The Aspen Education Group - 1185 Words

Review of the Literature The Aspen education group in conjunction with The American Academy of Pediatrics, reported that 36.9 percent of 14-year-olds have engaged in sexual intercourse. This equates to more than one out of three teenagers being involved in sexual behavior. It was also reported from this organization that high school youth were reported to have been sexually active at a percentage of 66.4%. This is alarming and reflects the fact that teenagers are sexual active at extremely high rates. The public have been made known to the fact by government sponsored initiatives that sexual activity amongst youth has steadily increased over the past thirty years. Teenagers have an intense interest†¦show more content†¦Being correctly educated comes in the form of proper contraceptive measures such as condom use, birth control, or just abstaining from sex period. An author by the name of Dr. Bogle, wrote a book about the changing culture of teenage hooking up. Hooking up in the 60s used to be define d as making out. â€Å"Hooking Up: Sex, Dating and Relationships on Campus† (N.Y.U. Press, 2008) stated that dating rules between teenagers began to change in the 1960s. After this time what could be seen as a normality with teen dating swiftly and significantly changed. Today, dating and hooking up is totally different from what some parents and grandparents defined as dating and hooking up. The birth rate among teenagers in the United States rose three percent in 2006. This was reported as the first such increase since 1991. Two-thirds of the 65 million people living with incurable diseases are aged between 15 and 24. The most common STD is the Human Papillomavirus, Human Papillomavirus alone leads 90 percent of all cervical cancers (CDC). The vast majority of teenage pregnancies are unplanned and unwanted according to the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy. This is disturbing because we have children being born into homes were the parents are still growing up and there is a lack of job stability, and education. Pregnancy puts teenagers in a likely percentile of not