200–250 words in length. You should create your Seminar responses in MS Word making sure to follow APA format and cite all references used. Save your answers and submit them to the Unit 4

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Some of the risks associated with sexual activity during adoloscence are given below:

Use of modern contraceptives is very low among adoloscents—Among unmarried sexually active adolescents in contraceptive use is relatively low. Unmet need for contraception, or nonuse of methods despite the desire to limit births or delay them for at least two years, is high among unmarried adolescents in most countries. In comparison, 10–31% of unmarried adolescents in Latin America are considered to have unmet need.

As expected, unmet need among married adolescents is lower, but still substantial. Recent evidence suggests that in Sub-Saharan Africa, and in South and South East Asia, more than 20% of 15–19-year-old women have been pregnant; although a majority of these women are married, more than 10% of adolescent pregnancies in the Demo-cratic Republic of Congo, Madagascar, Mozambique and Zambia are nonmarital; while in the rest of Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America, nonmarital pregnancy rates are below 10%.16

Adolescents have unprotected sex for a multitude of reasons.

Within or outside of marriage, young women may feel pressure to prove their fertility. Other young people may engage in unprotected sex because they have not considered contraception, fear possible side effects, are:

a) Evidence from Latin America suggests that condom use at last sex has increased among adolescents, but levels of use are still not sufficient to substantially reduce the spread of HIV.

b) misinformed about the risk of pregnancy or

c) STIs posed by unprotected sexor

d) are more concerned with the safety of condoms than the safety of an unintended pregnancy.

Some of the community based programs that provide services ot address premartial sex in adoloscence:

The welfare law enacted in 1996 contained numerous provisions designed to reduce teen or out-of-wedlock childbearing including:

In my opinion, these are effective to some extent but the best solution is to give them a better source of entertaining themselves. It may be social service, Meditation or a deep relation with oneself. This will be a permanent solition however, it will take longer time to work.

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