Sex education in public schools is a hot subject full of controversy right now in the USA. The split comes to the question of whether abstinence-only or comprehensive sex education is the way to go for today's teens. The controversy comes from a parent's belief that having a talk about sex with their children will be awkward or that their teens will exhibit risky behavior with their knowledge of sex, and as religion being a heavy influence in America premarital sex is not seen with acceptance. Research
eighty two percent (82%) of them are actually unintended pregnancies. There are a number of factors that contribute to pregnancy in teens. Livestrong.com lists some of the causes for teenage pregnancy as being; peer pressure, lack of proper sex education, substance abuse, mainly alcohol, the movie industry, the media’s glamorization of pregnancy, sexual abuse or rape and lack of parental supervision. It should also be noted that because of the young age that these teenage girls become pregnant,
Woman: God’s second mistake? Friedrich Nietzsche, a German philosopher, who regarded ‘thirst for power’ as the sole driving force of all human actions, has many a one-liners to his credit. ‘Woman was God’s second mistake’, he declared. Unmindful of the reactionary scathing criticism and shrill abuses he invited for himself, especially from the ever-irritable feminist brigade. The fact and belief that God never ever commits a mistake, brings Nietzsche’s proclamation dashingly down into the dust bin